We have been working hard to pack up the house....and along with that comes trying very hard to weed out things that we do not need. We have made one trip to the dump for larger things that we needed to dispose of and we have made a handful of trips to local thrift store to donate clothes that no longer fit and other household items we no longer need. We have also been able to donate clothes to other families in our church with children just a little younger than ours and pray that they are able to make use of the clothes our kids have grown out of.
Wow, moving is so much work!
As we prepare for Harvest Bible Fellowship Residency we are taking a nice vacation to Arizona to spend time with family. We plan to use this time to get some rest and relaxation. On the schedule is swimming and fellowship....looking forward to this much needed rest.
When we return we will complete the packing of our house. We are trying to be very organized in our packing with boxes that will stay in storage here in Iowa and then taking only the things we will need in Elgin, IL. Just got email today with our new address and apartment number. Praise the Lord we will have a 3 bedroom apartment to accommodate the entire family while we are there in Elgin.
We ask for you to continue to pray as God continues to guide and direct our family.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Here is what God is doing in the Tank family's lives
I know that it has been a long time since I have posted something on the blog.....sorry! I want to take this opportunity to share what is going on and what God is doing in our lives.
Earlier this year John completed an application with Harvest Bible Fellowship for church planting. We went through a two separate trips to Elgin, IL for interviews. Throughout this process John and my prayer was that if this was in the Lord's will this would be something that He works out. Just last week we reecieved our acceptance letter into the residency program which begins at the start of September. We will be in training in Elgin, IL from September through January. After that we will move back to Iowa, but we will not be returning to the Des Moines area...we will be in Northern Iowa.
With all that said we have a lot to do. We will be packing only things that we have to have for Elgin. Then we will pack the rest and leave in storage here in Iowa. We will be working hard to get our house on the market and pray that the Lord will provide a buyer quickly.
We have faith that everything will work out because the Lord has always provided for our family.
In preparation for the hard work in Elgin and the hard work that we will have ahead in building a core group and launch team for the church plant, we are planning a nice two week long vacation to Arizona. We are excited to send time with family, rest, swim, and also meet our newest niece for the first time. We are so excited!!!
We ask that you pray with us....that the Lord prepares the way. That the Lord provides a buyer for our home...that we raise all the support that we need...that we are open and learn a lot in Elgin...that we follow the Lord and He blesses as we work in building and planting a Harvest Bible Chapel in The northern Iowa area.
Well, in a nutshell this is what is going on with the Tank family.
Earlier this year John completed an application with Harvest Bible Fellowship for church planting. We went through a two separate trips to Elgin, IL for interviews. Throughout this process John and my prayer was that if this was in the Lord's will this would be something that He works out. Just last week we reecieved our acceptance letter into the residency program which begins at the start of September. We will be in training in Elgin, IL from September through January. After that we will move back to Iowa, but we will not be returning to the Des Moines area...we will be in Northern Iowa.
With all that said we have a lot to do. We will be packing only things that we have to have for Elgin. Then we will pack the rest and leave in storage here in Iowa. We will be working hard to get our house on the market and pray that the Lord will provide a buyer quickly.
We have faith that everything will work out because the Lord has always provided for our family.
In preparation for the hard work in Elgin and the hard work that we will have ahead in building a core group and launch team for the church plant, we are planning a nice two week long vacation to Arizona. We are excited to send time with family, rest, swim, and also meet our newest niece for the first time. We are so excited!!!
We ask that you pray with us....that the Lord prepares the way. That the Lord provides a buyer for our home...that we raise all the support that we need...that we are open and learn a lot in Elgin...that we follow the Lord and He blesses as we work in building and planting a Harvest Bible Chapel in The northern Iowa area.
Well, in a nutshell this is what is going on with the Tank family.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Wow....it has been so long!
Can not believe that March is half over!
Feburary was busy......and went by in a flash!
We have continued to work hard with school.....just loving all the history we are learning along with the old testament! We have all learned so much this year......looking forward to continuing through the year and also continuing this into next year!
Johnathan and I have been working really hard together as we will be helping to lead worship this weekend and next weekend! Johnathan has worked so hard and it shows. I unfortunately caught a cold on Tuesday and truly is only affecting my voice....praying I wake up with a miracle tomorrow morning.
Nattalie has been growing like a weed still! It is so neat to watch her with babies and children. She has such a love for them! I am so excited to watch her grow into a young lady. I can say that part of the growing up she doesn't like.....helping with dishes,laundry, and picking up the house. I am not sure that I even like that now ;)
Daniel is continuing with the picture taking. He and Bob meet weekly and Daniel is taking in all that he can. A few weeks ago we went to Bob's and watched as he printed so of Daniel's black and white photos in his dark room. That was a ton of fun......so educational. Now I want to get th equipment to do that ourselves.....oh yeah never mind that is a bit extreme.
I know that this post is pretty vague......I will try harder to poet more often and share what is going on as it happens.
Feburary was busy......and went by in a flash!
We have continued to work hard with school.....just loving all the history we are learning along with the old testament! We have all learned so much this year......looking forward to continuing through the year and also continuing this into next year!
Johnathan and I have been working really hard together as we will be helping to lead worship this weekend and next weekend! Johnathan has worked so hard and it shows. I unfortunately caught a cold on Tuesday and truly is only affecting my voice....praying I wake up with a miracle tomorrow morning.
Nattalie has been growing like a weed still! It is so neat to watch her with babies and children. She has such a love for them! I am so excited to watch her grow into a young lady. I can say that part of the growing up she doesn't like.....helping with dishes,laundry, and picking up the house. I am not sure that I even like that now ;)
Daniel is continuing with the picture taking. He and Bob meet weekly and Daniel is taking in all that he can. A few weeks ago we went to Bob's and watched as he printed so of Daniel's black and white photos in his dark room. That was a ton of fun......so educational. Now I want to get th equipment to do that ourselves.....oh yeah never mind that is a bit extreme.
I know that this post is pretty vague......I will try harder to poet more often and share what is going on as it happens.
Friday, February 18, 2011
A little catch up......
Last week ended with Daniel's 11th Birthday. He had a great time celebrating with his friend Dominic. We went last Friday afternoon sledding behind the Rhino with the Laxton's. Everyone had such a great time! There are time when we got the Rhino up to 20mph....the kids loved it.
This week has been awesome! The weather has warmed up and we have been able to enjoy some time outside. It is so nice....the ugly snow has all melted away! It is so refreshing to have this nice weather.....it looks like next week we are headed back to the cold weather....bummer!
I will post pictures for Daniel's birthday later!
Other things that we have been working on is worship practice. Johnathan and I will be leading worship together two weeks in the month of March. It has been great working with Johnathan on this. He's guitar playing is improving so much....and he is testing me because I will be playing the keyboard along with. Thanks Johnathan for the encouragement.....it has been great working with you. I truly enjoy the time!!!!
This week has been awesome! The weather has warmed up and we have been able to enjoy some time outside. It is so nice....the ugly snow has all melted away! It is so refreshing to have this nice weather.....it looks like next week we are headed back to the cold weather....bummer!
I will post pictures for Daniel's birthday later!
Other things that we have been working on is worship practice. Johnathan and I will be leading worship together two weeks in the month of March. It has been great working with Johnathan on this. He's guitar playing is improving so much....and he is testing me because I will be playing the keyboard along with. Thanks Johnathan for the encouragement.....it has been great working with you. I truly enjoy the time!!!!
Monday, February 7, 2011
Monday Madness .....
Productive day for all The Tanks. We got busy on school right away and got everything done....we studied hard! Also, we forgot to post last week that we are learning about cells and we did this really cool experiment with an egg.....www let it soak in vinegar for a day and it dissolved the shell off the egg. Then with the clear coating around the egg the learned all about what makes up a cell.
After school today the boys went outside to work on the driveway a little and put some ice melt down....they were not out there long. Wow, we are in for a cold couple of days!!!
Johnathan and John are going through the Bible in 90 days together.....this takes great discipline and it will be great to see them finish this!!
Also, Johnathan and I have been working hard on the worship services that we will be leading in March. God has truly put some great songs in place and we are excited to see how God uses the worship on those two Sundays.
Also, should mention that we had a great time last night at a Superbowl party at the Laxton's house. The only part of the game that I watched was the National Anthem...and I could not believe that she forgot a phrase.....crazy!!!! The ladies enjoyed some great fun playing cranium together....we laughed so hard....what a great time we had! Thanks Laxton's for opening your home!
After school today the boys went outside to work on the driveway a little and put some ice melt down....they were not out there long. Wow, we are in for a cold couple of days!!!
Johnathan and John are going through the Bible in 90 days together.....this takes great discipline and it will be great to see them finish this!!
Also, Johnathan and I have been working hard on the worship services that we will be leading in March. God has truly put some great songs in place and we are excited to see how God uses the worship on those two Sundays.
Also, should mention that we had a great time last night at a Superbowl party at the Laxton's house. The only part of the game that I watched was the National Anthem...and I could not believe that she forgot a phrase.....crazy!!!! The ladies enjoyed some great fun playing cranium together....we laughed so hard....what a great time we had! Thanks Laxton's for opening your home!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Rough start to our day.......
Got up to do the paper route this morning. Wow, there were some crazy drifts outside. We made it to the distribution center without much trouble. We put the papers together and headed out. We turned onto our first street and there was a car stuck.....John turned into the Walgreens parking lot......he got out to help him. The crazy guy was in a car and just try to plow through a snow drift above the height of his bumper. When looking at the rest of the street the boys and I decided to walk the block to th apartments. Glad we did because we ran into some pretty high drifts. John was ready for us once we got those delivered. At this point we decided to call the manager to ask if we could go back later in the day to deliver the papers and she said that there was not late call on them and that it was delivery as normal. Great! We couldn't get into the mal area to deliver the businesses that we have....that sow at all the entrances was over the bump of our truck. So, reluctantly we headed to our larger route. The street leading up to it had been plowed somewhat. Then John turned on our first street which was a down high street....well that wasn't our brightest move. After that we had a heck of a time getting out of there. John and Dan drove the best they could to complete a street and Johnathan and I walked a street....wow! After we final figured out how to get The truck back to the plowed street we left him there and the boys and I waed down the rest of the streets to deliver the rest of the papers. Whihle down one of the street a gentleman asked John if he needed any help and explained that he was waiting for us to get back up the street.....he does something with the paper because after John told him that we were delivering and he found out our manager said deliver as normal he went crazy.....we are sure he made some type of call. So after that neighborhood we had one more street to deliver and then we were done. We did save the businesses until later in the day. Got home and called our manager to let h know that we finished delivering and she says oh if the streets weren't plowed the you should have just waited to deliver until they had been plowed.....wow what a change from when I called her to ask if we could wait. She now knows that the Tank family will not deliver the paper unless the streets have been plowed....only safer for everyone.
Being out there walking was crazy.....the boys and I walked through snow that was waste deep for me.....so like chest deep for them. We were tired when we came home!
As normal we went back to bed....the boys went right to bed, but John and I drank some nice hot coffee before we went back to bed.
Then my dad came over because he wanted to plow our drive with his Rhino which he has graciously let us use for the winter months. The girl across the lives next door left her car on the street overnit and sine they had plowed our street she was stuck and unable to get out.....Johnathan went out and helped her shovel her way out. While he was doing that I had my dad run with me to deliver the business papers.....wow my dad is crazy driving in the snow because he has to drive over all the snow that he can just to play. So we finished delivering them and he was driving through the parking lot up the first street of our route that we had to walk where the car was stuck early in the morning. Wow, this street still hadn't been done, but a rough patch down the center. This made my dad excited.....he started driving through all the thick stuff. I said, "You are going to gt stuck!". He said, "No we won't.". Well, you guessed it we got stuck! He tried to move a little snow from the tires, but no luck. I was about to go to the Walgreens for a shovel and a gentleman came to asked if we needed help....he had a tow strap and was able to tow us out. Let's just say my dad was truly asking like a kid! Thank for the excitement today, dad!
We made it home and dad had a good time plowing out the driveway.....we had some serious drifts! Praise the Lord for the plow this year!
The rest of the day we just spent together......no school and kids loved that!
Johnathan and I worked on worship music for a while and had a great time. Now, we are snuggled under blankets trying to stay warm and watching a movie.
So we have had a crazy day and pray that tomorrow is a little less eventful!
Being out there walking was crazy.....the boys and I walked through snow that was waste deep for me.....so like chest deep for them. We were tired when we came home!
As normal we went back to bed....the boys went right to bed, but John and I drank some nice hot coffee before we went back to bed.
Then my dad came over because he wanted to plow our drive with his Rhino which he has graciously let us use for the winter months. The girl across the lives next door left her car on the street overnit and sine they had plowed our street she was stuck and unable to get out.....Johnathan went out and helped her shovel her way out. While he was doing that I had my dad run with me to deliver the business papers.....wow my dad is crazy driving in the snow because he has to drive over all the snow that he can just to play. So we finished delivering them and he was driving through the parking lot up the first street of our route that we had to walk where the car was stuck early in the morning. Wow, this street still hadn't been done, but a rough patch down the center. This made my dad excited.....he started driving through all the thick stuff. I said, "You are going to gt stuck!". He said, "No we won't.". Well, you guessed it we got stuck! He tried to move a little snow from the tires, but no luck. I was about to go to the Walgreens for a shovel and a gentleman came to asked if we needed help....he had a tow strap and was able to tow us out. Let's just say my dad was truly asking like a kid! Thank for the excitement today, dad!
We made it home and dad had a good time plowing out the driveway.....we had some serious drifts! Praise the Lord for the plow this year!
The rest of the day we just spent together......no school and kids loved that!
Johnathan and I worked on worship music for a while and had a great time. Now, we are snuggled under blankets trying to stay warm and watching a movie.
So we have had a crazy day and pray that tomorrow is a little less eventful!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Snowy day.....
Well we are supposed to be buried under a significant amount of snow by morning. This morning we had about 2 inches or so, but the roads we not clean at all so John went with us on the paper route.....thank you, honey!!!
The church decided to have the staff work at home today and tomorrow because of the storm. So today John was home with us. We did our school and he did his studying for his message this weekend.
Nattalie just made cookies for all of us to share...she did a great job. Only stuck her oven mit in two of them while she was taking them out of the oven ;)
The snow is still coming down and it is really windy out there. Not looking forward to how much snow we will have to wade through to delivery the papers tomorrow.....I am sure tomorrow I will have John join us again to help with the driving. What a great husband he is to me!!!!
Ok...now that the day is wrapping up we are going to snuggle under blankets and watch a movie or two. Praying that all our friends and family that are in areas of this crazy winter weather are warm and safe!
The church decided to have the staff work at home today and tomorrow because of the storm. So today John was home with us. We did our school and he did his studying for his message this weekend.
Nattalie just made cookies for all of us to share...she did a great job. Only stuck her oven mit in two of them while she was taking them out of the oven ;)
The snow is still coming down and it is really windy out there. Not looking forward to how much snow we will have to wade through to delivery the papers tomorrow.....I am sure tomorrow I will have John join us again to help with the driving. What a great husband he is to me!!!!
Ok...now that the day is wrapping up we are going to snuggle under blankets and watch a movie or two. Praying that all our friends and family that are in areas of this crazy winter weather are warm and safe!
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