Were Back!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Merry Christmas! We truly enjoyed ourselves being back home. We were with family and friends there that we had not seen in a while. God truly blessed us by just being able to share the holiday with our family and son. Our youngest son was able to make it for the holidays. Our oldest son had to stay in New Orleans and work. But I give God the glory because he is doing well and safe.
We are back and we have two teams coming in Saturday. We should have about 60 people here if not more. It is teams that have been here before and are excited about coming back again. We seem to have a full house this month. We have the East and the church filled with volunteers. God is Good! I am very excited to have teams again. I will have pictures of our teams as soon as they get here and you will be able to see them.
We will have a wedding this January also. It is Jessica and Mark's wedding. Joel is so excited and there is a lot to do so keep them all in your prayers. I will keep you updated on the wedding and events as they arise.
I pray for you all and until next time.... lots of love from Allen and Dovie

Reflection on the Holidays..

Hi Everyone. We have not had any teams in this month so there is no picture to show you of any teams. However I do have an update about Marguerite's house. She has officially as of yesterday had the gas turned on in her home. She now has electric, hot water, and stove hook up. She is so excited! I feel bad because she has not moved in all of her stuff but she is just excited that she can now take a bath in her house if she wants to. She is so looking forward to just taking a bath and relaxing. She said it has been so long since she has been able to do that. All you women reading this know how she feels. She won't be in her house for Christmas but she doesn't mind because she has waited this long a little longer will not matter to her. The way she describes it is God has given her a home back and one more day will not will not change that she now has a home. She goes into it in the day time and listens to her radio or TV. All of her family is in Texas and will not be here with her on Christmas so please pray for her.

We will be going home to visit family for the holidays and are excited so please keep us in your prayers too. As soon as we beg back we will be helping Marguerite move into her home. We will be making that our number one project. I will take pictures of everything and put them on the blog.

I would ask that you keep in prayer our son's who are having a struggle right now with some situations. It is hard sometimes but with the grace of God we keep going forward. I thank God for the Love and Understanding when dealing with family and loved ones. His wisdom compares to nothing else. I hope everyone remembers the Love and Joy of the holidays. If you need to be reminded click on this web link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCdZwitrNoY
It is about a 12 year of boy who has amazing insight. You wont' be disappointed.

We will keep you all in our prayers and until next time...lots of Love..from Allen and Dovie

A Beautiful View.

Hello Everyone. I know it has been a few weeks and I am sorry but we have had no teams and a lot has been going on family wise. However I have not forgotten about you. I do think of you a lot and that is why I put these pictures on the site. I thought you might like to see St. Louis Cathedral down town. I have never been in a Catholic church before and this one was beautiful. It has high ceilings and really big columns holding the second floor up. The ceiling has pictures on them and it amazes me how hard it must have been to paint them. They had a choir this evening praising the Lord and they were awesome. They have different singing events all though out this month until after New Years.

The first 2 pictures are of main street here in New Orleans. It is all lit up too with so many lights. I just love lights. It is very beautiful this time of year. I just wish everyone that sees these light get reminded of why we celebrate this holiday. I know the Catholic church does but I just hope that when people see the lights around the city they remember the reason for the season. I hope we all remember.

Well I hope peace for everyone until we see each other again. Show your families your love in this holiday season. Until next time... Lots of love from...Dovie and Allen