March Forth! Marssige Edasi!

We woke up to our first snow of the season this morning! Just a light dusting, but enough to brighten up a dark (almost) winter day.

We have had some kids sleeping over this week because it is school vacation. Today they are going back home to Kavastu (except for Maret, we need her help!). But first they will help Chris shovel the sidewalk!

Tomorrow we will go to Tallinn for the big 10-year-anniversary celebration. Karl-Gustav has agreed to go, and we are so happy about that! He originally didn't want to because it is his mother's birthday on Sunday (she died in August).

My heart is aching that we still don't have the homeless day center up and running, and here it is the first snow! Another organization has started a "day center" of sorts, three mornings a week of classes, that will only run until the end of the year. So at least we know people do have some option of a place to go during the day. But it is not enough! So please pray that the contract comes back from the Army's lawyers soon, and that everything is approved for us to move forward.

Tim is lighting our morning fire. Those of you new to the blog might not realize that our main source of heat is a wood furnace. Elizabeth just came upstairs to get dressed and said, "It's so wonderful smelling the fire burning and seeing the snow outside!"

We have lots and lots to do today, and Thursday-Sunday will be super busy days for us. We would really appreciate it if you could rally the troops to especially be in prayer for us at this time!

Here are some snowy songs that we will be singing this weekend:

Such love, pure as the whitest snow;
Such love, weeps for the shame I know;
Such love, paying the debt I owe;
Oh Jesus, such love.

by Graham Kendrick
(This is "Su Arm" -- can mean "your grace" in Estonian, and is sort of our theme song for the homeless shelter. We sing it there often and they really enjoy it.)

Would you be whiter, yes, whiter than snow?
There's power in the blood, power in the blood!
Sin stains are lost in its life-giving flow;
There's wonderful power in the blood!

by Lewis Edgar Jones

Whiter than the snow! Whiter than the snow!
Wash me in the blood of the Lamb,
And I shall be whiter than snow.

by E.R. Latta

"Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow." (Psalm 51:7)

"Like the coolness of snow at harvest time is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the spirit of his masters." (Proverbs 25:13)

"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." (Isaiah 1:18)

Evelyn