October 2008 Newsletter

October 3, 2008 

Dear Friends,

I know it has been a while, ok 9 months, since you have heard from us. I would like to give you several excuses but all they would be is meaningless excuses.
Teresa and I have had a tough year. Her mother died at the end of February and her dad died at the end of May. Both unexpectedly. God has been our comforter and healer through this time. This summer has been a time of preparing her folk’s house to be put up for sale and it has taken several months to get this done.

I want you to know that I do listen to you (Don I did hear you and thank you for your note). It was great to hear from a friend and we appreciate the advice that you need to hear from us more often than once a year.

A big change, as you can see at the top of the letter is our new web site. We were blessed to have a friend set this up for us a no cost. That’s a friend! Don’t try to search for us because you will not find us. Just type in the site address and you will get to us. We have work to do on this and our daughter Michelle is going to maintain the site for us. I do want to use that as our primary way of updating you. I plan to have a monthly update on the site once we get that far, hopefully in the near future.

We have also lost several of our board members this fall and we are in the process of rebuilding our board of directors. This is frustrating but it is also a time to trust the Lord and watch Him work through my frustration.

That’s about all we have to share with you now but we will put out another letter in early December and hope to have more information for you then.

God bless you all and thank you for your prayers and financial support especially in this time of
economic uncertainty.

Tom and Teresa