Meanwhile Back at the Cabin

We checked with our neighbors at the cabin in North Carolina. We have things there we need to get within the next two weeks. Our neighbors on the mountain have basically been snowed in since Christmas and there are no plans to plow out until next Tuesday or Wednesday. The drifts are over waist high and the temperature is below zero.

I had insulated the water pipes under the cabin and we left the heat up a little but I worry about the water filter freezing under the house which isn't insulated. My plan was to put heat tape around it but the weather has not been cooperating!

If they plow Tuesday, we might be able to make a quick run before next weekend, when we will be speaking at a church in Sanford, North Carolina. The following weekend is Nashville, and the next weekend we have a week-long conference in Florida and somewhere in there we need to pass through Huntsville Alabama to arrange the shipment of a old player piano (has great sentimental value within the family) from Dave's mother's house to family in Idaho as she is moving to an assisted living center and liquidating the house. We also want to pass through Knoxville, TN.

Sounds like it would be a several day process to dig out the path to the cabin once we get there! Wow!

What a blessing it has been to have somewhere in South Carolina we could 'winter' for a few weeks!

This morning I was reading in Romans (my favorite book in the Bible) and was particularly touched by Paul's words in Chapter 15 and thinking much about the lost world. As we drive through this great and blessed country of ours (America), there are churches on every other corner - people for the most part have many chances to hear and respond to the Gospel and have made their choice (of course, the great commission (Matt 28) is clear that we are to reach and to disciple those close to us and in our communities, as well as in the world). There are many opportunities to be discipled through conferences, Sunday Schools, Christian Radio, Bible studies, church services, youth groups, youth conferences and we praise God for these important and wonderful ministries. But in so many parts of the world, like where we serve, so many have not even had the chance to hear the Good News of the Gospel of Christ. May our ambition be like Paul's (see the verse below).

Much love on this Sunday. We're off to church, thanking God for his wondrous provision.

Dave & Ann

"It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation. Rather, as it is written: 'Those who were not told about him will see and those who have not heard will understand.'" Romans 15:20-21