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!

Home Work Help and Birthdays

Meghan Faircloth and I met the school buses today to hand out flyer's for home help which will star on Monday. Just a week and a half ago we thought the program was cancelled until God sent us Meghan. Its good to have the program back on track. God is good.

Also went to Lawrenceville to look at a couple of complexes. Hopefully after the first of the year we will have two additional missions on line staffed by FBC Lawrencevile. Pray for a good end result.

Today is a special day in our house. It is Kaitlyn's 17 birthday. She is so special that she even got two cakes.

This one was baked and decorated by her life-long friend Cathy.

Kaitlyn blowing out the candles. I was teasing her about catching the house on fire.

We took her out to Chic-fil-a for dinner after church tonight. We all had so much fun!!

Being the man behind the camera, I always get left out of the pictures. So I thought a self portrait would be in order.

Its hard to believe that she is already seventeen. We love her so much!!!

Happy Birthday Kaitlyn.

Day Off

I took the day off yesterday to recoup. The past three weeks have been virtually non-stop. Nevertheless I still took time to work on a couple of ministry things. I met with Megan Faircloth. She is going to come on board to help with our after school homework program which we will start to advertise this Wednesday.
Kaitlyn and her friend Vanessa coaxed Cornelia and me into taking them to the Mall of Georgia. Shopping is one of my least favorite things to do...so you know I really love my daughter if she can get me to go shopping.

Late yesterday afternoon we also went and climbed Stone Mountain. Today I feel like I need to take another day off. Fat chance!!! My legs are a little sore , but the view was worth the climb to say nothing of the aerobic value. Well... we finally made it to the top.The breeze felt awesome.

I had fun taking pictures of the girls and watching them clown around. Looks dangerous don't it? Look at the upper right hand corner of the photo!!!

It takes nerves of steel to look over the steep side of the mountain directly above the memorial carving. No fear Kaitlyn. This photo made her mother brake into a sweat.

Wish I could jump like this!!! We had a great time.

This is me and Kaitlyn at sunset. If you look real close you can see Atlanta just behind Kaitlyn's arm.

Love You All!!!