Kathy,

I'm praying for you and Greg, and I'm praying for your trip to Florida. I
pray that it will be a blessed trip for you and one with good felowship and
love.

God Bless you.

Love,
Pat Ferguson


At 01:26 PM 1/21/05, you wrote:
>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