The Ray Workman Family: Happy Birthday, Abby!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Happy Birthday, Abby!

It's hard to believe a year could go by so quickly! It seems like just yesterday we were holding a newborn ~ and to think that this past weekend we celebrated her 1st birthday! Yes, precious little Abigail has turned one. : )

Within a short time of our arrival, Uncle Ray already had her trying on his hat. : )

For 1st birthdays, the birthday baby gets the cake first. It's so much fun watching their reaction to something completely new to them! Some are hesitant and want no part of it, but others, like Abby, waste no time getting the hang of it. : )

Hmmmm......I've never had anything quite like this before!

I think I like this cake business!

Just a happy-go-lucky little girl

A thousand words? This picture is worth millions! : )

My tongue won't quite reach, Mommy....

Time to blow out the candles!

Nice foot rest...

Need a face lift? Call 1-800-ABI-GAIL

After the cake festivities were finished, we had pizza, and then all adjourned to the living room for presents to be opened.

Big Sister

It's a mother/daughter thing : )

Grandma and Grandpa Workman

Awwwwwww!!! How sweet!

Allison had made a hat for Abby, so we decided to try it on her for size.

She wasn't quite sure what to make of it at first, but then she figured it out.....

Off with it! : )

One proud daddy of two precious girls : )

Great Pa Paw and Pa Paw Keen

Great Ma Maw

Christina and Grandma Keen

Father/Son

After a long, full day, Abby was ready for a bottle and bed. No problem! Aunt Allison to the rescue! : )

We spent the night at Al and Angie's house, so the sisters had an impromptu pajama party. : ) Allison whipped out the brush and hair bows, and, in no time, Angie's hair was turned from perfect and styled to.......well......let's just say that Allison had no mercy. : ) : )

And the next morning.....

What a sun-shiny baby!

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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)