Broken-Finger Blessings ;)

So if you have been following the saga that is Caleb's finger, you know it has been a  long process and involved lots of stress and screws haha. Caleb had surgery two weeks ago on his ring finger, left hand thankfully! The surgeon put in two screws and helped rotate his finger back into a normal position. Caleb was awake the whole time and even got to take a look inside the finger! Last Friday he went back to the doctor and found out it is healing well and has about a month of physical therapy to help his finger bend again.

Needless to say, surgery costs alot of money. And sadly Caleb's insurance is not the best in the world, with a deductible of $3,000 and the surgery still $2,500 after insurance kicked in, not to mention all the x-rays and doctor visits. We got our first batch of bills on Wednesday for about $300, which sent me into a panic. I am a huge worry-wart about money, and struggle trusting that God will provide. We had to continually pray for trust and provision. We knew that God would provide for the medical bills, whether we had to pay all ourselves, if we could get the clinic to let us do payments, or if miraculously someone would help us pay. Well, God decided to be miraculous!!

We don't have to pay a dime of our medical bills!!! A very good friend of Caleb's called us and told us they were sending a $700 check to us to help out, my aunt sent some money in a get-well card, and the big kicker came when we went to Lifegroup on Thursday. Ironically, we were talking about tithing. After prayer request time, when we asked for prayer for financial provision, our leaders came up to us and told us that our bills were covered. That they all pitched in to help us get through this. That they were glad we were here and are thankful we are in their small group. HOW COOL IS GOD?!?!?!  And how cool is our Lifegroup!?!?! We are still blown away and not sure how to properly thank them for a gift of this magnitude. God is clearly showing us that He has us exactly where He wants us, broken finger and all. Thank you to all who were praying with and for us. We appreciate those prayers so much and love you all dearly. THANK YOU!!

It's Carnival Time!!

Here are some photos from our Halloween Carnival! We had several carnival games, including bobbing for apples, which was a HUGE hit! Over 100 people came from the community! Tons of kids and parents got to see what we are doing at Lifeline: loving on kids! By only God's provision, we didn't even run out of candy or food for dinner. Awesome :) Enjoy some of the cute kids we see all the time!

The cutest four-year-old bobbing for apples :)

Barbara and Sayra, two of our 6th graders

Our own personal Spiderman! Amarie is a 3rd grader who just started coming to club.

Neil in the orange sweatshirt, Joey in the blue, and Daivon showin' us what's up!

Us :) 

We love you guys!! Thank you for your constant support and prayers!