Pickle Festival 2008

This past Saturday, we were able to go to the Mt. Olive Pickle Festival. For the past two years, we have rented a booth and stayed set up all day. This year we decided to just walk around the festival for a few hours. Let me say that God is so GOOD! He granted the folks here in eastern NC beautiful warm weather - which brought many people out to enjoy the festivities. We sought some releif from the heat under a shaded street corner. There was a steady flow of people walking by, so we were able to pass out many gospel tracts. We started to walk through the festival, and took notice of the booth that was set up in our normal location. The guys with Creation Science Exploration, an associate of Ken Ham's "Answer In Genesis" evangelism ministry, were there proclaiming the gospel. They had dinosaur fossils and replicas of Noah's Ark. It was very encouraging to see them there talking of the authority of God's Word!! And they were very joyful at this news too. :) We continued to walk through the festival and circled back around to our shaded corner. Tony decided to get his sandwich board out of the car. We went to a quieter part of the festival and Tony was able to do some open air preaching. Many people complimented the sign and came up to offer encouragment. At one point, I noticed a young boy walking by with a Living Waters million dollar bill in his hand. I asked him where he got that from and he pointed us toward the Spud Bag booth (you should check out his website; there are lots of really neat links there - and the pancakes are really comfortable). The founder was originally going to be set up at the Fayetteville Dogwood Festival, but because of their ruling stating that no religious organizations could take part in the festival, he instead decided to come to the pickle festival. And he was there passing out gospel tracts - very cool!! We were also dill-lighted to see Mark Hooks and his family out there passing out tracts as well! It's always encouraging to see other Christians partaking in the great commission!

Neil & Laura Warner

This was a much anticipated event!!! :) And it was absolutely BEAUTIFUL!

*Connecticut*

God's Plans

This past weekend we had planned on joining some fellow believers at the Cherry Blossum festival and parade in DC to distribute gospel tracts and proclaim the everlasting gospel to those that would listen. But God had other plans. The trip was cancelled due to all the storms that were scheduled to pass through the area. So, Tony & I decided to surprise our dear brother Bill Legg at the indoor Fayetteville Flea Market. He has always been such an encouragment to me!! He currently has a booth at the flea market set up every Friday-Sunday and has had some incredible encounters there! It's amazing to see how God is working through him. So anyway, we surprised him and he was so glad to see us. He said that he had really been feeling down that day; he was there by himself and the traffic was really slow. He was actually thinking about closing up early. Isn't it amazing how God directed us to go to the flea market. AWESOME!! :) :) So we ended up staying at the flea market until about 5pm. We had a really good encounter with three young men; they were between the ages of 17-19. They stayed and talked with us for about 45 minutes and Tony prayed over them before they left. They were very grateful for the conversation and said that they had a lot to think about. Afterwards we went to eat some dinner and then said our goodbyes. :)

***********God is good!!!***********

Nathan & Jessica Black

We were able to travel to attend the marriage of Nathan & Jessica, and what a beautiful, God-glorifying ceremony it was!! :)

Matthew - 22

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATTHEW

*Pizza Hut*

Last night there were no Guevremont's scheduled to work at Sam's Club. ;) So dad treated us all to Pizza Hut. I praise God for my family!!