Updates

August 2010

After a bumpy start, we've been very pleased with our new Bible Study at Lakeland Continuing Care Center. We've been having a faithful group of participants each week. We are also pleased to have added another nursing home, Royalton Manor, into our monthly ministry circuit. Donna has been coping with damage to her home from a fallen tree during a June storm. Any prayer for that situation would be appreciated.

Both Brett and Donna have family members struggling with serious health issues which remain an ongoing concern, but remain both thankful and awed that this tiny ministry continues to be enthusiastically received.

Donna spends a lot of time preparing music for her church and teaching many people of all ages how to play piano and guitar. (There are many interesting stories that could be shared on that topic alone!) She also continues to help with the affairs of her mother's estate.

We are both proud of Donna's son, John, who just graduated from the University of Michigan and of Brett's daughter, Krysten, who just graduated from Bowling Green University. Hooray! 

Brett and Donna continue to enjoy their weekly Saturday services at Nursing homes with their friend Chuck. We see blessings of some kind or another each time we join together with the elderly for these special times of worship.

Our work with our churches also continues to be consistently blessed. Donna's church is working through a number of planning issues that demands a lot of attention. We are as yet uncertain of the impact on both her work as the music minister and both our work in leading the Bible Study, but we are confident in the Lord's hand, whatever the direction.

Our Tuesday night shut-in visitation also remains blessed and consistent. Our handful of dear ones whom we call our "Precious Pennies" welcome us with dear and open arms. The Lord may call a couple of them home soon, so we look at our times with them as particularly blessed.

Brett continues to restructure this website to be a resource and place to stimulate redeeming thoughts for discouraged Christians. Several new pages have been added to the Ponderings page which describe how people become excluded from their church communities - often known as being "dechurched." 

Brett does keep a personal blog at his BookMark61 Xanga blogsite. Many of his Christian thought blog posts have been selected as "Featured Blogs" on the main Revelife Christian website because of the interest in the subject and the recommendation of the readers. Feel free to stop by!

We've also added a regular blog exclusively for visitors to this website. It's also located on the "Ponderings" page. It is Brett's goal that he will be more diligent in posting thoughts on this page in 2010.

Please remember that we are posting summaries of our weekly Bible Studies in our Lilac Ministry section of this website. We hope they might be a bit of daily manna for you.