The Ray Workman Family: ( : Seeing is Believing : )

Saturday, January 30, 2010

( : Seeing is Believing : )

When we awoke, everything was covered with a blanket of snow. There were several inches, so we piled on the layers, then piled out the front door to go sledding.

One of the hardest things to do is to take pictures with snow gloves on. : )

Preparing to head down the road.

Business 74/King St.
This is the main thoroughfare through town

And off we go!!!

Did he get tired?

Smile!

Always wanting to get a little more adventurous....

Okay, Ray.....maybe that's going a little bit too far.

Is it cold???

This sledding session has come to an end. : ( It was so bitter cold outside that two didn't last even 15 minutes! The remaining four toughed it out until lunch time.

The playground across from our house

Our house

Toward dusk, the brave four trudged down to the sledding hill once again.

Allison's one and only time down the hill

It has snowed all but a few hours today. As night was coming on, the temperature began to drop rather rapidly. Seeing as how it was already below freezing during daylight hours...... Brrrrrrr!!! It is supposed to get down to 15 degrees tonight.

3 comments:

Brent said...: Ok now I believe it was snow and not sleet. I was surprised not to see a very large sled that Ray Jr talked about using. It is located in my backyard.; January 31, 2010 at 9:08 AM
Ray Workman Family said...: I had thought about it, but I didn't have time to get it......besides, the townspeople probably would have thought aliens had invaded if we were seen going down the hill on a satellite dish.

Hey, I bet it would make a great fish pond!

Ray; January 31, 2010 at 11:06 AM
Brent said...: I still think you should get it and then take a picture with the entire family sitting on the disk. It could then be used as the cover photo on a CD of "Christmas Songs by The Workman Family". By the way, we got a total of 42 inches of snow the last five days and have received over 70 inches for the year.; February 11, 2010 at 7:01 PM

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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)