Lilburn Dazs

This week I have been substitute teaching at a local elementary school. This school is one of the largest in the county. It is also the most ethnically diverse as well. The older kids had a chorus concert yesterday morning. All the non-participating students came. Looking over the crowd...I think every ethnic group on earth was represented there. I might have seen three or four white kids in the crowd. It is so amazing to see what God has placed right here in our back yard in Lilburn. I feel God has given me this opportunity to not only earn some extra support money, but to also work in a school as an expansion of my mission field. Missionary work takes real creativity and this is just another way to build relationships with a different ministry technique. I really do approach this as part of my ministry.


One of the administrators asked me today why I was there? I think beads of sweat broke out on my forehead. After all I am a 50 year old man working with very small children. I thought "OK God" here we go. So I was straight up with her and told her that I was a missionary looking to make some extra income, then I waited for her reaction. To my surprise she began to tell me about her church and how proud she was of all the teachers in her school who are Christian. Honestly I have been very surprised to find so many Christian teachers there. It is almost like God has strategically placed these teachers in this place for this time for one common purpose. The attitude of the staff there is tremendously upbeat!

Yesterday one little girl named Marta came to me crying. I asked her, "Whats wrong honey?" She said in a broken voice, "Phillip says that God doesn't really live in heaven. Phillip is a Muslim kid. I bent down and told her, "Don't worry! I promise God is still in his heaven." She smiled and wiped here tear and said, "I knew he was wrong." Wow what a moment.

One of the blessings of serving the Lord as your missionary, is getting to meet and know so many people. If you know me personally...you know that I have no trouble expounding on the issues. Cornelia always says I came from my mother talking at birth. She is probably right.

Cornelia and I would like to invite you to keep praying for our ministry work. The Youth Outreach United team will be back at Villa Nueva on Saturday morning for their biweekly outreach. Please pray for my partner Meghan and her team as they work to reach the children with games, snacks, and the Word of our Lord. Also pray how you can become a partner in our ministry.

We Love You All!

Election Day!!!!!

As many of you know this is a very historical day in the life of our country. The Bible tells us that God gives certain people the authority to rule. He has also given us the freedom in our country to vote. We had a very special time voting early this morning as the Harrell's voted as a family minus Kaitlyn (see is only seventeen). Man what a tremendous feeling it is to have such God given opportunity as we have in the United States of America to vote. I hope you exercised your opportunity as well.

You know sometimes we get all hyped up when it comes to elections, but let us remember that God is sovereign and He is really in control despite the outcome. Jesus also tells us in Luke 12 not to worry, so whatever the outcome, as Christians we know who really controls things. Jesus! So don't worry.

If you are reading our blog...we want to thank you for taking interest in our ministry and our family. We love you all!

Sunday heading toward Monday

I want to update you with the progress we are making at our mission. On Wednesday we had about 15-18 for homework help. Not bad for a program that was almost dead two weeks ago. The power of prayer is amazing.

We give thanks to the Lord for sending Meghan Faircloth to us to help with our homework program. She is really doing an amazing job.

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had gotten my substitute teaching certificate. I finally started receiving calls last week. This will be a grand opportunity to get a Christian influence into public school, while making extra income. My plans are to do this two or three days a week as time permits. I still have to keep our field programs running...they come first.

The entire Harrell family went to church a North Point Community Church today. Andy Stanley is beginning a new series on "Not Worrying." He really has a unique ability to preach to the heart. We have a regular home church, but we like to visit there once every other month or so.

If you are reading our blog...Cornelia and I want to say thank you. We will be back in the field tomorrow. Please pray for us!!!

Kindest Regards...we love you all!

Catching You Up on Things

Were back!
I am sorry for the lack of blogging the past few days. Friday was a miserable rainy day! I met the youth pastor of Parkview Christian Church and his team. We left their church and drove up to look at mission sites. They plan to do a block party for us November 22. They wanted to personally look at sites. I hope its not too cold then. Sorry for not having photos of the group..the camera was acting up.

After lunch I was back at the office working on administrative stuff. We also started on our news letter gathering supplies, postage, and working on layout design etc... I have a lot to tell you about in the next news letter. If you would like to be on our mail-out list send your email address to keithandcornelia@gmail.com. God has kept us busy this month with great ministry.

Saturday morning we met a team from Youth United. They came to do a party for the kids along with Bible stories at three different complexes. They were able to round up a few kids at each location. Several kids are Catholic and were at confirmation class, while others were attending Saturday school (for kids who need help keeping up). Later in the day I took Kaitlyn and her friend Vanessa back to Six Flags (yes we went back again!). We hit a few rides and came back home. It was fairly crowded.

Today we attended church at MPFBC "Bridge" service. We had a Tex-Mex lunch with our friends afterwards. We met a new family that we did not know. It was fun getting to know them. We really enjoyed Pastor Bob's sermon on "Why Come to Church."

Love you all!

Round Two

This morning started off with language classes. Learning Spanish is not really easy for me. Still I do believe that if I keep at it I just may get conversational by the time i turn 60.

Today was round two of homework help. We had approximately 10 kids. We love helping them because many of them have to go to Saturday school because they have already fallen behind this semester. It's our goal to instill success into the lives of these kids. As Truitt Cathy said...it's easier to mold a boy than to treat a man. Lord let us me molders of these kids so that we don't have to treat them later in life.This is Meghan Faircloth our new partner. She is doing a great job with the kids and has a huge heart for the lost. thank you Lord for sending Meghan to us. Meghan is a part of Youth United. They are coming Saturday to run a small fall party with costumes and lots of candy. Please pray that we will be able to share Jesus with someone.

Tomorrow I meet with two different potential partners.Tim is leaving for an out of town trip so I guess I will be running the ship. i love working with new people that are willing to move outside of the four wall. Praise God for them we need all the help we can get.

Love you all.

Home Work Help!

Yesterday was a great day because we finally were able to get our homework help program started. Praise the Lord we had 10 kids and we were able to help everybody with math, reading, and science. I left the camera at home so I wasn't able to get pictures. I'll try to take pictures tomorrow. Meghan and I also played games and gave them snacks and drink after all the homework assignments were completed..

We also got a chance to minister to the Lopez family. The mother recently underwent surgery and is still in the recuperation process. Please pray for her. Her name is Maria. Also pray for a new partnership we are trying to develop with Parkview Christian Church. They are interested in working on site with us. We pray the Lord works out all the details so we can have more boots on the ground for Jesus.

Today I worked on a group email list. We are trying to get up to speed on technology in order to be a little more high tech when it comes to fund raising. We actually spend very little time worrying about fund raising because we know the Lord will provide. We prefer to focus our energy on helping people and sharing the Gospel. I sent the first email today. If any of you received it your feed back would be most appreciated.

We also have a new website. We would like to invite you to take a look at it http://www.thetablemissions.org/.

We love you all!!!

Commissioning Service!

Yesterday was a blessed day for Cornelia and I as we were commissioned as NAMB missionaries.

Pictured below is my good friend Mike Talent on the right. He moved to Alabama several years ago. Its always good to see him. He was a major partner in our youth ministry days.

Our partner Tim Cummins lead the charge for us with a chorus of "Take the Church to the People." Then asked people to come forward to place hands on us a to pray for God to use us.

I received my certification certificate from NAMB. Cornelia is still in the process of approval, but we expect that to be finished soon. Then she will receiver hers as well.

Tim's daughter Ashley Cummins was commissioned as well. She is the youngest MSC missionary in North America. We all love what we do!

Saturday we went back to Six Flags. Boy was it crowded! I guess everyone is trying to get the good out of their season passes.

We were there to meet up with some of Kaitlyn's Christian friends from Alabama. They all met each other a few years ago at Atlanta Fest and are still really good friends. Usually long distance relationships don't last, but they have stuck together!

This is Christiana on the left...she made Kaitlyn a huge birthday card. They really have great times together.

Saturday night the girls had a costume party. From left to right Irene, Janna, Kaitlyn, and Sarah. They had the Peter Pan theme going on.

This is Kaitlyn and her good friend Vanessa. They recently did a couple of YouTube videos on black screen. It makes them look suspended in mid-air. Both of them are aspiring to be photographers. They sure can find different ways to have fun.

We Love You all!