Saturday, April 17, 2010
Fun With Family
This past week my older sister, my nephew, and my mom came to visit for a few days. It was a lot of fun to have them. The weather was great, so we were able to take the kids outside to do a lot of fun stuff. We went to see our baby chicks (all 24 of them are still alive), which my nephew loved. We are excited to have chickens for all the fresh eggs, and it will be fun for Abigail to get the eggs with me everyday and to feed and water them. While they were here we also went on a walk, flew Abigail's new buzz lightyear kite (that was her first time doing that), the kids rode the tricycle (they were learning how to do it),we went to the park and played and had a picnic. We also were able to have some fun making homemade cards while all of the kids were asleep. I really enjoyed that because I don't usually have someone to do it with. We ended up taking my sister to camp to show her around because she had never been up there before. As we were driving up a big pine tree had fallen across the road so brian had to walk into camp and get a saw. He cut it down in no time and we were on our way. That's my mountain man!!!!! My sister and brother-in-law are professional photographers so she took over one hundred pictures of Josiah. We had fun trying different things and he was so cute. He was smiling and giggling at my mom most of the time. He is such a happy baby. The little trunk that you see in the pictures is something Brian made to hold all of his muzzleloading stuff. He did a great job on it and it was fun to use for this. We also used his leather for the background that he uses to made quivers. Then in some of the other pictures Josiah is laying on Brian's snowshoes. Josaih is only four months old now, but he is wearing some 18 month clothes. I can't believe that!!!
Abigail and my nephew had fun together, but it was challenging at times because they are learning to share and get along. But for the past two days after they left Abigail keeps saying that Aunt Tiffy went bye bye, Grandma went bye bye, and Cley went bye bye, and that they will come again to see me. This last trip she really became Aunt Tiffy's shadow. It was so cute!!!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Schroeder News- Spring 2010
Dear Family and Friends,
We are doing great and are praising God for who He is. He is so awesome! God is infinite, everywhere present, all- knowing, all-powerful, merciful, gracious, compassionate, sovereign, just, loving, and so much more. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Alpha Omega, Beginning and End, Messiah, Savior, Redeemer, Shepherd, Prince of Peace, The Rock, Healer, The Way, The truth and the life, etc. It has been such an encouragement to me to be reminded of who God is and to meditate upon what He has done for us.
In January we had several rental camps from different churches in Colorado. This was a blessing because we usually do not have many during the winter season. We were able to minister to them through cooking their meals, plowing, and having the cabins clean and warm. We trust that God used these camps to draw kids to Himself; regarding salvation and also growing in their personal relationship with Christ. This is why we do what we do at camp. We are merely vessels for Him, and we are able to see many lives changed because of what God is doing.
At the end of February we had Family Sled Day. There were about 30 people. We had fun enjoying the nice day with all of the new snow. It was wonderful to spend time with family and friends. The first weekend of March we were planning to have our Couples Retreat, but no one pre-registered so it was canceled. We pray that next year couples would have an interest to attend and we would be able to minister to them in a special way.
In May, we will start working up at camp more in order to get everything ready for the summer season. The men will be busy with the maintenance aspect and the women will be cleaning all of the buildings. It is a busy time, but exciting because we know the Lord is going to do some amazing things this summer. As of now, we have Men’s retreat during the first weekend in June and a church group renting camp during the last weekend. Then in July we will begin our four weeks of camp. We would greatly appreciate your prayers.
Abigail and Josiah are growing up so fast. Abigail has been learning how to be a big girl and use the potty. She also is our parrot now-a- days. It is hilarious!!! We wonder where she comes up with certain things, but later on we realize that it is from us. Oh boy, that teaches us many things about ourselves. She loves to read, play with our dog, eat chocolate, and visit the park and library. Josiah is going to be four months old on April 16th. He is about 15 or 16 pounds and is such a happy little guy. He always wakes up in the morning with a huge grin on his face. He started to giggle last month and that is adorable. Thank you Lord for these two little people in our lives.
Praises-
*Josiah no longer has RSV
*That God chooses to use us in His work
*The Lord always provides
*We have the Bible to teach us all that we need to know in this life
*We have a place reserved for us in heaven; our names are written in the Book of Life
*A wonderful church family
Prayer-
*Safety and the ability to get everything prepared for the summer season of camp
*Salvation of campers and growth in Christ for those already saved
*For the Lord to lead those He would like to be counselors
*Unity among the staff
*Bath House: that we might be able to get the approval to go ahead and begin this project
*Wisdom as we raise Abigail and Josiah
*That we may grow in Christ day by day
Thank you so much for taking an interest in our lives and what is going on at camp. We hope to hear from each one of you.
In Christ,
The Schroeders
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