Hurry Up Spring!!!

Hello everyone. Hope this finds you all well.. unfortunately I know many have been sick. The flu has invaded our family, although not in my house, two of our kids families have been down with it. In fact, we had to cancel our plans to visit our TN kids this weekend because everyone is sick. Daniel is doing better, but its a very hard hit when it comes. He missed several days of work, but is back on the rebound now.

As far as church goes, we had a Sweetheart banquet earlier this month, and a Family Confernece last weekend with Bro. David Sommerdorf. This week starts our ODACS Bible and Fine Art compeitions, which will take almost the whole month of March. I get to hlep judge in the art department with crafts and textiles, which I enjoy. In the next few weeks we have two new churches starting up, based out of our church. One is local, in Loudon County, VA, and one in Springdale, Arkansas. We have beed phone calling for one church for a few months now with very good results. The next three Saturdays we are canvassing and then the first service is on March 16. Mike is taking a group from church to AK the week before the first service is held there in April. Its exciting to see just how the Lord is working in allowing our church to help with all these new start up churches, and a priviledge to be a part of. The churches in Arizona, North Carolina, and Virginia are doing very well also.

Family news: Joel is back to work after being off for 6 weeks due to the weather. Its still cold tho!! He and his dad went to West Virginia with some of the other Tangeman clan on a ski trip.. they had great fun!
Josh and Wendy are keeping the TN front moving. Spring is always a busy time in their ministry. Pray for them so they can get over this flu bug that has hit their county with a vengence.
Daniel and Kristi are doing good also. Kristi has a couple more bouts with the emergency room, and the drs are still trying to figure out how to help her. She really likes the dr she has now, and he is helping her alot. We praise the Lord for that blessing! Daniel started his own business last summer, and so far it has provided enough work for him. Its a home improvement type business.. and it seems everyone needs that around here!
We had three birthdays in Feb.. Joel turned 31 on the 5th, Jeremy turned 2 on the 14th, and Seth turned 7 on the 24th! We have been having lots of parties!

Have a great week, and keep up all of your blogs!! Its so fun to read what everyone has been up to. We love you all!!

Hello everyone! I hope your New Year is going well so far. We have been extremely fortunate so far in our area of the USA, we have had a very very mild winter and in fact the temps broke a record yesterday! It seems more like spring for several days then back to winter. We have not had hardly any snow, so it does not seem like REAL winter.

I have had the kids the past few days because Kristi has been sick again. I took a few pictures of the boys so thought I would post a few. They surely keep me on my toes. Please continue to pray for her. The dr. gave her a possibility of three things this could be and they are in the process of trying to find out what the problem is so they might be able to help her more.

The Wildgame Supper was in January and we again had a great turnout. There were 19 men who accepted the Lord as their Savior. We had a nice surprise this year, as Mike's brother Tim, and our good friend Bill Slone came for the Supper and spent the weekend with us. We had a really fun time, well.. they did. Joel brought his Wii over and they spent several l hours trying to outdo one another. On Monday they went hunting and Bill shot two deer to take home.

This weekend is our Sweetheart Banquet at church. The theme this year is "Take Me Out to the Ballgame!" Mike spends countless hours working on all the details of these banquets, and they always turn out so nice. These two come very close together. I am sure everyone will have a good time. We have a record number of people coming this year too.

Till next time... we love all you guys!