Thursday, September 21, 2006

God's Providence (continued)



Alot has happened since my last post, but to continue my story, we lived in Texas for 2 years until my husband felt God was calling him to be a preacher so we packed all our belongings and moved to Florence, Ms. and stayed until 1981, he gratuated in 1979 and we stayed another 2 years while he attended seminary. Meanwhile we were blessed with another son, Christopher in 1977 and then 3 years and 10 months later another son Benjamin who was born in 1980. We probably would have stayed longer in Missisippi but 17 months after Benjamin was born our first daughter was born in 1982. We moved back to Texas 6 months before she was born and stayed there until 1988 and then moved to a little town in Ohio and lived there for 9 years before we moved to Florida to learn how to own and operate a Christian preschool. Our youngest son Thomas was born in 1989 and our youngest daughter Abigail was born in 1994 on Valentine Day both in Ohio. They keep us busy trying to keep up with them as Thomas is a senior this year and plays football for the FCS Knights and Abigail stays busy with Taekwondo where she is currently a probationay black belt at 12 years old. It seems that God had prepared us all these years to operate a preschool. As a pastor Perry has ministered to many families and now he still is ministering to young families as he counsels and helps with child rearing questions with the many young families we serve every day. Even when he was a pastor I was involved with children's ministeries. I have served as Sunday School teacher, Vacation Bible School Director and with six children we have helped care for not only ours but our children's friends were frequent guests in our home. We both love our job and are thankful God has given us the privilege to work with these precious little ones.