Kathy, praying God will bless at the conference.  Maybe it will be a time
to make some friendships with other pastor's wives that you wouldn't be able
to in Mayne.  Who knows?

Just curious.  What's the Alpha Program?

JulieMelton
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:26 PM
Subject: Where Kathy is!


> Hi Guys,
>         I'm just letting you know that it may be a bit quiet from your one
> and
> only Maine contributor for a few days.  I'm letting you know now because,
> who knows when I will get a chance on the computer again.  I will be
> leaving early Monday Morning for a pastors' wives conference in
> Florida.  To be truthful, I'm not really looking forward to it.  I'm not
> really into a bunch of ladies getting together to get lectured at and all
> that kind of thing, but it is a gift from the church and it shows a lot of
> care and love on their part, so I am going.  Gee, who knows, it might
> actually be good for me.
>         I will return home next Friday evening around 10:30 and then we
> plan to
> leave on Sunday Afternoon for Connecticut with Chris.  I continue to be
> amazed at how the Lord continues to remove obstacles for this move in our
> lives.  The school and the court ordered family counselor have given us
> their blessing, so to speak and Chris's employer has also agreed to hold
> Chris's job open for him for  when he returns.  Chris has been behaving
> better lately, but this often happens before a new counseling approach is
> begun.  He did the same when we were seeing a counselor over a year ago so
> we don't really believe that he is reformed.  In fact, I overheard him
> wishing  that he could get hi while he was talking on the phone the other
> day.  Unfortunately, pot is probably like alcohol, a desireable feeling
> that you just have to say "NO," to because it really isn't good for you.
>         Matt has been given another try at Calvin.  He is on what is
> called
> academic detention which means that he can only take twelve hours of
> academics and work twelve hours a week and he needs to get at least a C in
> all of his classes, but as we know, the school work was never the problem,
> the time management was, so Matt should be easily able to fulfill the
> requirements that the college is asking of him, if he just puts his school
> work first.
>         Hey, I'd appreciate it too if you could keep Greg and me in prayer
> because
> beginning tonight, we will be offering the ALPHA program in our home.
> This
> will be every Friday until the Friday after Easter.  It could be really
> lively too.  If all the people come who are supposed to, we may have a
> person from a Jehovah's witness background and a couple of inactive
> Catholics.  I just needed something like this because i didn't have enough
> stress in my life.  Actually, it feels good to be doing something like
> this
> rather than facing my family problems full time.  Oh, I just pray for
> blessing on the ministry for God's glory and that those in the darkness
> will be drawn to His light and eagerly seek His face.
> God bless Guys!
> Kathy
>