Baptism

~This past Sunday we went to the city for Auckland Bible Baptist Church's service and Emmaline, Ezra, and Nicolea were Baptized. After the serves there was a light tea and everyone stayed around and talked for a while. We all enjoyed the whole day, the fellowship was great. We all had a wonderful time up there. Here are some pictures of our past Sunday that I thought I would share with you all.

Ezra

Emmaline

Nicolea


Singing at Baptism!

We sang "I've Been Changed" at the baptism!

During church, we played "Tis so Sweet" and sang "In the Garden!"

The younger girls sang "Jesus Loves Me." They did a great job!!!

We sang "A Mighty Fortress is Our God."

PRAISE THE LORD!!!

Well, we received a phone call today that said that they will be giving us our visas so we can stay for another year. The Lord has answered ours and your prayers once again in allowing us to stay here for another year and tell the dear people in New Zealand that the Lord Jesus Christ died to save them! We are so thrilled to have God entrust us with another year to serve HIM! God is so good to us!!!

Happy 15th Birthday Emmaline!

Happy Birthday to a wonderful sister!

We love you!!!

Elianna and Emmaline

P.S. Thanks for the help with the pictures Elianna!!!

Bible Club Update

Our Bible Club is going wonderfully! We all enjoy it immensely! We continue to have new children stop in and others that come regularly! Most of the kids seem to enjoy it and listen quite a bit. They always enjoy song time in which they all sing very well and enjoy taking turns holding up the songs that Mom has written out. During lesson time most of them sit quite well and watch the felts and listen to the Dad and Mom as they teach. A few times they have had the privalage of Elianna doing a chalk drawing for them too.

They are all working on verse memorization. We have goal cards with about five verses on each that they are working on. When they finished the first one they also receive with there Certificate of Completion a BIBLE, which has been the big motivator for them! The first gaol card (Romans 3:23; 6:23; 10:10, John 1;12; 20:31) has been competed by six of the children all sence the beginning of the year. We haveWe all enjoying working with them as they memorize their verses. They are all so different; some have a harder time memorizing and others can do several verses a day. We have one girl who was telling me one day that the reason that her goal card was so rinkled was because she falls asleep working on her verses so the paper got a bit worn out. But what better why for her to fall asleep reading the Word of God!

Dad presentingperesenting Ajay and Mikayla with there Certificate of Completion and Bible.

Mikayla with her certificate and Bible!!!

Shequelia, Nicolea and Mercy finished the same week!

Shiquelia

They often call Dad the "Trust Jesus Guy" as this is what he wares to club!

These three girls are so cute! No, this is not the best picture as this was snapped during the lesson.

The Wise Man and the Foolish Man lesson.

Elianna chalking during the lesson!

The finished product!

Ok, yes we do wear them out at Bible Club! Oh, well, the truth is they were having rolling contest down they hill.

The kids here are little monkeys!

Playing games! Yes, this picture is all Snyders, well and Elianna but we claim her!!!

L to R is Malachi, Matthew, Ezra, Mercy, Elianna, Felicity.

Elianna working Irini

Matthew and Ajay working on Memory verses.

Mom working on verses with some of the new kids!

Please Pray...

...for the Lord's will to be done with our paperwork and that He will guide all those who will handle it and make the decision whether they will issue our permits or not. We have now been in New Zealand for over eleven months, leaving twenty-seven days left on our visas. So it is now time to get our permits to be able to stay for the next two years. Today the paperwork was completed and turned in. We are praying to be able to stay for the next twenty-two months on permits, but more than anything we want God's will in our lives. Please pray that all goes well and that our permits will be issued in the Lord's timing.

The paperwork Dad and Mom completed this morning for the permits.

We each had to have our own permit. It was over a ream of paper.