Our start to the New Year has been great and wanted to send you a little update of all that we have been doing.
Blessings for 2011 – praying God has wonderful memories to be made and super times to grow for each of you.
WEDDING TIME
Happy Marriage to Trent and Amber Eayrs – we are so excited that our family is growing and just loving the fact that we now have a sister and aunty!!! Love you Aunty Ambs!!!
They had a super day and all Glory to God what a blessing it was with a wonderful service. The little boyz got to be "flower boyz" and throw rose petals down the aisle then T played the trumpet for Ambs to come in. Mark had the privileged of marring them as the best man and he added his own character to the whole event. Dad shared from the word and what a special message for the loving couple. Then T led worship with is guitar and Ambs played violin it was a beautiful time of worship. In all the reception with yummy cake and finger summer lunch out at the farm was all beautiful and made for special memories of the Love filled day – Praying for God’s special blessing on them all
HOLIDAYTIME
We always start our year with a good long break at the beach. We went down to Kei Mouth and spend 3 weeks out enjoying all the lovely sunshine, beach, water and waves.
Boat rides and fishing with many a walk along the beach carrying the boyz .....
and even some kite flying ....
Amber’s family joined with us to relax and enjoy the coastal holiday! The newley weds even came along to enjoy a week with us too! It was great to have the whole family together!HAPPY BIRTHDAY TROYDIE
Wow and YEY all together Troydie turned 4!! And we had a celebration MONTH as we were away on his birthday we got to have Chocolate Brownies at the Tree house – YUM
When we got ho
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holiday we were able to celebrate with all his friends and Lightning McQueen. We had “Ramones House of Body Paint” where the kiddies could paint a stone red and put some goodly eyes on to make him McQueen. “Piston Cup Race Championships” with pull back small racing cars this was so fun to cheer everyone along! “Luigi’s Tire Bean Bag Toss” where the kiddies had to toss the bean bag into a tire. We also played pass the parcel and the kiddies won little cars. Each kiddy got a party car box filled with yummy little treats. We had a great morning of playing together making it a birthday Troydie will always remember!
As Lightning McQueen says “CA-CHAW!!”SCHOOL
This is going to be a big year for Troydie we start with grade 00. His teacher Mrs. de Freitas is lovely and he is so excited for this adventure. We had a hard start to the year as he didn’t want to say good-bye. And Daddy did the drop off as long as Mommy did the pickup. All has gone smoothly and he is thoroughly enjoying all that he is learning and doing. They have a lovely big sand pit with a jungle gym in it. And many other climbing jungle gyms with slides, swings, see-saw, balancing beams, helicopter jungle gym all set out in the play ground area. Then under cover they have sand and water troughs. Each of the class rooms are geared a certain way. One is for ART, one is the IMAGINATION PLAY ROOM with all the dress up gear you can thank of and one is the CONSTRUCTION room with blocks, puzzles, books etc. As you can see they go dressed in school uniform and this is great on saving his clothes. Thought he looked quite smart on his first day at school. Still can’t believe that our baby is now 4 and going to school! Time sure does fly by.
One of his first activities at school was his BIRTHDAY RING where he gets to sit on a chair next to the teacher, and the choose 3 songs to sing and then wearing a crown he blows out his candles and offers cupcakes (that mom made) to all his friends. Mom got the opportunity to be there with them and share in this special Birthday wish.
Troydie had a first school outing too to the FLAG FARM where they can pet and feed all the farm animals. We were able to take Treyson and Tryston too. They all got to ride on the pony and had great fun feeding all the animals.
Nearer the end of the term he had his FRIST SWIMMING GALA. He was quite nervous but really did well on his kicker board across the pool. The swimming is coming along nicely and will say that his hour with “coach” every week is his most favorite time of the week. In his words he will say “Mom, Coach is MY friend!”
FAMILY
Tan’s birthday – yes they do come 
around yet again we celebrated 
God’s goodness in my life and I praise the Lord for all the blessings that he has given me in this year of my life. I turned 32!! we celebrated in the midlands at a place called Lavendar Trout where we so enjoyed God's beautiful creation. The boyz had fun climbing on the jungle gym and petting the farm animals.
Yey we had a great time together and had a good giggle as we celebrated with the mom’s bible study group a few days later and they carried the cake in with the number 3 and 2 and one of the moms said “YEY you 23 today!”I thank the Lord for health and strength and the opportunity to minster for him and teach and train my children to follow after him too.
Errol & Tracy (Mark’s sister and brother-in-law) accepted a call to Empangeni Baptist Church and we were able to visit with them to encourage them as they start their full time ministry at this church. Praying that the Lord blesses their ministry and grows them to be what He wants them to be as they faithfully serve Him.
MINISTRY
Young Family Ministry
All is going well we are maxing out about 9 moms to our study every Tuesday arvie and we have a great time studying together. For the first half of the year we will be studying through the book of Esther – Great challenges ahead for all of us. This semester we have had some great outings on every alternate Tuesday- just to mention some. We celebrated Valentine’s Day together, we had an older more mature lady come and share some encouragement with us, and we had a picnic in the park and got to make some Ester crafts together with our kiddies.
The Dads have enjoyed the evening study too where the whole family can come along to study together. Mark is leading this study time and we are hosted in different homes every time we meet. The hosting mom gets to prepare and serve the meal and we have had great time of fellowship together. Following from this the Dad’s enjoy a social game of Tennis on a Saturday morning and the moms come along for a chat and a cup of coffee together.
Our group also welcomed into the world another 2 babies – praise the Lord for new life and for the opportunities we have has Christian dads and moms to raise them in the knowledge of Christ!
Sunday School
Tan is still leading the kingdom kids class and each mommy has a turn to teach 2 Sunday mornings in the semester. Our class has about 5 kiddies - they have a story time and craft time and then play time out on the Jungle gyms. It has been great to start this ministry so that moms and dads with littlies can enjoy the sermon time in church while thier kiddies are cared for.
Troyden has graduated into the “big” Sunday school this year and has taken a little getting used to with all the “big girls and boys”. Also he has to learn a memory verse a week so we have had to jack up our bible memory learning at home and this has been wonderful to be a part of so far. He so looks forward to learning each week – Tan has made him a book where we learn the memory verses by pictures and she has had to be quite creative for him to be able to “read”, look and learn.
Mark’s Ministry
He has had great opportunities to work alongside Pastor Stuart in leadership at DNBC this semester with lots of preaching and teaching. He is overseeing the Young adults group now that has split into two groups - married couples and singles. God has provided to wonderful young men to lead these two groups - praise the Lord. Mark has also had many opportunities to help with counseling and even did another wedding this semester.
We have a very full and busy program week to week and Mark is out the home quite a bit with things going on at the church. Pray for us as we train our children in righteousness in this type of FULL TIME MINISTRY. What a privilege, challenge and responsibility to be wise in our investments in their lives.
That’s all our news from the first quarter of the 2011 year – God Bless - In His hands
Mark, Tanya, Troyden, Treyson & Tryston
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