The End

Hi Followers,

Since Shoreline has a new website up and there will be blogs for the ministries on that , and they have a facebook page as well, the time has come to say goodbye to this blog.

It was a wonderful way to keep in touch, and now there are even better ways, so we will move on to those.

I am not sure how to save all the posts, I will have to check that out.

God's blessings to you all.

New Shoreline web site & other stuff

Have you checked out the new website for Shoreline! It is really cool. There will be links to different ministry blogs and it will show up on the home page when a new post is up. Really a nice website, and easy to navigate.

The Women in Ministry had a Prayer and Bunko night. before each round we prayer for a specific subject listed. It was a great time of prayer and of fun! Lots of laughter.

The Missions night dinner went well and the interns all did a great job on the video presentations that they did for each of our missionaries.

We are gearing up for the All Church picnic/BBQ. The interns having been working hard to make it special. See the website for details!

Also if you are on facebook Shoreline has a web page. it is update regularly with info about events, and ministry opportunity.

We had visits from some out of towners who came back to say "Hi". It was great to see them!

Hope everyone is doing well!

God bless you!

Women's Conference- A Roman Holiday

The Women's Conference was fantastic!!!!! God was so present and obviously had worked in all the speakers as the teaching all tied together. We went though the book of Romans. No the conference wasn't a week long! God gave each of the women who taught exactly what HE wanted shared and we got through it in 5 sections. It was amazing! The LORD wove a theme and specific verses through all the teaching. I know that I look forward to listening to the recording of it to get more to sink in. We also had workshops on Discipleship , Inductive Bible Study and the Holy Spirit (who He is and what He does)

It was great to see the variety of women that God called to teach...I hope that others are blessed by that and realize that if they are available when the LORD calls they can be used by HIM, because HE is the power, not us! Thanks Jinell, Greta, Alison, Celeste, Sandra, Nicole and Erika for being available to God's call! You are such a blessing. =)

We decorated the stage and entrance with Luggage and maps and tour brochures, and had luggage tags with verses as 'favors'. And adorable journals that Jinell covered with maps. The art work for the posters and brochures was done by Laurie and it looked so cool! Robin came up with great ideas for the titles to keep with the theme (and all the other stuff she does!) and lunch from paneras! It was so Yummy! There were many other ladies that served in various ways , it was such a blessing.

We had a great time fellowshipping and getting in to the WORD of GOD!

It's about to get crazy!

It is hard to believe that February is already gone, where it went I haven't a clue! March is upon us and so is much planning and busy times. The planning for the move to London and E week. There will also be a team going to visit Meagan in Mexico and see all the cool stuff GOD is doing down there! What a blessing. I will try to get pictures to post from that.

People are still connecting with the London team and final preparations are still being made. They had a rummage sale which went well. The Agape-gram fundraiser went well too. Around 25 cheesecakes were ordered! Several of the team members have their tickets, thus departure dates. It is going to come really fast! I am excited to see how the LORD might already be preparing the people to hear the message that will be brought to them about Jesus! For those of you in the field you know best how to pray for the team, since you have been there!

E week looks to be another wonderful celebration of Jesus and what HE did for us. There will be a Christ centered Passover , prayer, a movie evangelism event, and the Resurrection Day event/service.

We are having another rain storm, it was pelting the house in the wee hours this morning. I am missing the goats as I watch the weeds and grass grow taller and taller! We already have an inch of rain from this storm! What a blessing, after three years of drought!

The youth groups got to have their snow trips this weekend and last, pray for Brian, he is fighting the bug that is getting everyone, and he leaves for Mexico on Monday. I will see if anyone has pictures for those events.

Chick in Action are planning the education panel event to help parents know what options are out there... this should be so cool. We will have different couples speaking about what they do as far as education for their children. It is still in the planning stages, but that is what we are thinking, pray that it will be what God wants. The Women's conference is in May. It is in the early planning stages.

Well that is a quick summary of the activities that I know about that are going on at Shoreline.

Praying that you all are doing well and drawing nearer to our LORD each day.

Safety

Dear Followers of Back at the Ranch.

We have tried to make this as private as we can with out making it invitation only. To that end we have removed it from being able to be found by search engine or the next blog feature. We would request unless you have an invitation only blog/website that you not put a link on your blog to this blog. We have some missionaries that we like to put on our pray for feature and they have to be VERY careful about being identified. It puts them at greater risk. So if you have us on you favorites or blogs we follow lists, could you please remove us.

We appreciate that you want to share, but it is safer to do it by word of mouth.

Thank you!

God bless you ,

Jana

It's February!

Wow can you believe it is Feb. already? Looks like we will fly through this year just like last year! Things are getting busy as we look to the plans for this year. The transition is moving forward. There will be a meeting tomorrow after church about the London church plant and how God is moving the team. The Women's ministry team met and were discussing events they are feeling led to have! We have care team meetings going on to get the London team cared for. And it looks like we are going to have a new batch of babies for the year! I can't believe how fast the other little ones are growing!

The P4 (If you haven't heard , yes they are expecting!) are getting settled back in Kisumu! We had such a wonderful visit with them. Looking forward to see what the LORD does in this season of ministry for them.

The London team is having a fun fund raiser. Agape-grams, a rose, a card and cheesecake! Does that say love? hopefully! Alycia is already planning how to decorate the cheesecakes with chocolate and white chocolate 'collars'.

We have rain!!! What a blessing the rain has been. We have had about 7 inches of rain in the last month...which we have so desperately needed! In fact it was pouring off and on this morning. The wind took down a tree which took down a fence on our property but it was easily chainsawed into pieces and the fence, being chainlink was put up fairly easy on to new posts. More firewood!

I hope everyone is doing well. If you have prayer requests let us know... we love being intercessors for you!

May the presence of our LORD be with you and may your walk with Jesus deepen daily.

Missions Conference

Hey all! The Missions conference was so amazing! It was my first time being there. What a beautiful location! It seemed like the perfect place for refreshment and renewal for those on the front lines.

For me the theme of the conference was keep your focus on the LORD not the situation, with much encouragement to stay in the Word and quiet time with the LORD.

I got to meet Jacob , Noelle and baby Grace, who have become so dear to us as they were in language training with the P3. I also had the honor and great pleasure of meeting and spending time with Ruth, a dear sister who also is in Kenya ministering to the needs of women and children there. We have been praying for her for a long time so it was fun to finally meet!

It was so cool to be on that big campus and see so many people in prayer. Spontaneous prayer. IT was really glorious! I know we see that a lot at Shoreline, this was just on a larger scale!

I had a great time hanging out with different members of the Shoreline team. Trista, Tobi and I were roomies and had lots of fun! I even picked up a few Trista mannerisms! :D

We also had great food, the previous participants from our team knew some fun places to eat. We had 'Pazookie' (sp?) twice! yep we lived up to the calorie chapel reputation!

All kidding aside it was a wonderful and powerful time with the LORD and seeing what HE is doing all over the world and in each of our lives.

God bless you all! And thank you for your example of obedience.

Jana