The Ray Workman Family: Each Day is a New Beginning

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Each Day is a New Beginning

Today marked the first day of the new schoolyear for Allison. 9th grade..... Wow!!! She had prepared for this day a couple weeks ago, so this morning she got up bright and early ready to whisk right through it. Her morning consisted of Bible reading, practicing her trumpet, math, science, history, reading, spelling, and English with a few breaks here and there. By lunchtime, she had finished all her work and was free the rest of the day!

Now that Sara has graduated, Allison is the only one still in school. It seems a little odd not having so many books scattered about......

While Allison perused the pages of her schoolbooks, the rest of us persued other challenges of the everyday life such as picking vegetables from our garden. The Lord has provided us with fresh vegetables in abundance all through the summer, and even now, when the garden is almost all dried up because of the parching sun, we still got enough greenbeans for a good-sized meal, several tomatoes, and quite a few hot banana peppers..... and, as always, the kittens were right in the middle of everything! Curious little things!

After supper, we finished getting our prayer letters ready for mailing. We formed an assembly line and the task went quickly. As the saying goes, "many hands make light work", and willing hands make the work enjoyable. What a fun time we had working together!

M&M's taste better than glue, y'know!!!

2 comments:

Huron Family said...: How fun! Thanks for letting us know...

We might have a few things you can post...what about that video clip of olivia doing Kiesha's hair?? =)

Love you girls,
The Sisters; September 4, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Anonymous said...: I didn't know that you had a garden!!!
I love your blog!! Thank you for letting us know!!

Alexis
-One of the Sisters; September 4, 2008 at 9:46 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)