The Shumaker Family’s Blog

We recently celebrated our third anniversary at Living Water Baptist Church.  I was so proud of our people.  They worked so hard.  The ladies worked all day Saturday preparing the food, and Sunday they came early to finish it.  Our young people worked on a skit about sin that was absolutely wonderful.  God has given us some of the hardest working people I know, and they love serving God.  I told our church people that I believe that God looked down from Heaven and smiled at the way they worked.  I am a proud pastor.

God blessed our efforts.  We had over 100 adults and over 150 kids.  We had close to 50 first time visitors.  There were 5 professions of faith with the adults, and 26 children made professions of faith.  God worked in tremendous ways.  It is amazing how God is bringing His church together.  I am excited and thrilled about the future.  He has already blessed, and I can’t wait to see what He is going to do next.

I never posted this article on our family conference.  Here it is a few days late:

On Monday night, we finished up our family conference.  God blessed in tremendous ways.  Pastor Austin Gardner preached and did a wonderful job.   He  talked about men mistreating their wives.  At the end of the service, we had three African couples come down and pray together.  This doesn’t sound like a whole lot to most but when you have never had it happen once before this week, three in one service is a lot.

At the very end of the service, a man stood up and asked for prayer and forgiveness.  He told us that he has recently hit his wife (unfortunately this happens all the time here).  He said that he did wrong and that they were heading for divorce.  This man told me this morning that they ate breakfast yesterday and today together.  He told me they haven’t done that is a very long time.  He said that they are talking again.