Africa Update!

Africa is less than three months away. Please continue to pray for me as I prepare to go on trip.

I was reading Psalm 43 today and wanted to share this . . .

Psalm 43:3

O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your dwelling places.

Continuing to pray that the Lord will send out his light and his truth and prepare the way to Ethiopia as our teams prepare to head over there.

Please pray that I can continue to allow the Lord and his truths to lead this time and I won't try and do things on my own effort . . .which is fruitless.

Please also continue to pray for my financial support for the trip. Through many friends and family . . . . the Lord has provided about half of what I need. I am so grateful for that support. It means so much to have people behind me and supporting me on this mission. Please pray for the rest of the support and that I can be creative in how to continue to reach my goal for the trip.

As many know, I am getting married just about a month before going on this trip. I am so excited and cannot wait for that day. Please pray that I can continue to pray for the trip and the Ethiopians during these next few months and I don't only focus on wedding stuff and preparation for that trip.

Thank you so much for your prayers!

March Scripture Memory

I know I know,l it's mid march and I haven't posted my March scripture memory! I have been working on it, but haven't placed it here!

Here it is: Galatian 2:20
"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing."

Mission Trip to Africa!

I am going to Ethiopia this summer! July 24th- August 3rd on a Mission trip!

I am going to beging posting regular prayer request on my blog for this trip and pictures when I regurn! Here are my first three prayer request!

1. For me: Pray that I will be bold and not fearful on the trip. Deuteronomy 31:5 ?Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."

2. For the Ethiopians: Pray for opportunities to share Christ with the Ethiopians. Psalm 33:8 ?Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him.?

3. For the team/leaders: Pray that we will build unity. Ephesians 4:2-4 ?Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit . . .?

Thank you so much for your support in prayer!

February Scripture Memory

Hey gang I'm memorizing a new scripture every month. I know that seems minimal- but I am really committed to this and this is a good place for me to start! I am goign to eventually memorize all the navigator verses!

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, the New Creation Has Come: The old has gone, The new is here!

2 Corinthians 5:17

Oscar Henry Harms!!

Oscar Henry Harms, my new adorable nephew (he is the handsome little man above) was born on Thursday, January 22nd at approx. 4:15 pm!


We found out two day's before that Becky was going to be induced, so I was able to ask off work and plan on being at the hospital all day for the birth!


On my way to the hospital my eye started hurting and kinda watering just a bit! (The hospital is in Mansfield). I just kept driving hoping that it would get better. Well, it did not get better, IN FACT it got worse! I pulled over at one point to put drops in it, but that just made my mascara run all over my face and didn't seemingly help my eye one bit!



As I got closer to the hospital (well I think I am . . . b/c I've never been there before!) I stop at a Super Target (I was so excited to see this shopping Mecca in the middle of no where) I pull over and run to the contact aisle. I bought a bottle solution and a contact lens case . . . the case was actually really cute too. Anyways I ran in the bathroom and took out my contact. No relief. My eye still hurt and was watering like Niagara.


Next, I attempted to drive to the hospital minus one contact and hope that my google directions were spot on. Thankfully they were!


As I got up to the room to see Josh, Mom, Becky and Becky's mom in the delivery room . . . pre-delivery . . . it was worth it all! So glad to get to spend the day there!


Just a bit later, Mom, Don and I went to grab some lunch and Devon came along for the fun of it. We went to the hospital cafeteria which was surprisingly-good! mmm sweet potato fries. We also had fun conversations with Devon about what mom and Josh should name the baby!


After lunch it became apparent that my eye was getting worse and not better . . . so after my being reluctant for quite some time, I decided to head down to the ER and get it looked at! I've never been to ER in my life (okay once when I put a bead up my nose when I was a kid), but not since then!!


Mom came with me and we waited and waited and waited. After awhile she went back up and the doctor eventually let me know I had a scratch on my cornea! wahoo! I was thankful though b/c I was able to get med and get on the road to recovery.

Then right when I went upstairs from the ER to Labor and Delivery everyone was all excited and announced that the time was close for the baby to come! So thankful that I made it up before the baby came. After a little bit of excited chit chat Becky's mom came to announce that the baby was born!! yeah!! She already had pics on her camera too so we go to "see" him right away. Love the digital age! Then just a bit later we all got to go back.

Yeah! I got to hold that precious little baby boy! Lord thank you for bringing him safely into this world! Josh and Becky deliberated on names for a few days so we didn't quite have the name until a Saturday (he was born on Thursday!!) but regardless it it great to be able to call him by name!

That's the story of the day of sweet Oscar's Birth!

Looking forward to seeing him again soon!!

Mosiac!

Hi, I wanted to post a picture of the Mosiac I created this christmas! If I get a better picture, than I will go ahead and post that! Below is an e-mail that I sent to the THE VIEW! I entered a contest for the ways that we are saving money this Christmas! The e-mail will give you more detail about the mosiac!

Hi View!

My name is Kim Harms and I live in Dallas, TX. I am 28 years old and love Christmas!I wanted to find a way to not only save money this Christmas, but also give a meaningful gift to my mom and step-dad. I love them both very much and they have done so much for me over the years. I love crafting things and making old things into new! Over the years my family has recieved many greeting cards from me called "Kim Kards", but I wanted to do something even more meaningful this year.

My mom and my step dad received some dishes from my step-dad's side of the family several years ago. We use them at special occasions and they love them very much. They are beautiful gold and white china. They also have some accent pices with rose color. Unfortunatley, some of the dishes got broken a couple of years ago. My mom held on to them for a little while with hopes of them being repaired, but she never got them fixed.

She decided to give the broken dishes to me because I am always crafting something. This year as I was thinking of how I could bless them, I decied to take broken dishes and make them into a keepsake mosiac. I stained a wooden serving tray and added the china pieces on the surface of the tray. Finally I grouted it and it is ready to give!

I can't wait to give it to them and hope that it is a meaningful gift for them to unwrap!! I have attached a photos. (sorry my camera isn't so great!!) I hope others can take advantage of this idea too!

Merry Christmas!!

Kim

What is all that?

Okay so you will notice that there is a bunch of stuff posted from Today!! This is all stuff from my old blog. I am deleting all of my old blogs. I have had trouble logging in and out of them, but didn't to lose what I wrote.

Happy Reading!