The March Gang

Can you believe another year has come and gone?  2008 was probably the biggest year of change the March Gang has seen ever.  I am sure I can go back and find a few other moments that stand out as well, but as a whole ’08 was a big one.  We decided to follow God’s call and leave all the things that were comfortable and dear to us and embark on a adventure of a life time.  There have been days that I think I kind of know what Abraham must have felt like when he began his journey to the promise land. We are not sure where we are going to end up, but are excited to be on the journey.  We miss home and miss it a lot, but what we are doing right now has been worth it.   I want to thank all of you who are supporting us with your prayers and finances.  Both are invaluable to us and seriously we couldn’t be doing what we are doing without either of them.  Thank you!

We had two awesome services this past week.  It started off at our home base in Gilford and ended in Dublin.  Bro. Mac preached a wonderful and provoking message in both services. Bro. Mac preached on “Continuing Steadfastly”.  Took his text from the book of Acts on what the Apostles did after they received the Holy Ghost.  During his message he made the statement that “It is time to draw the line…in ’09″.  We are serving the enemy notice that we are on the move and nothing he can do will stop us.  We are tired of his tricks and tired of all the things he uses to bring us down.  We are drawing the line and saying “NO MORE”.  God is about to do some amazing things in this country.  We started this week off with two weeks of focused prayer and collective fasting.  We know good things are going to come of this.  They always do.

During our service in Dublin we had two men come down the stairs and sit in front of the front doors to take a smoke break.  However they were smoking a little more than just a Marlboro.  Peyton told Tara that those guys cigarettes smelled really funny.  The enemy was trying to distract us on the outside, but God moved on the inside.  Like I said we had a wonderful move of God in each of our services. Please keep both of our churches in your prayers. (Greater Life in Gilford and New Life in Dublin)

Simeon got a really bad “boo boo” the other night.  He was trying to get into Peyton’s room while she was getting ready for bed and ended up getting one of his fingers smashed in the door.  I truly believe that if it had been his “pinky” finger it would have cut it off.  It was his third finger and by the next morning was completly purple and twice its size. (we will spare you the photographs)  The poor guy was crying and the whole time he was just laying in our bed saying “Jesus, Jesus, I need you”.  I am going to be honest here it just about made me cry.  I hated to see him hurting.  We went ahead and took him to the doctor the next morning and they found no broken bones and said it was just bruised really bad.  By the end of the day he barely even acted like it was hurt.  He has healed up very quickly and for that we are very thankful.

We hope all of you had a fantastic Christmas and a Happy New Year.   We pray that God blesses you all.

Here are a few pictures of the services in Dublin: