Last night was the closing program for AWANA. Barb had wanted the kids to memorize verses from John 10:1-15. Those were the Take It to Heart verses for this year about the good shepherd. She also wanted them to sing a song. Well then she made plans to not be there to practice with the kids in the weeks leading up to the program so she asked me to work something out. So I had them do the verses and before that to He Has Made Me Glad. So I practiced with the Kids. Last night I was very proud of them. They lined up in order. Sang the song with Brandon playing the piano. Then everybody said there verse in order by memory. The only exception was that Pete H didn't know the verse and read it off of a card (grrr) and Jon Golik said his verse before he was suppose to, but I managed to get him to correct that and let Max have his turn before him. Overall it was very nice!

Well I just got a call from Debbie M. She had all these wonderful things to tell me. She had a long talk with Pastor and Steve Eichelberger. Pastor prayed with her and gave her wise counsel that amounted to kick him out, he'll survive as long as you are supporting him he won't change. She said that when she went home she prayed and asked God to change A's heart about D. Then she went up and told David that she was disappointed in him that she couldn't pay her bills but he was living with them and not contributing anything and she told them that pastor wants to counsel with them as a couple so that they can see the difference between how they are acting in their relationship and how they should be conducting it. David didn't like that idea and go upset. Debbie went downstairs. Later Amanda came downstairs and told her mom that she had kicked him out. Debbie was very gracious to David and made sure he got to his mom's house and told him that she wanted him to stay off of drugs and to clean up his life. She said maybe then Amanda would feel differently about him. At Debbie's hearing the next day the public defender didn't show up. Debbie told them she just wanted to pay her bills and move on with life. They told her to pay her fine and her record would be clean. They want to go to church with me and I made an appointment to pick them up Sunday morning at 9:45. The Lord does answer prayer!