Corrections and Other Stuff

For those of you who might not know one of the things we love to do most is work with kids. Cornelia's passion is preschool aged kids and mine is youth kids. It's so rewarding to impact lives at such a critical age.



Since leaving Calvary Baptist Church, I have been helping my good friend Richard King with his youth group on Wednesday nights. The number of kids coming to MPFBC Youth has really increased this year. I estimated the attendance to be around 75 last night. It's really good for me to continue to work with youth as it was my passion for almost 20 years. Correction still is a passion of mine!!

Yesterday I was back over at Villas Nueva talking with Michelle the manager about upcoming plans for our work there. We were blessed to find out that we might have an intern coming to work with us. If it works out we will be able to do our homework help program after all. For safety and other reasons we are mandated to have two people while working with children. One can never be too careful these days if you know what I mean.



I had mentioned to you previously about CIA weekend and church groups coming to do a block party for us this Saturday. That information was wrong. The day they are coming is actually this Sunday for 1:30 to 4:30 pm. Sorry for the mis-communication. Also we were trying to nail down a date for a Christmas party for the kids.



Finally it was good to know that Tim Cummins finally got GAS yesterday! NOT all of us can afford to run premium in our cars. God is good...AMEN?

We love you all!

Tuesday Part 2

This Saturday we will be hosting CIA weekend at Villas Nueva. Churches In Action is an outreach effort of several denominations of evangelicals designed to operate as a blitz. This event is sponsored by Unite! an organization geared toward bringing churches of all denominations together for the greater good. The time for this event will be 1:30 to 4:30.

Saturday the Asian Rice Festival will be held at Carter Oaks Shopping Center. This event will pull in several hundred Asians for different Far East countries. If you are the evangelistic type this would probably be a great witnessing event.

One of our partners agreed to host a Christmas Party for our families at Villas. They will come in to work and will supply everything including gifts for the kids. We sure do appreciate them.

This evening we had a Chile cook off oat our house. It was a great time with the family.

We mailed out our "news letter" today. We hope all of you that is on our mail-out list will enjoy it. If you would like to be included in our mail-out, please email us at keithandcornelia@gmail.com. Include you name, address, and email address.

We Love You All!!!

Monday...News Letter Day

Yesterday was news letter day. We have to design, print, fold and stuff around 200 copies for distribution. I know that for some of you corporate marketing types you are saying, whats the big deal? Well being a fledgling new ministry we don't have the luxury of a support team to do all the manual stuff. We have to take it on ourselves to accomplish each segment of the process. But I want you all to know that we consider it a labor of love because as we accomplish each task we are reminded of your support. Cornelia and I check and see your individual name and we are reminded of your friendship and confidence in our ability to serve Jesus. We consider ourselves truly blessed to have you as our friends.

More to come later today!!!!

Norcross Work

Tim and I had a great meeting yesterday to brain storm more effective ways to reach out. We are having trouble getting volunteers for homework help, so we have decided to pursue other options for now. We are looking at more of a sport oriented track or offering other alternatives such as guitar lessons for all ages.

We have a policy that no one is allowed to work with kids alone. So You understand why we Will need to put the brakes on the the "homework help" for now.

If any one fells led to come in to help us two days a week for 3:30 to 5:00 pm please contact us at keithandcornelia@gmail.com .

Cornelia is still working an extra job for now. As soon as we can get our ministry fully funded she will be able to resume her regular missionary duties. If you would like to give you can do so by clicking on the donate button located to the left of this text.

We appreciate you team!

Community Development

We believe that Community Development, next to sharing Jesus, is one of the very most important aspects of missionary work. We are constantly trying to improve all aspects of neighborhoods were we work. This can be a tough job at times because in many cases the people who live there really don't want to improve. But we do.

We have been working this week to get programs re-established at Villas Nueva. With all the renovations and restructuring that is going on it's been quite difficult to get the management motivated behind our programs. They want us there, but they are really very busy with all the changes they are making.

Tomorrow Tim and I will be meeting to work on our strategy and maybe also work with the management to back our programs. This will only benefit them in the long run.

Lastly, we are still facing challenges in our family. Please pray that God will help us work through a few things and come out the better for it on the other side.

We love you all!!!

Wow what a Weekend!!!

I just wanted to catch you all up. Friday Cornelia had lunch with our partners David Crews. If you don't know David he is not only one of my good friends, but he is also a great accountability partner for Cornelia and I. We also appreciate his support to our ministry as well.

Spent the rest of the afternoon doing administrative work.

Jars of Clay

Saturday afternoon we attended the Music Builds Tour with guest stars Jars of Clay, Robert Randolff and the Family Band, Swithfoot, and Third Day. We acquired these tickets six months ago and considered selling them several times. We are sure glad we didn't! This was probably one of the best concerts that I've been to in years. All the groups really glorified Jesus through music and personal testimony. The proceeds are going to "Habitat for Humanity."

John Forman of Switchfoot

Kaitlyn got the thrill of her life and got to shake hands with one of her very favorite singers John Forman of Switchfoot. She was so excited!!!

This morning we attended North Point Community Church. Andy Stanley is the pastor there. Andy preached the last sermon of a series that he has been working through this quarter. His message was on "Pivotal Circumstances" in each Christian's life. He used the passage out of Mark about Jesus raising Lazurus from the dead and the pivotal reaction of each characters in the scripture. Andy is really a great communicator and has a God given talent for making his points simple to understand and relational to life. I think each of us in the Harrell family saw ourselves in the words of the characters in the scripture.

UNITE!!!!

This morning I meet with one of my good friends Mark Whitley. Mark is the athletic director for Parkview H.S. where my daughter attends. He leads the largest SS Class at our church. We discussed how his class could get involves in outreach in my mission territory. I asked him to do a Christmas party for the kids at Villas Nueva in December (never to early to get started). He agreed in part but wanted to discuss the possibilities with his class. I have a sneaky suspicion that they will agree to do it. We also discuss other outreach projects and methods that would get the church at large more involved in reaching out. That's "good stuff."




I attended my first Unite meeting and had the opportunity to sit with one of our partners Matt Johns. Matt is director of the mission work in Peach Tree Corners. We don't see each other very often and it was good to get to know each other better and also compare notes about mission work. Sorry I didn't get a photo of him.

Today's topic was geared toward "disaster preparedness." In light of this years hurricane season, floods, and tornadoes it was good to brush up on agencies and mission organizations called by good to help people in time of need.

One of our speakers was Kathy Haworth from the American Red Cross. She spoke of Hurricane Katrina and how touched the American public was during the disaster and the pouring out of donations, resources, and time. In contrast, she also spoke of the events at Galveston, Texas last week and the almost callous reaction by people. Kathy also told us that the agency is broke and has no money to respond. Currently the RC is involved in an aggressive campaign to raise money and volunteers. Kathy also spoke of the need for shelter operators and explained how we could get involved in training and leadership.

We also heard from Harvey Anderson director of Home Repair Ministries. His organization has been instrumental in replacing hundreds of homes in Bay Saint Louis Mississippi. He continually tries to reproduce himself with other people who have a passion like his.

Unite is a good concept designed to link churches form all denominations together for the greater good of our Lord Jesus. Don't shoot me...but its good to know that the Southern Baptist are not the only show in town.

Late this afternoon I went with Kaitlyn to help pick out her Senior Class ring. She was sooooo excited and I was too.

We Love You all!!!