{"id":4573,"date":"2021-10-05T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2021-10-11T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:03:24","slug":"a-bunch-of-october-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/a-bunch-of-october-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bunch of October Treats"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We have much to share this month from family stories to mission updates, and we hope you’ll enjoy catching up together!\u00a0<\/p>

As we do, we want to begin by taking a moment to thank everyone who is supporting us each month! Your continued monthly support is what allows all the good work taking place to happen, both now and in the future. Your investment in us, and in His Kingdom, is already bringing fruit, and we hope to share some of that with you today.\u00a0<\/p>

Through your support we have been able to meet and invest in five families in our apartment complex! Earlier this year, we sold 90% of our possessions and moved up the road to an apartment complex as we prepared for our transition overseas. It\u00a0 has given us the opportunity to build relationships and love on people around us. Your investment is allowing us to give our time and energy to show them who Jesus is through us, while we continue to raise our monthly support to get us on the field in Scotland. I shared in the last blog that we had met a fellow and his son who just moved to the area, and we were able to help them unload their moving truck. We have also baked and taken brownies to new families at our apartment complex this month. When we drop off the treats, we introduce ourselves, leave contact information, and let them know that we are here for them if they need anything. I make sure it is clear that I am serious, it isn’t just an offer, that we are really here if they need anything.\u00a0 During the summer, a family had a new baby and we were able to show up at their door with a gigantic lasagna and brownies.<\/p>

This month we have been able to work with several folks dealing with the hardships of life, from working out guilt and shame due to feelings of depression, to questions about scripture. Shannon helped deliver a baby this past month, filling in for a midwife whose mother passed away, and helped a few other folks get into labor or who needed to talk. The work of ministry takes many forms!\u00a0<\/p>

We hope this update helps to give you all the latest news and information about what’s happening with us!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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October Mission Updates!<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This month, we kicked of a new project to raise $6000 toward our November research trip, which I’ll share more about below. The project invites you and others to help us “fill the bucket”! You may give online, or grab a $1 pumpkin bucket from Walmart and help fill it up with change, cash and checks! Keep it on your counter and drop in change this month, or consider taking it door to door, invite your church family to donate, have a bake sale, etc.\u00a0 The options are limitless! We are ending the project on on November 1st! Reach out to us with questions! Give now!<\/a>\u00a0Below is the kick-off video for the project starring Gideon as, “Chuck Horseman”!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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At the beginning of October, Silas and I (Chris), had received permission to setup a table outside of Arlens grocery store in Waller. Our hope was to pass out a few information papers and share a little about “Clan Stellhorn”. \u00a0We setup our candy basket, our pumpkin bucket for donations, and also our shirts. We greeted everyone, and we invited folks to come get some candy and a Clan Stellhorn sticker. Most accepted graciously, some turned us down, and some were excited to hear.\u00a0<\/p>

Silas and I, while sitting out there, took turns serving people as well. We gathered the baskets from the parking lot and offered to help people load up large loads. It was halfway through the morning, and a fellow comes out of Arlens. We visited a few minutes and he left, but soon returned with a check for $753! Silas sat completely unable to process what was taking place, and I stumbled in my words a few seconds as I was trying to comprehend what God was doing. He pulled out this cashier check, and wrote it out to us on the spot. It was a gigantic encouragement for us, and will be set aside toward the October project. We also gave him a Clan Stellhorn shirt as a “thank you!”. We are at 13% now of our October Project goal!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Our November Planning & Preparation Trip<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The first week of November, we will board a plane to hop across the pond! The journey will begin at the end of October when we will drive to Missouri where we will drop off the kids (minus the baby) to stay with grandparents while Shannon, Cullen, and I drive north to Chicago and fly to London out of O’Hare. I had always wanted to visit Chicago, so the fact that it works best to fly out of there is a bonus for me.  I am looking forward to seeing, “Home Alone” filming locations and also the Chicago “Field Museum”. In the museum are a couple of lions on display. In the book, “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo<\/a>“, John Patterson a Lt. Col. in the British Army, is sent to go build a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in what is now Kenya. It is a true story and, in short, these two male lions terrorized the camp and would literally drag away workers from their tent in the middle of the night and eat them. It was unusual behavior for lions to be so brazen to want to eat men rather than their normal prey. To become man-eaters was unusual for a lion, because they would only eat men as a last resort due to starvation or possibly old age, but these lions continued the hunt for months!  It was almost ten months of terror for these workers as they watched around 135 of their colleagues dragged away, maimed, and eaten. They had tried just about everything to keep themselves safe and the lions away, but nothing worked. They tried to hunt the lions down, and although the task was very difficult, in the end they were able to put a stop to both lions. I encourage you to read the book, it is inexpensive (Kindle .99c<\/a>) and an easy read. They did create a movie based on it starring Val Kilmer years back, but it is very loosely based on the true story at best. (The Ghost and the Darkness)<\/p>\n

Back to the trip: In Chicago, we will board a plane for London, and arriving at Heathrow Airport, we will rent a car and hit the road northbound! This trip will have several stages to it. The first stage will be driving to Birmingham and meeting with, “The Fellowship of Churches of Christ of Great Britain and Ireland”<\/a> for a conference they are hosting. The FCC (www.the-fcc.org) are our Visa sponsoring organization. This conference is a chance for us to meet everyone involved, as well as many staff and leaders from churches across the UK!  We are excited for this opportunity.
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