IDENTITY IN CHRIST

This last week has been really good! We have been learning what our identity in Christ is. It is awesome to learn that our identity in Christ is perfect and sinless! I'm sure most of you are like me and have heard this before, but this week the speaker really drove it home for me. He started the week talking about the tabernacle and the significance of it. The significance being that in the times of Moses, only the High Priest was allowed into the Holy of Holies. Everyone else had to stand behind walls & curtains and listen for the sounds of the bells attached to the ankle of the priest. If the priest did not consecrate himself correctly, he would die and the people would be in a state of mourning. Today, because of Christ's death & the tearing of the veil -- EACH and EVERYONE of us is allowed into the Holy of Holies -- to have the intimate personal contact with God. How amazing is that?

We are leaving tomorrow (Sunday) morning for Pedro Bay. It is a small village of about 60 people. We will be there till next Saturday doing ministry, helping move the church and encouraging the only missionaries there. We are very excited about this opportunity. Please be praying for safe travel and for the Lord to do amazing things through us while we are there.

God Bless, Sherri

On the road again!!!

Hello friends,
I hope that this finds all of you well. We are sorry that it has been a while since our last post. We have been very busy. We have just returned from Anchorage and Wasilla. We were in Anchorage for three days meeting with Dan Jarrell, the pastor of Change Point Church. In Wasilla, we met with a lady named Joy Gifford, who was a missionary to St. Lawrence with her parents from childhood until her college years. She returns to St. Lawrence with youth groups annually and considers it home. We heard great stories of St. Lawrence and the people there. It is a very remote place, but they struggle with the same things we do in the states. They are subsistance culture, so we will get to experience eating a virtual cornucopia of "sea life".
Next Sunday we leave for Pedro Bay. It is a small village on Lake Illiamna. Most villages have no road access, so we will be flying into Pedro and assisting the missionaries there with there church and home. We will be there for a week and then return to Homer, "home", for a few weeks before we leave for St. Lawrence and Nome for 8 weeks. Please be praying for us for safety and guidance, in addition to our 8 week outreach costing us $10,000.
The girls are doing well. They love the outdoors. We can't keep them indoors for long. They loved clamming on the beach and throwing rocks into the water. Josh will be coming back in a few weeks with Mema Carol. We are ready for him to be back here. Chey is doing well in Texas. She is really missed here.
Thanks for all the e-mails, prayers and love. God Bless, Kevin & Sherri

The weekend is here

Well we made it through another incredible week. We had a speaker this week named Rod Wilson. He spoke this week on Spiritual Warfare. WOW it was awesome. We are just exhausted. This will be a week that will take a while to process completly. The two older kids are enjoying their time back in Texas, but we really miss them. Our 8 week outreach has been decided on. We are going to St. Lawrence Island. This is an Island of Yupiks in the Bering Sea, between the US and Russia. It is 38 miles from the Russian Coast. The Island is one of the most remote places in the world. They have a church exsistence there, but they have been without a full time pastor for quite some time. They have a high rate of suicide there among teens as well as drug and alcohol abuse. It is a remote island and all accounts indicate to us that is is a lonely forgotten place. WE ARE EXCITED. We feel, as a base, that the Lord has sovereignly directed us in this direction. The entire team of people, staff and students alike, came to this base and this DTS with a heart for these people. Please keep us in your prayers. God Bless You Kevin

Missing them already!

We spent this weekend in Anchorage. We left Saturday and took the two older kids to the airport. We were able to go to Walmart while there. That was really nice. Things are much cheaper there, plus there are no taxes. We got up early this morning (3:30 am) to go to the airport. The kids made it to Texas safely. They were even able to go into the cockpit while they were on a stop in Seattle. I'm sure that was really cool! I know they are both excited about being back there. I bet they miss the cool weather here. We will miss them both, terribly. We wish them both a happy birthday! Sherri