Rhiana and Jordan are doing really well back at school. Rhiana is now in 10th Grade High School and studying Art, French and Chemistry this year. Jordan is now in 8th Grade Middle School and taking High School classes in Math and Science.
REVIVE is still crazy busy and we are just in the process of taking on a new venue - it will be called RESTORE and will be our 'Sale Shop' and also be the venue for RESTORE offices for Trish and myself! We are excited about this - although it is making lots of extra work for Trev! Please pray for the work we are doing amongst the community - there are many people in need of help and lots of them are homeless. We are still taking cooked meals out, on our 'Friday Food Drop' to at least 7 homeless men and women in the area but we are aware of others (and are in the process of finding them!) Two of the guys we serve on a regular basis are regularly attending Jubilee Church and on the set up team, arriving at 7.45am to get things ready for the service! We have been amazed to see 3 of them complete ALPHA and are currently praying that God would add 'Cowboy' to us - we are helping to pay his weekly rent at a local motel, since he was struggling to survive the heat during the summer. Please pray that he finds some employment, so that we can get him set up with his own room before the winter sets in (believe it or not, it can get really cold in Atlanta!) Please also continue to pray for Kenna, she is the lady with the brain tumor that I mentioned earlier in the year. Kenna is now committed to Jubilee Church, volunteering at REVIVE and helping on our Friday Food Drop regularly. It has been wonderful to have her living with a family in the church and God is really blessing her. Please pray, however, that Kenna would know God's healing and that she would be granted her disability payment. She has been fighting for this for almost 3 years now and we currently have an attorney to help her. She lives on an incredibly small amount of money each month - not enough to even pay for one week's rent in a motel, but she remains so cheerful and is a blessing to everyone that knows her!
We have now converted our basement, enabling us to have more people live here (or come visit!) and that has been really useful over the past few months. Trev and I finished painting today and are now really looking forward to both his, and my, parents coming out to visit before the end of the year!
God has been so good and we are incredibly grateful for his continued blessing and grace in our lives. The challenges are numerous but we are excited about the plans that God has for Atlanta and we believe we are going to see some amazing answers to prayer as we walk into the promises he has for us this coming year!
We love you all very much and look forward to keeping in touch with you all over the next few months.
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