The Ray Workman Family: Seeing Things Through New Eyes

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Seeing Things Through New Eyes

"The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good."

Proverbs 15:3
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Being out of town, anything can happen. And it usually does. : )

We tried to glue Mom's glasses back together, but it didn't work. They were just too whopsided to see straight. : ) Aunt Crystal faxed her prescription, and she was able to get some nice-looking fairly cheap glasses within 24 hours. Praise the Lord!

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Mrs. Brown has a big Bartlett pear tree, and they're ripe! We've gotten a few of them to make this...

Oh! Sooooo good!!!
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Last week they got started on the roof. It's a lower pitch which calls for a little more bending. : )

When we got here, there was a little bit of a cooler spell, but as soon as they started roofing, the temperature shot up. Oh, well......we thought they would have good roofing weather. : )

It seems like this is the official head rag hanger. They just keep sweating them through!

Tuesday, Ray met with the adjuster to work some things out. Hopefully he gets back in touch soon so things can get moving on the other roof damaged by wind and hail.

Roof #1: The finished product

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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)