Giveaway….

I had thought I would do the drawing tonight.   But Big Dave is not doing well. Our hearts are weepy and heavy over here. We continue to contend because we serve a miracle-working God. Thank you so much for praying with us.  We will do the drawing in a few days.

Update on Big Dave….

I am so thankful for so many of you adding to the prayers of so many others for Big Dave. His wife, Nicolle, has set up a CaringBridge site for him,  where we can all find updates regularly.  Click on Dave’s name to enter his page on the CaringBridge site – Dave Bompart. If you…

In Florida Right Now…

Dave and Nicolle Bompart regularly serve in Haiti.  In fact Dave has been in Haiti working on an orphanage.  Thursday {in Haiti} Dave was leaving a bank where he had picked up cash to work on the orphanage and buy food for the orphans, when someone apparently saw him, riddled the car he was riding…

January 14th, 2012

For those new to our Place Called Simplicity,  it was three years ago today that the kids and  I fled for our very lives as our little log home was burning. The kids and I had been sleeping and  I was wakened by the smoke alarm going off. Dw was out of town at the…

The Surgeon’s Plan

Thank you all for praying.  It might sound perfunctory to say that, but really, we mean it from the bottom of our hearts.   I can’t imagine life without a  personal relationship with Christ and  an understanding of the power of prayer! Ruby had many tests since arriving at the ER yesterday.   This morning…

Concerns for Ruby

I keep starting, typing and retyping… all the medical stuff is just too hard to explain. Suffice it to say that there were complications in yesterday’s surgery. So when we got up to her room she was already there and she was surrounded by doctors, nurses, surgeons and an anesthesiologist.  They had far more equipment…