The family is all fine. My oldest daughter and her husband at still in Lolo, MT. My second daughter and her girls are in Ft. Scott, KS and my youngest and her family are in Colorado, Springs. My granddaughter and great granddaughter are also in Ft. Scott. My oldest grandson is in Iraq.

I have been busy. I am rewriting the Tabernacle Bible study and have just completed my first novel for children. I submitted that manuscript last Friday.

This lat december I fell and broke my elbow. It was bad enough I needed an articifical one. It was been most painful and very difficult to not have use of my right hand. Things are better and getting better every day. We have seen a great blessing in the healing. The doctors are totally surprised at the movement I have. They were sure Iwould be very limited and God has seen to it that I have lost no motion or movement of my arm at all. I still need to gain strength in it, but that is just a matter of time.

Because of the novel and my arm, I put my speaking ministry on hold. I am now getting things ready to resume what God has called and prepared me to do.

I do have several prayer requests (1) That the re-start ministry will go well. (2) That the novel will be published. (3) That the re-writing of the Tabernacle goes well. (3) Grant’s safety in Iraq. (4) And that God’s Will will be done in all my endeavors. Micah 6:8

Blessings, Carol      

I spoke at the Mother/Daughter Banquet at the Hiattville Methodist Church on the 10th. I was pleased to be able to be there. I spent one week each summer when I was a little girl in Hiattville. I would visit my dad’s cousin and thought it was a great adventure to be there.

We will be moving my daughter and her new family to Colorado Springs, Co in June. July will be the “Get Real Weekend,” in Rushville. Hope to see you there. In August I will be in Tulsa, OK and September will find me in Siloam Springs, Ar.   

We also plan on doing lots of traveling this summer. We probably won’t go far, even if our RV does get good gas mileage, at almost $4 a gallon it is still expensive. The first week of June, our new Smart Car is to arrive. The Smart Car is really just half a car. It does not have a back seat nor a trunk. There is room for two people and that is all. It is suppose to get 40 miles (or better) to the gallon. We are looking forward to having it.

Have a wonderful and blessed summer.

Yours for Christ,

Carol

My calender has been filling up. I am so excited about it. God is really blessing in this area. All of the ones on the schedule are ones that I am sure will be a great blessing to me. When I talk to the event planners, I can usually tel what the kind of people will be there. So far they are all going to be great. Please pray tha I will be a blessing to each one in attendance and that they will have and change in their lives from learing something God has given to me for them.  

May will be a big month for us. Our youngest daughter is getting married on the thirty-first. I will be getting two new grandchildren at the same time. Zaine is seven and Kylie is nine. The only proplem I see is that they will all be moving to Colorado Springs, Co. in June. My daughter will start her internship in September. She is just one year from getting her PHD in phycology. Pray for her as she begins all these new things in her life, all at the same time.

Contact me if I can help in any of your upcoming events. God Bless and have a great April.

Blessings,  Carol  

            This is a very busy time for us. We are having some work done on the house, as well as, closing down the garden and winterizing the RV.

            The Bible study at the Presbyterian Manor was nice. We had four lessons on “Serving.” There was a good attendance at each lesson.            Joyce Love and I have started a ladies Bible study. We meet twice a month on the first and third Tuesday of the month. We are currently studying the “Women of the Bible.” I have learned much while preparing these lessons.

            I will be speaking in Pleasanton, KS in October. I am looking forward to that.

            I am now starting to fill the calendar for next year. However, new flyers will be going out sometime in early January. At least that is my plan.

            My mother passed away in July 2006. I wrote a story about her “Last Two Quilts.” It is in an anthology that just came out in September.

              Alzheimer’s Anthology of Unconditional Love:
              The 110,000 Missourians with Alzheimer’s
Prayer Requests:

• The Ladies Bible Study

                        Continuing good attendance

                        Wisdom in preparing the lessons

• Time used wisely

                        Speaking preparations

                        Bible study preparations

                        Writing—Freelancing work

                        Conferences

                        A household to manage

            God has blessed in so many ways this summer. We are anticipating and looking forward to a great fall. I pray you will have a great one also.

Blessings,

Carol
 

            Mary Walton, the Techno Diva, designed this new site. I am very pleased with it and it looks like I will be able to maintain it myself.

            Lots have happened recently. The most important is a new great-granddaughter. Kelsie Jo is already two months old. She is beautiful, of course.  

            I will begin a Bible study at the Presbyterian Manor in July. It will be on the subject of serving and being an effective servant of the Lord. Please be in prayer that I will be an effective servant as I lead this study.

Carol

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