The Ray Workman Family: Camping Firebug Goes Bananas!

Monday, November 10, 2008

Camping Firebug Goes Bananas!

Last weekend (Nov. 6-8), our family went camping!! We haven't been camping in several years, but the Lord blessed us with a few days to get away. Oh, sure, we "practiced" with an overnight stay several weeks ago : ), but this time we got to stay two nights.....thus allowing time to build a campfire and do all the other "campin' stuff" as well.

Allison was dubbed the firebug. : ) Really, it's a miracle she was even able to tolerate the smoke let alone constantly mess in the fire. She certainly enjoyed it!! It was her job to gather everything we would need to start the fire -- kindling, wood, pinecones, etc.

Soap, ple-e-e-e-ease!!

The fire required our undivided attention for several hours, but once it started burning the actual wood and not just the kindling, even the rain didn't put it out.

The first thing you think of when building a campfire is roasting marshmallows, but, not having any of those on hand, we opted for roasted apples and bananas. : )

Instead of playing "Where's Waldo" we can play "Where's the Banana". : )

Mmmmmmmmmm..........what can compare with eating of the "fruit of your labors"? ...no pun intended! : )

Ray, Sr., Ray Jr., and Sara spent some time on our land that Friday and Saturday scouting it out and seeing exactly what was around. So while the cats were away, the mice, of course, played. The remaining few visited the little museum at the campground which told about the surrounding "bay areas".

We also walked out on the pier. The Cypress trees growing out of the water were so beautiful in their fall colors!

Can you see the bottom of the lake?

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"But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."

Job 23:10

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Ray was born into a very poor family. His father was a drunkard and went to prison when Ray was a young boy. When he was 8 years old, his family was torn apart, and the children were separated and sent to different foster homes. It was just a few months after this transition in his life, that he trusted Christ as his Savior. At the age of 16, he was taken out of the foster home, and sent to a boy's home. There, he was required to attend the church across the road from the home. He met Wanda at this church, and they were married the day before his 18th birthday. They continued in that same church for 23 more years. In 1992, the Lord used circumstances to begin moving them out of that church, and they began attending a church where the Gospel was preached. Ray started growing in the Lord, and realized the need to surrender his whole life to the Lord. In May of 1993, God called him to preach, and he completed his training at Ambassador Baptist College in May, 2002.
Wanda was raised in a well respected family. She was in church all of her life, but never heard that you must trust Christ and His shed blood ONLY or the consequence would be to spend an eternity in Hell when you die. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." (Romans 3:23-28) When she heard the Gospel preached, it was much different than what she had been taught all of her life. The Lord was faithful, and continued to convict her heart and show her she could never "earn" salvation (baptism, Catechism, communion, church membership, or good works). After about two months of hearing the Gospel, she trusted Christ as her Savior.

"...old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

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God has burdened our hearts to plant churches in Bladen County, NC. Our highest aim in life is to glorify our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and to point others to a saving knowledge of Him by grace through faith: "and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9)