APRIL 2018 Dear Praying Family and Friends, RETREAT – The first week in April our church hosted the annual IBIMI Retreat. This year we wanted to honor the older members of our advisory board. Those who could come were DeWayne Felber, Glen Jaspers, Paul Hiscock, Bud Wells, Bill Rice and Jerry Tetreau. It was a […]
MARCH 2018 “We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers.” 1 Thessalonians 1:2 Dear Praying Friends, In March, we enjoyed a wonderful visit from Bev’s sister-in-law, niece and great niece, Marilyn Wright, Sharilyn DeCrastos and Emily Blaikie all from Indiana. Having family make the long trip out […]
FEBRUARY 2018 “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” James 5:16 Dear Friends and Supporters, February came and went so quickly, but was filled with many things to share with you. Gary was asked to preach the funeral of an elderly Apache man. It was one of those […]
JANUARY 2018 “Happy is He that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.” Psalm 146: 5 Dear Friends and Family, In our Christmas letter, we were looking forward to the ladies Christmas party, the Christmas play and our family Christmas. Nine ladies enjoyed a great evening at […]
Dear Ones in Christ, Two years ago, in celebration of our 50th wedding anniversary, our children gave us funds toward a trip to Washington, DC to tour our capital and see the Vietnam Memorial. It took two years to work it out, but we left on Sept. 21. We wanted to report to the three […]
SEPTEMBER 2017 “Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.” Psalm 146:5 Dear Friends and Supporters, We are so blessed! You may recall from our last letter that the highway road crew graded the back of the church property so that it would […]
JUNE 2017 Dear Ones in Him, June has been a month filled with many opportunities of service: VBS – God blessed us with a great Vacation Bible School this year. We averaged about 26 young people for the week. Paul & Naomi put together such a good program, the theme: “Riding the Gospel Trail.” When […]
Dear Ones in Christ, “Moment by moment I’m kept in His love; Moment by moment I’ve life from above; Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine; Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.” Thinking on the words of this beloved hymn is a great comfort as we are reminded that we have life from […]
Dear ones in Christ, “God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, He’s so good to Me!” The words of this chorus so well describe all that God has done and continues to do at Living Waters Baptist Church. In March we saw many times the goodness of our Great God! […]
Dear Ones in Him, Recently, Naomi, our Youth Pastor’s wife, sang a special in our Morning Worship Service titled, “No Time for the King of Kings.” The words of the first verse and chorus are: “Is the Christ crowded out of your busy life, with the toiling that each day brings? with the strain and […]
Dear Praying Friends, January has been a very cold, snowy month, even here in this “desert” state! Pastor Bud and Connie Wells and Don, Leslie & Cameron Otto from Wyoming, Don & Patty Beebout & Greg Sommar from Iowa, came to help with a work project at the church. They were delayed a couple of […]
Dear Ones in Christ, A Christmas card we received stated it so well: “JESUS is – The Lamb of God, to die for our sins. The Prince of Peace, to change out hearts. The Good Shepherd, to guide our lives.” Our prayer is that each one reading this might know Jesus Christ in this way. […]
