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Thankful for a nice Thanksgiving time. Our three college boys, Daniel & Christen, Benjy, and Jacob, are on their way back to Western Oregon University, Oregon State University, and Corban College respectively. Christen, Dan's wife, just got her MAT from Willamette University in May this year and is now teaching 3rd grade! She also plays the piano very well and they just got a piano! David teaches here at New Hope after 5 years at OIT in Klamath Falls in Software Engineering. Jonathan is an accountant with Deloitte and Touche in Portland. Joshua is teaching English at a University in China. Susanna & Priscilla make websites after getting degrees in Management Information Technology and Art/Graphic Design. Their husbands Dave Brown and David Dutton work in Computer and Laser Engineering. Praise God for our wonderful family! And praise God Who is and Who was and Who is to come.

Looking for my Liberace video for us to enjoy! Wow. So nice to hear him play. All of our kids took piano for most of their grade 1-12. God bless our piano playing!

www.letssaythanks.com to send a card to Iraq! The Xerox Corporation is doing this.

Thanksgiving Week. Believers have thanksgiving lives. Thanksgiving all day every day! It is very good to have special times set for thanksgiving and I love Thanksgiving. Hopefully it is also so much a part of our lives that Thanksgiving in November is a special part of our already ongoing thankfulness in our hearts. I challenged myself to write a lot of thanks on a small sticky note this morning - and got three lines of ten. It could be ten lines of 3oo for 3,000, or 100 lines of 300 for 30,000, or 1,000 lines of 300 for (adding zeroes) 300,000, or 10,000 lines of 300 for 3,000,000, or 100,000 lines of 300 for 30,000,000, or 1,000,000 lines of 300 for 300,000,000, or 10,000,000 lines of 300 for 3,000,000,000 (3 billion), or 30,000,000,000 lines of 300 for 3,000,000,000,000 (3 trillion), or ... So thank You God for: You cows Jesus horses the Holy Spirit ponies Your Word riding Your Word in so many translations running Terell crosscountry Jonathan track Kathie basketball Co

Happy Birthday Jonathan! God gave us Jonathan Terell, our first child, on a Friday evening/Saturday morning early in our marriage. Terell was finishing his bachelor degree at Southern Oregon University majoring in Biology and minoring in Outdoor Education. His dream was to teach at New Hope Christian School. He applied to New Hope and was accepted to teach, not Biology since they had a science teacher, but Math. Robert Giddings, Principal of New Hope, hired him. One of my dreams was to have a big family. Another dream was to have our children born at home. God said yes to the first dream and no to the second one. As I labored to have Jonathan, the bearing down part which can take a few minutes turned into over two hours and thankfully he was born safely by Caesarean. The Lord is good! And he was beautiful! We were so thrilled and enjoyed every minute of our firstborn! No one believes us when we tell them about him saying "hi" to us when he was 6 weeks old! We sa

And today is David Martin Bowdoin's birthday! Brother for Jonathan Terell, 3 years old on November 22, who was so happy and thought they should start playing right away! A delightful baby who initially looked so red that people looking through the window into the nursery thought he was a little international baby - possibly French! And indeed our name, Bowdoin, is from France. So they were somewhat correct. Howard Main's wife Mandy was born on the same day so we could say they go way back! David almost immediately began taking things apart - evidence of his gifting in how things work - and then as he grew bigger he started putting them back together! He figured out that the little people in the cute little cars and buses also fit well on the ends of his fingers. So much fun!

And my Dad worked a number of years with dairy cows, Holsteins. He was 5 lbs. underweight for the war - something like 145 and 6' 2". Plus he and his brothers were selling milk to White City to the CCC and they called each day for the order - like 800 quarts a day. So he was needed here. The dairy was on D Street from present day Penneys to Beacon Drive. And while I was really little we moved to Los Angeles so he could attend the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, present day Biola University. Then we had a Bible Bookstore here in Grants Pass in the front of our house. He preached at Merlin Baptist Church and Jerome Prairie Bible Church. He worked with his brothers on a big farm in Cave Junction where I enjoyed a lot of cousin times and helped herd the cows in each evening. And later he became a real estate realtor and greatly enjoyed getting listings and selling houses. And all along he was a carpenter, learned as a boy, and enjoyed many building projects, 6 houses, re

Happy Birthday to my Dad, Harold Francis Martin!!! He is 89 years old today. He was born on November 17, 1920, in Rogue River, Oregon. His Dad, George Paulin Martin, was born in Jamaica in 1886 of missionary parents who came to Jamaica from Scotland. The Martin home where my Dad was born is about a half mile from the bridge on Rogue River Highway, Highway 99. It is on the right. They had a barn on the river side until a flood took it down the river. My Dad is the fourth boy of five boys, James, Robert, George, Harold, Edward. I think Daddy was the tallest, or second tallest. Uncle Bob was really tall also. Grandma Frances Martin was a teacher/Principal at Rogue River Elementary before staying home with the big family of boys! And today we cousins keep in touch via Facebook! Cousins from each of the boys are on Facebook except for Uncle Bob's branch (as far as I know) so we are hoping for them soon. And I learned from Terell's Dad that we only call God our Fat

My friend Sue Bradshaw says her year ends in October. I see that is really how it is since it takes time to do the many year-end things. Plus Thanksgiving time is always so special and Christmas time for sure! So God bless us as we reflect on His many blessings - He blesses us and hopefully we bless Him and everyone. Our tithe is one basic thank you to Him and others. And our offerings also.

Families are so much fun! We got to spend these four days with our kids. Here are some high points: 1. Visiting with Priscilla. David & Priscilla's plants LOVE them. If a plant enters their house, it immediately grows about an inch a day. The Christmas cactus is usually covered with flowers. The African violets have so many blossoms it is incredible. I saw two little fir trees on the kitchen sink awaiting their turn. Wow. So what is the matter with my plants? 2. Visiting with Benjy. Third floor of Sigma Epsilon. Online test in Organic Chemistry. Fun at Priscilla's for us playing Scattergories. Taking pictures. Getting lectures not to take pictures. :) 3. Fun at Daniel & Christen's. Everyone on laptops. Hahahahaha! My laptop won't receive the signal, I keep trying. Benjy puts comedian Brian Something on his and we laugh and laugh! 4. Watching Jacob run CrossCountry in Springfield. The top ten for his

My Bible study book topic is on generosity. And who is the most generous of all? God. So how nice to have such a good and nice Heavenly Father. And how nice for Him when we are like Him. Let's grow more like Him today!

Divine appointments. The Holy Coordinator/Holy Spirit/Santo Espiritu. Thank You God for all You do for us / and all the time. And please bless Israel and Jerusalem with peace.

Sylvester, Sylly for short, is such a cute kitten. Purring away right now. Half tame. From Mittens litter of 5 sweet kittens, 4 have already found homes. I would love keeping Sylvester but have several cats. If anyone wants this little sweetie, let me know. :)

Our dove, James Robert George Harold Edward, is nice to have. He is named after my Dad and his four brothers. Kind of a distinguished name. Maybe someday we will have nephews and grandsons bearing our fathers Scottish and English names.