Here's Bro. Walter our elder statesman who has been on his knees most of the time laying tile. He's doing a great job and we are so thankful that he was able to come on the team.

This one is just for my family, since they requested it. I'm measuring for where the outlets will go. These are installed after the sheetrock and fastened to the sheetrock with little clips to hold the back of them.

Keep all of us in your prayers and that God will continue to help!

This is the sheetrock that has been pasted to the walls. Here's Steve and Donnie! (Sorry for the fuzzy dust in the air)

We're thankful for Ronnie being real tall!

We are working hard and God has been giving us strength each day. Thank you for your prayers because the days have been long but much work has been accomplished. I am very pleased with how things have gone. The guys are doing a fantastic job and God has put together the right team for the job. He does all things well!

Thank you for all of your prayers! God has been helping and we were able to crank out a lot of work today. Sorry for not having a picture, but this boy is tired! I'll try tomorrow!

We were able to get lots of sheetrock hung and keep motoring along. I will also try to get a picture of the tile guys as well.

Keep praying and thanks for your prayers!

Here's Steve and Ronnie hangin the rock!

The second floor is almost finished, with the exception of the taping and finishing. The Lord willing we will begin the third floor on Wednesday. Continue to pray for strength and that all will go smoothly. God has been helping and the guys have been working "overtime" to get as much as possible done.

Thank you for all who have made this possible through your giving and prayers. It is a HUGE, HUGE Blessing to Sally Sebo.
Thank you especially to the Beavertown God's Missionary Church, where most of these men are from. May God bless you for your passion for Missions!

Here's Jeremy Zechman taking a short break to spend a few moments with Nellie and Elvi from The "House of Hope".

The bosses are really working us hard!!!! You'll have to guess who they are! Seriously, God has been helping us toget a lot accomplished. There's still lots to be done but after3 days of work, I'm real pleased with all that has been accomplished.

Here you can see Steve and Don hanging or should I say, "pasting" sheetrock to a block wall. I think this was a first for all of us, but it works!

We enjoyed a wonderful meal at "House of Hope" Childrens' Home along with the Pastor and his family. Here's some of the guy enjoying the food and fellowship.

Here's a good picture of what we've been working on. The insulation for the side wall is almost finished. Monday we will finish the slats on the ceiling, frame out a place for the "pull down" stairway, finish the insulation and then sheetrock.

Youth Center Update! We all arrived safely, thank the Lord! The team from Beavertown arrived safely after quite an ordeal to and at JFK! I'll let them tell you about it.

We thank the Lord for all of His help on Saturday. Two of the men started working on the floor tile, downstairs and the rest of us either finished getting the supplies or got a good start on the the second floor.

As you can see we had to fur out and add some slats to prepared for the sheetrock. We also got a good start on the insulation.

The Lord willing, this room will be ready to sheetrock sometime on Monday while we continue on the top floor wood work.

Here's Steve Stahl being "the boss" while the rest of us stand and watch. Seriously, we anticipate God really helping us and are anxious to hit it hard on Monday morning.

Youth Center Update!

We would appreciate your prayers from today until Dec. 12th as a work team from the States goes and helps with some of the interior work at the Youth Center in Romania.

Pray for traveling mercies, strength and that God will help so that lots of work can be done.

The Lord willing, you should be able to see some photos of the work team and some of the work accomplished.

Thanksgiving number 6 through infinite. As you can see, once you start thanking God for things, it goes on and on and gives you more appreciation for Him. I've purposely waited to put the most important things I'm thankful for at the end(of this month) and that is God Himself. I am thankful that we serve a God who is loving, just, forgiving, merciful, a comforter, the judge, treats us as individuals works with us on a personal level. I'm thankful for His word! It's true, applicable to my daily life and is The Authority on everything. I'm thankful for salvation, heart purity, God the father, Son, & Holy Spirit. I'm thankful that He is faithful, dependable, infinite, all-wise, and all-knowing. He knows our weaknesses and knows we are mere humans. I'm thankful that we can have a personal relationship with Him and that the veil that limited access into the Holy of Holies has been torn and we can have access to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I'm thankful that God the Son died on the cross for my sins and has saved me and cleansed me through His blood. I'm thankful that His death on the cross is un-limited and can help us to overcome all temptations and willful sin. Praise God, Jesus arose on the third day and we serve a living God, not a dead one. I'm thankful for His Grace which is sufficient for all of my needs. Here's a thought that will blow our brain cells - God gives Grace, Mercy, Forgiveness, etc. to me and millions and millions, each and every day and His storehouse of these attributes is NEVER REDUCED! He never gets low on Grace or Mercy or anything else! Hallelujah!

As you can see, we could go on and on and may God help me to continue to praise and thank Him for what He has done, what He's going to do, and who He is!

Number 7 through ...... What a wonderful wife God has given me. These pictures were taken in Southern Germany and Asutria. (thanks again Mom and Dad, we had a great time)

I am so thankful for the wife God has given me. She's a great cook who is just tops, second to none. She makes great pies and her best pies are apple, strawberry, pumpkin, peanut butter, pineapple cream, chocolate cream, etc., etc., etc. She's a wonderful mother and wife and we've enjoyed the 17 plus years. I am most thankful for her desire to live the Christian life and her desire to please Christ above all else. Although I don't think I'm a great man, (that word is used way to much these days) I do have a great wife and yes, I do admit, I'm biased. Laura has made me a better person as an individual and in the ministries God has called us to.

The past 4 years has been quite exciting and my appreciation for my wife has only grown as she has switched cultures, languages, space, and the comforts of home for new comforts that have become very special to us. She's done a good job of improvising with whatever was available and truly is a Whoa-man!

Thank you Laura for the wonderful 17 plus years and the Lord willing, many more. Thank you God for the wonderful wife that you have given to me.

Picture on the left is taken in a beautiful Austrian field last May. (notice the beautiful snow capped peaks in the background) Picture on the right is taken in Salzburg, Austria.

I am having quite a problem because the days of the month are dwindling but I still have many, many things to be thankful for. Like I said in the very beginning, this list is not conclusive but just a start and what happens is that the more you things you thank God for, the more things you see that you have to be thankful for. So this is number 11 down through 8 if you even care.

God has given me 4 wonderful children, truly a blessing from God. Each child is unique and has been given wonderful talents and spiritual gifts that we trust they will always let God have and use. I am proud at how God is helping them and especially happy to see how God is helping our older 2 and their desire to live for God. Their consistency in their devotions continues to speak to me and keeps me careful to do the same. The greatest joy is in knowing that my children are walking with God.

My children are looking to me, to be the Spiritual leader that our home needs and my wife and I take our responsibilities very seriously. Besides my own spiritual well-being and my wifes, they are our top Mission Field. No Mission Field is more important than these 4 souls and why would I spend all of my efforts trying to win the world and neglect these that God has given me and with whom I have the most contact, time and influence over. What we have found out is that as God has blessed us with 4 wonderful children, our children, who are part of our ministry, have been a big blessing to thousands of people as our family has simply just tried to do what God has called us to do.

Thank you God for the 4 wonderful children that you have entrusted to us. Our prayer was from day one and continues to be that they will always live for God and be a shining light to the world around us.

12 Parents! I'm very thankful for the wonderful parents I have. I know the first set, the biological ones, I didn't have any choice over the matter, however, I am truly blessed! The second set, I actually had a choice over, well, they came with the "prize". God has given me 2 sets of wonderful parents. My biological parents are just what they are supposed to be, a father and mother. Unfortunately, many kids don't have a father and/or mother. They might have a male / female figure in the home but are lacking what a father and mother bring. Thanks Mom and Dad for your wonderful examples. Thanks especially for always supporting me in whatever I felt God was asking of me. It's so nice to have parents who don't stand in the way of what God is trying to do in our lives. "Just do what God wants you to do, and we will support you," are words I've heard often and it has given me the wonderful comfort to know, mom and dad are behind us.

The second set of parents, the ones that came with the prize, are just as wonderful and I'm thankful for their wonderful example as well. I'm blessed for they trained their daughter well in the arts of motherhood and home making. In fact, they trained her so well, she's simply the best cook, mother, etc. It's so nice to have Godly "in-laws" and people who have accepted me into the family.

The longer I live and the more I get around and involved with other people, I continually see how blessed I am to have 2 sets of wonderful parents. May God's blessing continue to rest on each of you. I love y'all!

13 The Bryan Family! Here's the clan in our last meeting 1 1/2 years ago. It's so nice to have a wonderful "in-law" family that is serving Christ and also with whom we get along excellent. Maybe that's because we have been spread out all over the world and thousands of miles away from each other. (that's some twisted Missionary Humor)

We do get along very well and it's such a joy to get together and have good wholesome Christian fellowship. So many families today are being torn apart and can hardly get together without fighting. Most of the time we've been able to get together about every other year, that is until some of us messed it up by going to countries a long ways away. I'm glad we have a wonderful family where each one of us is doing our best to serve Christ and live for Him. It sure does make things easier when we keep our relationship with Christ as it should. May God bless each one and may we always live for Christ! We love and appreciate each of you!

Thanksgiving number 14 is - Rita! That's the Rottweiler! She was a GREAT dog and excellent with the kids. I have no doubt that if someone would have tried to "rough up " the kids, she would have been there to DEFEND her brother and sisters for she became part of the family. Whenever they would get hurt, she would run to see what was wrong and would want to shower them with lots of love and "kisses". One of the great things was she already came trained, thanks to the previous missionaries. Our kids have missed her greatly, so you can pray for their hearts.

15 Trust in God! I'm so thankful that I serve a God who I can completely trust! Some fathers have played bad tricks on their kids and when the kid was going to jump off of some "high" place, they acted like they wouldn't catch them. Bad idea when you are dealing with a little child who needs to trust his father, especially when many years later for some reason they struggle with trusting their dad. Fathers are a "visible example" of what our heavenly father is like and when we mess that up, it gives our children a wrong view of our Heavenly father. Thank God I have had a very good father here on earth.

I am so thankful that God never leads us astray or misleads us. He doesn't play tricks on His kids and He is 100% trustworthy. God has spoken to me quite a bit over the last 5 years as we've had to make some tough decisions in our life. (tough only because of wanting to make sure we knew what His will was) Many of these things look like they don't make sense in the human. But God says, lovingly and softly, "Son, can you trust me." You see, I tend to be more analytical by nature and one of those strange people who loves math. My wife said, "you can be happy just playing with a calculator." She's partly right! So many things don't seem to make sense in the human but God's ways are much higher than our ways and things don't always make sense in the human. That's the whole idea of faith! We revere Abraham, but if he were living in the United States in 2007/soon to be 2008, many Christians would look at him strangely and think he was weird. You see in our culture, you are supposed to know what you are going to do for the rest of your life, have it all planned out, and that is how we think a good young Christian man should be. Oh, you also have to be very excited about what you are going to do, or something is wrong with you. (tell that to Jesus as He is going to calvary) Here's what many would say to Abraham: Have you talked to a bunch of counselors about what you are going to do? You don't know what you are going to do! You don't even know where you are going! He's a nice man but sure glad he's not married to my daughter. That is what many Christians would think or say!

Faith is trusting God, when things don't seem to make sense or add up. (DDH's interpretation) I'm glad that I can trust God! Some decisions are hard, simply because of wanting to make sure that the decision is God's will, but when we know what God wants, faith says, "I'm going to do it, even when it doesn't seem to make sense." God has never failed me and even though I've not always understood why God said to do such and such, He's always been faithful and months and years later, I begin to realize, my Father knew exactly what was best. That's the God I serve. I can trust Jesus! Praise God!