CIA part 2

Yesterday at VN our mission group was a no show. About thirty kids had came with their parents and were excited about the fiesta!!! But as time passed no one came and we began to wonder WHY? I had left my cell phone at home so I had no way of calling any to see why. We were all kind of sad. Sampson my dog was sad too.

So to pass the time we decided to play games with the kids (the parents bugged out and went back home). One of the kids had a wiffle ball kit left over from the summer program. He said ...do you want me to go get it? I said yes go get it.

So we played unorganized baseball for a while and then some soccer. Cornelia decided to go back home to retrieve my cell phone and when she came back she told me the group was not coming. Bummer!!! No one was smiling...SOOO we decided to just hang out with our kids and be open to anything they wanted to do. Of course the older boys decided to play hardcore soccer while the younger kids wanted to take pictures with my camera. Here are some of the photos we took.Then all sat down on the ground and we told them about Jesus and how much he loves them. We talked for a good thirty minutes!! It was truly a blessing.

This is Carlos...he was the only one that was happy because he had survived a Bermuda bike ride (see the t-shirt). I doubt seriously that he has been anywhere near Bermuda in his life time.

We got the word from our partner Tim Cummins that we had to go to Huntington Ridge to another block party.

This made Kaitlyn happy because she wanted to drive on Jimmy Carter Blvd.

Her mom was not so happy. A little buttering up never hurts.

We left there met up with our other partners Tim and Kathy Palmer (Kathy is pictured on the right above).

We got there just in time to see a karate exhibition. Everybody was braking boards in the name of Jesus. Kidding aside, the kids really loved the board breaking. CIA TV even got in on the act.

At the end they had a terrific and blessed gospel presentation that was performed in English and Spanish. Followed by an invitation to accept Christ and a closing prayer.

It was a great day in the name of Jesus.

We love you all!

Compassion in Action

Saturday morning was such a beautiful fall morning. Cornelia and I headed out to Lawrenceville to 12 Stone Church to participated in CIA weekend. Our partner and mentor Tim Cummins was instrumental in providing several project locations in Lawrencevillle. We spent our morning visiting around loving the volunteers and people of three different apartment complexes

These are just a few of the 12 Stone people that gave their time and heart to make this event possible. You could see the love of Chris in them as they ministered to the people. Even Spider Man got on the act!!!!

In case you didn't know...a block party is a tremendous and low risk way to share the Gospel through plain old fashioned love for people. Many of the churches we work with sponsor these events several times each year.

Today we will be hosting a group from Perimeter Church at Villas Nueve. We are soooo excited that our primary site, as well as, other sites in our area will be apart of CIA weekend. I will post more pictures later today. It's time t get ready to do one of my favorite things and that is WORSHIP!

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!!!