The Ray Workman Family: Birthday Surprises

Monday, November 9, 2009

Birthday Surprises

This past Thursday was a revolutionary day in the nation's history...

It's the only time Ray will ever turn 28! : )

In light of this special event, our sweet friend and hostess in Deale, MD sent him a gift in a very unusual but very intriguing package.....a Coke bottle!

He had to figure out how to get to all the goodies without cutting it open. Very fitting for Ray who is forever taking things apart and tinkering to the detriment of many a hapless article that his over bounding curiosity led him to disassemble to see just how it was put together.

Yes, it actually came like that!

Hmmmmmm..........

Aha! He's just too good at tinkering. He was supposed to think he had to cut it open and we'd stop him before he did, but his close inspection of the bottle saved us the "trouble".

The trap door was hidden behind the address label.

Now to pull it all out....

Just gotta love his new attire! : ) Sorry, Ray.....it's not big enough to cover your "high lights". : )

Still working....(it's a little bit difficult trying to pull things out all the while trying to balance something on the head!)

Now to get the note out.

That was a really neat idea! Thank you, Mrs. Brown!

Already enjoying....

Happy Birthday, Ray!!!!

1 comment:

Ann Brown said...: LOL LOL I laughed thru the whole slide.... You ate the candy bar...but you are suppose to color with the crayons and carry the key chain (Watch out for Valerie snatching it!) in you pocket....not on your glasses. Glad you all had fun with the bottle. Amazing that they let that go thru the Postal system, isn't it. Take care and God Bless...
Ann Brown; November 12, 2009 at 6:18 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)