May 2012

Hi Everyone!!

We hope that you have been blessed this Spring and that you are preparing for a Summer of harvesting the presence and the blessing of the Lord! We have been privileged to host some wonderful Irish folks here in Brownwood over the past month and have been so very happy to introduce them to a Central Texas. And what a beautiful Spring Central Texas has had! It has been amazing. Bluebonnets were everywhere and just driving through the country was like walking through a flower shop. Beautiful!

So much has happened to our family it is hard to know where to begin this month. Along with enjoying our Irish visitors, we were blessed to enjoy the first Easter in hundreds of years that coincided with Passover. For us it felt like a re-syncing with the timing and the blessing of God. We have felt out of sync for a while but now we feel as though God has ‘reset our clock’. We feel returned to God’s timing. I pray you are, as well.

We have truly been seeking the blessing of the Lord together as a family as never before. As we all know, God blesses unity like no other thing in the world. Through our children’s enormous transition of coming to a “foreign country” (Heather and I are coming home, they are leaving home), we have tried to encourage them to develop a much greater closeness with one another, with us and most importantly with God. Our purpose is to draw God’s pleasure and blessing toward our family. As Psalm 133 states, ‘…it is as the dew of Hermon, like the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing’. When talking about how the blessing comes ‘down from above’, Matthew noted that its like Jesus coming down in the cloud to ‘kiss the mountain’. Indeed, and we are the mountain! Our family has truly needed God’s help in this season of change. We have been using these principles of unity within the family to help the kids focus on God and press for His blessing. To teach this truth and provide faith and encouragement for the effort, we have used the story of David bringing the Ark back to Jerusalem to help guide us. As the scripture shows, the Ark of the Covenant had been in Abinadab’s house for twenty years. His sons, Uzzah and Ahio, were driving the new cart with the Ark on it when the ox stumbled. In Uzzah’s attempt to stay the Ark, he touched it and was struck dead. The parade of 30,000 dancers and singers stopped abruptly and the Ark was taken to a man’s house named Obededom. David was discouraged. However three short months later David began to hear that God had blessed Obededom’s house tremendously! Obededom’s house hold so honoured the presence of the Lord that it brought His blessing. David became newly encouraged and this time went to get the Ark using proper protocol with the priests carried it. He had better results. Our lesson here was simple. Abinadab and his children obviously never learned how to draw a blessing from God even though God literally dwelt in their house for twenty years. Obededom was different! He lived in such a way with his family that pleased God so much that He totally transformed their house in only three months. This blessing was so great that the King became jealous enough for the blessing that he overcame his fear, learned what to do and when to get the Ark! I don’t know about you, but I am believing for three months of total transformation in my house and situation…and we are making steps to learn, as did Obededom and his family, how to draw God’s blessing toward us!

Updating the ministry, we have had a VERY exciting month. Heather has been on TV, Local news in Abilene, newspapers in the region, radio stations all over including her hometown here in Brownwood! This past Saturday she did a book-signing for her book How to Love Your Life here after a week of radio and newspaper interviews and had a wonderful time. Many folks from her past came out to support her. It was so very fun for the rest of the family to see people like her 12th grade English teacher, Mrs. Stovall. Heather looked beautiful and was all smiles and really enjoyed the day. As for me, I have been ministering out and was in the San Saba prison unit the day prior to Heather’s signing preaching to a fairly large group of hungry men. God was moving in extraordinary ways….I will fill you in next month along with some of the big projects we have lined up for Honduras and Nicaragua.

Thanks for your love and support during this time. As always, we love and appreciate you all!
Kevin and Family