Responding to the Call to Red Oak, OK

The Lord has been dealing with Jackie and me, to become more involved in mission work. We have been participating on a minimal level since 1998, making a trip at least once a year. I will list all the places we have been with the dates just for our record and may be of interest to others.

Playa Del Carmen, Mexico 1998
North Bend, Oregon 1999
Jackie had a heart attack and open heart surgery 2000
Filipe de Carrillo Puerto, Mexico 2001
Toledo, Oregon 2002
House of Prayer, Cuba, New Mexico 2003
Pine Hill Baptist Church, Cuba, New Mexico 2004, 2005, 2006
Panfork Camp, Texas 2007
Independence, MS 2008
Red Oak, OK 2008
These are trips that I went on. Some of these Jackie did not go on. He has gone many construction trips without me. (But that was before we had a camper-Ha) I did not keep a record of those trips. I'll see if he can remember them and add them to the list accordingly.

We first started working with Randy Carruth on a trip to Mexico. It was great. God is really using Randy in a great way. We had several people from our church go with us and I got to go with my mom and see her in action. It was Randy's 2cd mission trip. Randy is the director of I Am Able Ministries. Take a look at this website for more detailed information and pictures of work being done.

My mother has been a big influence in getting Jackie and I involved in this ministry. She has a burden for the children and teaches using Child Evangelism Fellowship methods and materials. I have received training from Ken and Lynn Bigalow and my mother through the years. Ken and Lynn were the state CEF directors for many years and held weekly training classes that I attended. The work in Mexico went well because we focused on the children and with them came the adults.

Yesterday, we were planning on going on vacation for our own pleasure until we got a call to go back to Oklahoma to help finish a new santuary for the Choctaw people, Cedar Baptist Church.That's where we want to go anyway. We had planned a trip in May, but Jackie was knocked off his feet with a heart arrythmia. He is up and going now and feels God calling him to work in OK. Our friend and mission's co-worker called and said hey, we are going to OK instead of AL. That's ok with us. So now we are getting ready for a trip to OK. We went last year and did several things. I will put up a slide show of that trip to give you an idea of what we are doing. This was our first trip the Red Oak, OK. The foundation for the slab was finished, VBS was successful, and also held a revival at night. Our church, Holloway had 9 people serve. There were teams from 3 other churches there. It was quiet a large group of folks. July 14-18 2008

Our camping volunteer missionary buddies are Donnie and Nancy Daniels. We are both taking our campers to the church site. Our last visit Jackie and I stayed at a camp with our team because there were so many of us but it was really hard on us to travel and work. The camp was about 30 miles from the church through hilly roads. Thank God for the camper that we can use this time around. Donnie and Nancy got to use their camper on this trip.
Jackie is working hard now to get the camper ready while I mess with the computer. He told me to do some of this and some of this is my idea. But things are popping. I got 2 job assignments today without much difficulty. One is to get some business cards for I Am Able and the other is to check out screen print tee-shirts. so I'm glad to be working again on some projects for I Am Able. I was the secretary for a while but I was too far from Randy to be able to help him do the everyday stuff. Evelyn Wells is now serving that role.