The Redd Family Happenings

Well, we’ve decided to follow God’s calling and go to a new church.  The new church is Open Door Baptist Church and visiting there has truly been an answered prayer.  This morning in our small group adult Bible study, Elizabeth and I shared our testimony with the others.  It was such a blessing to actually be there with Elizabeth as she shared her testimony first.  Our testimonies are so different, but you can see how God brought us together and how in the end, we both accepted the gift that is Jesus Christ, our Lord. 

This season we celebrate the birth of Christ and we learned today in the sermon at church just how important it is to realize that Christ, even as a newborn baby, was fully God.  He fulfilled ALL the prophecies of his first coming.  This is why studying prophecy is so important.  It points to the fact that only God can orchestrate the future.  The wise men knew both when and where Christ would be born due to the study of these prophecies.  In addition, our Pastor spoke just as much about Christ’s second coming.  Whether you believe He’s returning today or one hundred years from today, He is returning.  And His return is not at the “end of time”, but at the “end of this age”.  There’s a big difference.  However, both Elizabeth and I believe that His return is sooner than later.  Either way, understanding that He could return at any time should inspire us to share the Gospel with that much more fervor.

We have already made incredible new friends in Christ at Open Door and I really look forward to joining the church…. which will also mean a full immersion baptism! as well as finding out where God will use us in our new church home.

Elizabeth and I both are planning to start blogging each week on some of what we’ve learned in Church that week both for our own reinforcement of what we learn and hopefully as a blessing to those of you reading this.

In Christ, Robert

So I’m at the local scrapbook store scrapbooking all evening.  I call home to check in and hear, “I cut Sarah’s hair”.  Robert cut Sarah’s hair!!  I was freaking out!  But when I got home that night and looked at her hair, I realized that he did a really good job.  We had to dig through the garbage can to save a few locks of her hair for her scrapbook.

God bless!

Elizabeth

Well, we don’t really believe in celebrating Halloween but we compromised and attended my neighbor’s church’s Trunk or Treat which is a community service thing.  It was lots of fun with games, cotton candy, trunks decorated and kids going trunk to trunk getting candy.  They even had a bounce house. 

Sarah was a Hunny Pot.  Her friend, Emily, from next door was Squirt from Finding Nemo.  Emily’s brother, Joshua, was Nemo.  They were so cute!  Sarah tried popcorn for the first time and begged for it all night after trying it.  She also tried cotton candy, but didn’t like it, so Mommy took a hit for the team and finished the rest

God Bless!

Elizabeth