Dear Ones,

                 I am so thankful this Thanksgiving season.  I have a list of things!  I’m thankful to be alive in this day and age and to be a part of what God is doing on the Earth in these last days.  I’m thankful and grateful to God for who He is, and all that He has done!  I am hard put to express in words all of what that entails.  But if you think back to Who HE is and what HE has done for each of you individually, I am sure you’ll find it hard to put into words too!  And I am thankful for everyone who has helped us do what has been accomplished thus far!

               God is literally running us over with His goodness.  I’ve heard it said by preachers about the “blessings of God overtaking you” but now I am seeing it happen, again and again!  I am watching a new level of His favor being manifested in our lives.  I’ve experienced God’s favor in lots of different situations in the past, but what has been released is beyond what I’ve ever experienced before.  I am witnessing the windows of Heaven being opened also, and blessings being poured that are “too much to contain!”  I am beholding the Glory of God wrapped up in His goodness to me!

               It was said in a prophetic meeting that if Jesus is lifted up, men would be drawn unto Him, but they would also be drawn unto us because as we raise Jesus higher, we also ascend into higher realms with Him.  At the time I didn’t think too much about it, but looking at what He has been doing, I would have to concur.  People are being drawn, and sometimes they don’t even know why, but it is Jesus! 

  God is binding the Body together, and causing us to be ONE!   People from many other churches have come forward to be a part of God’s heart and hands in reaching out to those He has put on our heart to help.  I rejoice and thank God for each and every one of you!  There are many surprises, what a dear friend has termed “whodathunkits,” that just come along and totally blow me away!  I am running to keep up with all that God is doing!

Now to Him who, in exercise of His power that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely beyond all our highest prayers or thoughts—to Him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, world without end! Amen. Eph. 3:20-21(WNT) 

Recent developments along these lines include a countywide advertising program supplied and run by two local merchants here in our hometown!  Flyers detailing some of our needs and the current winter drive we are doing went out to 3000 households.  Also donation cans have been put up at their store locations as well as drop boxes to collect hats, gloves, coats and vitamins, and who knows what else!  A special “ThankYou” to American Home and Hardware and City Pharmacy for this wonderful blessing! Flyers were also put on the checkouts at the hardware and the Lions Club just contacted me to donate crutches, walkers and such! 

The house still holds over 26 boxes of donated goods, waiting to be opened and counted and cataloged and sorted into destinations.  Karen’s basement holds another 27 or more also waiting to be cataloged and shipped.  As you know, things going into Ukraine require us to pay for shipping.  So if the Lord leads you to help with a special offering to get these things shipped, please know it will be an answer  to prayer, a blessing to many and a seed sown that will reap a wonderful harvest in your own life! 

I pray that the blessings of God overtake you this season of thanksgiving, but more importantly, that HE Himself overtake and overwhelm you with His own presence and majesty!  From a heart that is humbled and awed by HIM, I wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving that is full to overflowing with love, laughter, food, friends and family and that you experience the reality of and the wonder of the Family that we are so blessed to be a part of that stretches over the whole globe and extends into Heaven itself!

                Love and Blessings to you and yours from both of us!

                                        Nancy and Tom