July 24th, 2012 - R&R M&M

Hey ladies!

Thanks to you who helped us by signing up for dropbox... a few folks signed up/installed the app (who didn't already have it) so we're heading in the right direction.  Video files are large so that's why we're hungry for space as Barb prepares for the move to Japan.  If you didn't sign up for and install dropbox yet, but want to help M&M get more space for free, use this link:  http://db.tt/QwapugKu

Barb's poor voice recorder ran out of juice during the middle of class last week- boo hoo!  You may hear it sort of cut off before we pick it back up with a "previously recorded episode" of Amanda and the Dragon. :)

Download this week's lesson if you missed it here:  July 24, 2012

SO many praises this week.  PRAISE that little Noah Werner was able to safely come home from the hospital!  PRAISE that the Bindewalds are now 100% supported and officially heading to Japan!  PRAISE our Heavenly Father for all He has done and continues to do.  Does anyone have any special stories regarding how any of our verses spoke to them over the past couple of weeks?  Share them with me so we can encourage one another in the word!

Please continue to pray for M&M as we're all a tizzy trying to get things figured out for the fall, and especially pray for Barb during this exciting but chaotic time!

Love to you all,

Leslie

Reminder- VBS Week!

Just a quick reminder-  We will be cancelling M&M classes this week since our VBS will be going on, so please make a note that there will be NO classes on Monday 7/16 or Tuesday 7/17, but we will resume the following week, July 23rd and 24th.

If you can, please consider helping with VBS in some way as it is a wonderful ministry to our next generation.  One of my dear friends (Jessica Ryan) became a Christian through a VBS way-back-when and oh how she loves the Lord now.

Could you, your spouse, your teenagers, your friends, etc. consider assisting with the set up or tear down?  It's an easy way to serve and many hands make light work! :)

Set up:  Saturday, July 14th, 8:30am (usually finishing up before lunchtime)
Tear down:  Saturday, July 21st, 8:30am (again, usually finishing before lunch)

Have a blessed week!

Leslie

R&R M&M #5

Hey Ladies!

I hope you've had a wonderful week chewing on His Word.  We've been having a great time planning and praying for the future of M&M...thanks to all of you who were praying along with us.  Do any of you have any stories or "God Sightings" (as Barb calls them) from this week?  Please share with me if so- we'd love to encourage others through your experiences and/or anecdotes regarding how the Word was illuminated to you.

Without further adieu, I leave you with a link to this week's class!  Enjoy!

Click Here

Blessings,

Leslie

R&R M&M Week 4

Good evening, ladies!

I hope you've had a wonderful week.  I want to share a quick anecdote with you. We've been going through a bit of a stressful time and I had asked Barb to pray for me as I found myself becoming a little "bitter" about a situation we had going on with a contractor and that my heart was being hardened.  Anyhow, the verse that really spoke to me in this particular situation is Isaiah 51:3-

"The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord.  Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing".

My attitude in this situation has made my "walk" look like a wasteland or desert, but I do pray that God will restore my personal little wasteland to a garden like state because He is willing and able and would delight in doing so! To add to this, my heart melted when my little 19 month old little girl Emily started spontaneously singing (quite often this week) her version of "Holy Holy Holy".  Granted it sounds like "Ho-he, ho-he, ho-he" over and over again, but it really helped me put things in perspective in a lot of ways!  What a beautiful thing.  I pray that all of you have also found nuggets of God's wonderful goodness amidst any trials you may be going through.  M&M certainly helps with that as we chew on the delicious morsels of His Word!


Here's the link to this week's class. Did you get a chance to watch Barb's YouTube video?  Check it out if you missed my last email!


Love to you all!  Please pray for us as we'll be meeting this week regarding the future of M&M this week.  If you are interested in helping out with the M&M ministry in any way, please let us know.


Leslie


Week #4 Class - Download Here
Barb's First Video 

Do you see your smiling face in this video?

Hey M&Mer's!

Barb is in NC so our recording of this week's class might be coming a little late, but we wanted to go ahead and share a special video with you.  As you know, when M&M goes "abroad", Barb will be making video recordings of our classes in the future.  How cool is that?  We're trying to get the hang of how this will work so Barb has made her very first video.

Do you see your smiling face in this video?  Watch to find out...  And if you DON'T see your face, please send me your picture asap! :)

Love to you all-

Leslie

Week 3

Good evening ladies!

I know this info is coming entirely too late in the week, but I'm thankful that you have learned over the past year or so to extend much grace to your weary little online captain. :)  Here are the quick links for this week!

*  This week's class
*  "The Apprentice Juggler" story (read last semester, uploaded again for your listening pleasure)

I hope you all have a wonderful week!  Don't forget- M&M @ Jamestown Coffee Monday night at 6:45pm, and Tuesday afternoon 12pm in LPC Sr. High Room!

Leslie

Weeks 1 & 2 (R&R M&M)

Hey everyone!

I'm sorry that I'm getting this kicked off a week late, but we wanted to trim down the recordings and such.  We have two weeks down, and the summer is already flying by!

I have uploaded the recordings- quick links here! :)

* Week 1 - June 12

* Week 2 - June 19

Keep reviewing and chewing!  Love to you all!