Thankful: Day 9

Today I'm thankful for faith.  Since moving to Newell, we've made the Baptist church here in town our church home.  We don't believe in joining a denomination (we're believer's in Christ, not Baptist/Catholic/Lutheran, etc) but go to Bethel because it's a bible teaching church.   My faith has saved my sanity so many times in life...and I'm so thankful for it!

I'm also thankful for their Wednesday night children's ministry, 105.  It has been called Awana for the past 20+ years but this year they changed the name and the philosophy of the program a bit.  Alexis LOVES it...she looks forward to going every week.  I'm so thankful for each one of those volunteers to invest their busy lives into the life of so many children in our community.

Here is a picture of Alexis last year at the Awana awards ceremony.  She won the award for the best sportsmanship during game time (which Justin helped with). She was so happy!

Singing her little heart out at the end-of-the-year Awana program last spring.

At our church's child dedication service last spring when we had Austin dedicated.