The Ray Workman Family: Ish-be-nashty! (...But We Voted!)

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Ish-be-nashty! (...But We Voted!)

Today was the girls' day out....all because we voted! : ) We planned our route well, first going to the places where we just had to show our I Voted stickers as opposed to giving them up. Our first stop was at Books-a-Million to get our free Cup o' Joe hazelnut coffee (sweetened with stevia, of course). We're not coffee drinkers, but, hey, it was free! It's not every day that you get to take a girls' day out for FREE!

Our next stop was Krispy Kreme to get our free star-shaped, iced doughnuts with sprinkles on top. We even got free hats! I must insert here that we haven't been eating sugar....some of us for up to two and a half months. You would be shocked at how fast your taste changes! The unanimous vote??? "Ish be nashty!"

We were ready for a change of tastes by then. No more sugar!....we thought. : ) Chicken sandwich, here we come! And where would you go to get a chicken sandwich???? Chick-fil-a, of course! We went to the Chick-fil-a in the mall in Gastonia only to find that they weren't honoring the "get a free chicken sandwich if you voted" deal. : ( But they did give us a sticker for a free large coke! : )

Logically, our only recourse was to head to Shelby where they simply could not refuse us the coveted goodies.....right?!? As you can tell, we were duely rewarded for our perserverance. It was about 1:30 by then, and we were ready for lunch!

On our way home, we stopped by the Chick-fil-a in the Shelby mall and got some chicken sandwiches there. Ray Sr. and Jr. were going to be hungry when we got home! Some, as you can see, were hungry enough as it was. : )

Good times must always come to an end, and we were becoming a little weary of being indulgent voters. Make the best of the opportunity, we thought, as it only comes but once in a blue moon. I know, I know, "Yield not to temptation".....but as Mom says, " I wasn't tempted ~ I knew I was going to do it." : ) Besides, we had some pretty happy menfolk when we got home! : )

What a treat after a hard day at work!!

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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)