The Ray Workman Family: The Three Couponateers

Sunday, September 14, 2008

The Three Couponateers

"I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed."

Psalm 37:25-26

It is always amazing to see the many ways that the Lord provides for us. God has promised to meet each and every one of our needs and has been faithful to do that and bless abundantly more than we could ever ask or think! One of those ways that He has provided for us is through couponing. We would recommend you not trying this lest you become addicted to saving money.....LOTS of money. It takes some work and a little bit of brains here and there, but as in everything, what you get out of it depends on how much effort you put into it. Our Three Couponateers work very diligently, and (lucky us!) the whole family reaps the benefits of their labors. : )

It all starts Sunday morning with the Sunday paper......yes, all twelve of them. : ) Then comes the job of sorting them.

Mom is our "coupon-clipper". It only takes a short while before the coupons are all clipped and in neat little piles ready to be sorted into the books.

Then comes the brain work. What?!? You're getting all those groceries for.....FREE?!? Not to mention what you get for practically nothing! Our Three Couponateers do a great job!

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It simply would not seem right to ignore our cute little kitties. There are no "little guys" around our house anymore, so the kittens get their share of attention. Hardly an hour goes past that someone doesn't pass through the back porch, and we hear a cry of, "Oh! Come look at what the kitties are doing!" Of course, if we all stopped what we were doing every time we were supposed to "come look at the kitties" we would get nothing done, but there are generally a few takers. : )

They are soooooooo CUTE!!!!!!

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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)