Report and Announcements

Picking Up The Stitches Blog site began in November 2009 for the purpose of sharing projects with the Dorcas Ladies of our local church.  This blog is no longer just for our Dorcas Projects but also serves as the Blog for the entire local church.  Since the blog began we have had over 400 views (the counter was not installed initially).  Although we had activity prior to this spring we were not set to receive stats from our viewers.  Since the spring we have had visits from 3 continents, 6 sub-continents, 8 countries, 27 cities and 129 specific visitors.  Thank you to our visitors and to those who have contributed. 

We are glad to know that The Church of God in Bald Knob, Arkansas is alive and ministering to others.  We look forward to another year of serving you.  If you have items you would like to share on our blog or comments please send them to wantulok@sbcglobal.net or pickingupthestitches@gmail.com.  Thanks for viewing.

The WMB Service this month focused on allowing the Lord to pick us up.  Sometimes we get low in spirit  and need to be lifted up.  He lifted me up from the miry clay and planted my feet on solid ground.  Sometimes storms come our way and we need to be lifted up above the storm clouds that surround us.  We looked at the examples of others who were lifted up by the Lord such as Job, David and Naomi.  We can go on, grow and fulfill the purpose that God has for our lives even if we face low times in our life.  David did.  2 Samuel 5:10  And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him.  We used a bloom from a mum (we called it a Daisy most of the time) to help us remember to keep our roots in the ground and our petals lifting up glorifying the Lord. (I guess you can say "mum's" the word.)  

Let us GO ON and GROW!  The Lord God is with us! Praise the LORD!

Did we see you at the General Assembly?

We took well over 1000 pictures so take time to stop by sometime and view the slide show.

Thanks to Jerry and Linda Long

Thanks Sister Linda and Brother Jerry for helping us prepare for Children's Assembly by making Aprons and Bonnets this year.  We really appreciate all your hard work. 

I have a picture but I was unable to transfer it to the computer - we will post it at a later time if we are successful with our download.

Children's Assembly

We had Children's Assembly services on 4 afternoons with wonderful ministering teams and GREAT altar responses. 
Heavenly Acres ( We were down on the farm with a barn, silo, orchard, vineyard, garden, pond and pig pen )
Theme:  Holy Living Is The Life For Me
Scripture:  Is the Seed Yet in the Barn?  Haggai 2:19a
Final count of experiences reported was 7 saved and 3 sanctified.  Praise the Lord!
Here are some pictures from the week and the program.

NOTES and Announcements

Great Plains Region:  Brother David Bock has copies of all the pictures that I took at camp.

Central Region:  Sister Laurie Cleaver has CD's of all the pictures that I took in Iowa and at the camp.

Children's Assembly pictures have ALL been sent to Headquarters on DVD's.  It is my understanding that NOT ALL pictures will be placed on the DVD's but selected from the submissions.  We will be posting pictures of Children's Assembly and the Children's Program on the blog next week. 

Let us pause for a VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

HAPPY 53RD BIRTHDAY TO Brother Willard Wantulok!  WE LOVE YOU!

This is a picture of Brother Wantulok at the General Assembly 2010 in Asheville, NC.

Feel free to share.

Debbie

Next we were headed for IOWA and the Central Regions Family Camp

After leaving Souix Falls, South Dakota, we continued to Iowa and met more storm clouds but we needed the rain to wash away the dirt from all of the road construction.  The sky was beautiful.  I don't know how many pictures I took but I know I missed a great opportunity to take pictures of lightening.

We arrived late at the home of Frank and Laurie Cleaver (yep - they are related to Sister Goodnight and know the Whittington's and the Bell's.)  They went to a great deal of trouble for us by remodeling an upstairs bathroom and taking us to the Botantical Gardens, feeding us and having the family all come by.  It was wonderful!  We had a great time before and after camp.  I loved the Botantical Gardens there were a dozen pictures for every step or turn.  Here are a few of my favorites.

The Church of God, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Inside view of the Des Moines church.

Frank Sr. and Ruby Cleaver, members of the Church.

Frank, JR and Laurie Cleaver our host.  Thanks for taking us to the Gardens!

Are we there yet? Talk about excitement to begin camp!

Learning the signs.

A Class full of Jonah's and Boats

Central Regional Overseer, Roger Ammons

We love family - WE LOVE FAMILY CAMP!

The joys of being married to the camp director.  That was some good cooking!

Camp Director, Laurie Cleaver

Gone Fishing!

Yes, Luke caught a fish too.

Catch of the day!

Boys fishing crew.  This was one fishing trip where everyone caught one and some more than one.  I have pictures of all of them.  But the guys still won the catch of the day.  They had the big catfish.

Girls fishing crew.  They each one caught at least one too.

 My first fish.

I want to keep it.

Me ...And. My. .Fishy!

Girl, don't you know you have to kiss your first fish?

SMACK!

Bye-bye fishy.

A school of GREAT FISHES.

Jammin in worship.

Glorious prayer time.

There were two saved and two sanctified reported during camp.  This region is about ready to exploid.  There are many family members who are on the edge of making decisions of eternal significance.  We asked some that did not attend family camp this year and they resonded as though they are planning on being there next year.  Pray for the souls in this area who are looking for a deeper experience with Christ.

What a great camp.  "Go Fish" was the theme and Sister Laurie did a great job and had a wonderful crew of helpers.  This camp had more visitors than any I have ever heard.  Folks were stopping in all the time to visit and see what was happening.  It was great.  I expect to see an increase in next year's attendance. 

This region expierenced an overseer change this year at the General Assembly.  Brother Ammons will no longer be serving as the Regional Overseer and the region and been split up.  Kansas will now be with Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma while the rest of the Central Region will be joined with Kentucky, Indiana, all of Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan ( I hope I got them all in there.)  New members joined in this region during the General Assembly.  They have started on GO, they have let down their nets, time to pull in the harvest!  Have a GREAT year!