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Upcoming Surgery

As we prepare for yet, another surgery in Salt Lake City to get the metal out of Ella's hip/leg, I can't help but be filled with joy today!  This little girl, who we were told we would never get a chance to meet, is filling our home with happy sounds of laughter and singing everyday!  Even now, she is bouncing around with crimped piggy tails that are bouncing around on the top of her head like fluffy pom poms while singing "Oh I Just Can't Wait To Be King" from The Lion King.  What amazing symbolism can be seen in this little picture of her signing about being royalty: because of the fact that Ella has accepted Christ into her heart as her Lord and Savior, she really is royalty.  A precious princess; God's daughter.  And because of her little life, countless others have seen God's amazing power and saving grace.  We send all glory, honor and praise to Him today!

Our family is committing, daily, to serve Jesus wholeheartedly until His magnificent return and then again in eternity.  Will you join us in prayer for Ella's surgery this week?   Even more important, will you (if you haven't already) commit your hearts to Him, Jesus Christ, and become heirs with us, royalty in Jesus through His blood on the cross, and serve Him with all that you are until the day He comes to take us to His kingdom?

"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.  After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.  And so we will be with the Lord forever." - 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17


Jesus' words: "At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn.  They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory.  And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other." - Matthew 24:30-31



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