We have participated for several years in the Operation Christmas Child where a toy, school supplies, hygiene products such as soap and toothpaste are sent to children around the world as shoebox sized gifts. These are good, as the gospel story is presented at the time the kids receive the shoebox gift. This year we have been made aware of a great need for shoes, the health risks (hook worm and other parasites), foot deformation, and foot diseases that are caused from not having them. Feeling like the ability to send quality shoes that adjust for size and are durable with an average life span of five years, to help meet the shoe need of children for such a long time is an opportunity we can’t/shouldn’t pass up to bless, love on, and give to these children. It would be an overwhelming gift and blessing that I would wish someone would do for me if the roles were reversed. Our goal is to send a duffle bag (50 shoes) with a new friend that this endeavor has brought to our acquaintance, with covering the cost to get the additional bag to it’s destination so that it doesn’t impose any financial burden for her. All that being said we want to give you an opportunity to help too. theshoethatgrows.org gives you an opportunity on their website to get involved, you can help fill a duffle bag to Ecuador, Haiti, Ghana, Kenya, and other places around the globe. If you are family or a close friend who were wondering what you could get a family traveling the states with five people, one big dog, with only room for essential possessions all packed in a Toyota 4Runner for Christmas. Here you go! You can get 1 pair for $10 each, providing shoes for $2 per year for kids in need. You can contribute to the shoes going to Uganda which would be awesome by contacting us at owensendeavors@gmail.com or my messenger on Facebook. Yay! It isn’t the front lines (yet…I say that just for Donna’s sake. I love you Donna), but let us pray daily that The Lord will use us for his purpose.
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Victorville California is our next “home”
Aiming to be a little closer to family for the holiday season, we have accepted our next assignment in the Western state of California. 97 miles from my grandparents home, I’m excited to announce, “Grandma Lawhead, I’ll be home for Christmas!!!!” Oh, and New Years too! 12/1-2/28.
It’s looking like California
We have been going through the process of applying for positions and interviewing, which is surprisingly not painstaking. I may be strange but I kind of like to interview. We have two offers now, both in California, so we should know in the next few days where we will head next.
Big Plans or Day of Rest? What Would Dave Ramsey Say?
We haven’t done nearly as much traveling and touristy things this assignment. We have still done a lot but have had to put the reins on a bit. As many of you know we like to follow (but could do a lot better) the “Dave Ramsey Plan” because of this we need to save up for things that we want or need and we work to keep a healthy emergency fund since we have no credit card to fall back on. We dug into our Emergency fund a bit (a lot more than I want to admit) in New Mexico, so we are trying to find a more realistic balance. Also there are signs besides the number on the odometer read out in our car that starting to save up for out next vehicle would be prudent. As we are down to only three weeks left here in Wisconsin there are a few things left that I would love to do. This makes the choice so hard, but it is going to cost a lot to drive back to Salem, be off for a week, and then drive on to our next assignment and get set up there. For that reason we will probably playing things pretty tight for the rest of the time here if we do go on another adventure it will be one of the many locations that have been recommended by patients that the main cost is the gas to get there and back or a nearby museum in Green Bay that is reasonably priced and highly recommended. I had initially thought it would be a good day to do one of those things, but honestly we were all tired and slept in and then Chad and Hannah needed to go grocery shopping while Caleb, Eve and I cleaned the house and by then it was noon. Caleb was dragging himself around at the thought of doing any work and so we decided that we didn’t need to go do anything fun today. We would just enjoy it as a day of rest. We had left overs for lunch, the kids finished the dishes and by then the house was looking pretty good. We made caramel apples, which was pretty fun.
We had a few movies we had checked out from the church library so the kids settled down first to watch Hermie and then two on the biblical account of the origin of man and the Big Bang theory not directly by Ken Ham but they are connected in some way to his ministry. To my amazement the two older kids were pretty fixated and interested in the topics verbalizing their thoughts on the topic. I fell asleep in the living room at the end of the movies. Chad woke me up for dinner. I was feeling a little rough, so Chad encouraged me to head to bed after dinner as he read Arabian Nights to the kids. I guess we needed a day of rest more than we thought. All in all I’m not sad we didn’t make it to the museum or national lake shores that are on our list. It was a good day and just what we needed. Goodnight.
Family Movie Night
Yay! Family movie night is finally here.
This years feature film was “Planet of the Apes”.
Chad ordered take out Chinese food as a special treat.
We made some yummy caramel pop corn to enjoy during the movie.
Hannah showed us her new balloon blower upper invention.
Then we all sat around the computer and enjoyed the show.
We opted for a second movie since we were having so much fun and the kids were being so enjoyable, so “Monsters University” won out over “Ice Age.”
Then the kids went to bed and Chad and I watched, “The Shop Around The Corner.”
Owens Endeavors 