Hard to believe the first three months of 2025 has already come and "almost" gone! Yes, Jeff is enjoying retirement but life is still busy!
The Annual Mid-Winter Bible Conference 2025 was held in January at Antioch. Jeff was asked to be the speaker. His subject was "The Rapture of The Saints." Here is the You-Tube link if you would like to listen to the lessons (scroll down quite a ways to find them.....I've added older lessons, that I had livestreamed on Facebook, since that time and thus these videos are not in date order).
Some of those attending praying over Jeff before one of the sessions 💙. It was another great conference, great music, great food and great attendance.
On January 20th, President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as our 47th President
One Sunday, although we didn't intentionally do it, we dressed as twins!! Jeff has lost 60+ pounds and I've lost 30+ lbs.in the last year. Our blood sugar numbers are much better as well!👏
Saylor as an "old woman" for 100 Days of School. Too cute. Her teacher did the aging picture and had them write what they would do at age 100....loved Saylor's answers: I will be in my rocking chair. I will wear my robe at home. I will live in my grandchildren's' house. 😂😄
Happy March 9th Birthday to our Daughter-in-Law, Michelle💖!!
We are doing a 9 day Southern Caribbean cruise March 28-April 6th (all islands that Jeff and I have not been to before). 
It is Wednesday Night—Time to
Go to Church
I knew that we needed to find a church home as soon as we moved and so, weeks before the actual move, I looked in the BMAA Directory and Handbook for the churches with a Tyler, TX address. I saw that New Harmony Baptist Church was the largest and so, we decided to attend this church first.
On Wednesday evening, November 5, 1975, we started off toward New Harmony Baptist Church and by the end of the evening, I learned that the church was not actually in Tyler but in the community of New Harmony.
The road out of the city of Tyler was narrow, hilly, curvy, and long. Because it was dark outside, it made the drive seem even longer. Finally, we came upon a church building and thought that we had found it. It was not New Harmony. It was Mt. Olive Baptist Church. Someone in the car suggested that if we could not find New Harmony, we could come back and attend this church (since Mt Olive was the name of our home church back in Girard).
I was just about to give up hunting for New Harmony when we saw the church building.
More than A Coincidence
After the service, my mother-in-law Dorothy Boore, who had come down from Kansas to help us move, spoke with a member of the church named Peggy Ferrell. In the course of the conversation, Dorothy said that she hoped her single daughter Beverly could find a Christian husband here in Texas. Peggy said that she hoped her single son Don could find a Christian wife too. This was on Wednesday evening, November 5, 1975 and Bev and Don started dating in February 1976, and 7 months later, I officiated at Don and Bev’s wedding in the New Harmony Church on Sept. 25th. God does some amazing things!
Wesley & Peggy Ferrell soon adopted the three of us (Debbie, Beverly, and me) as a part of their family and invited us for Sunday lunch after church on multiple occasions. My, Peggy could cook and bake! I loved her strawberry pie and over the last 50 years, she has made me many.
Unless you have ever
moved away from your family and everyone is a stranger to you—you will never
know what it means for a family to invite you to be a part of their
family. I will always love Wesley and Peggy for how they treated us in
the beginning and over the last 50 years! *******
Jeff and I were talking recently about the "what if's" we had not married......how different life would have been. Had there not been a "Jeff and Debbie," there would not have been a "Bev and Don" or a "Kaye and Rob." But God.......He had it all planned from the start.....and we are all 6 so very thankful for God's plan!!💕💕💕
My next post will be all about our cruise.💞
