Tuesday, April 13, 2010

This is one family that will never attend another Mariner's game

Last Friday a strip club was opened up only 400 feet from Safeco field. They have a giant electronic billboard that they claim will not show provocative pictures ONLY during kid friendly games. I thought baseball as a whole was supposed to be kid friendly. They also are allowed to hand out business card sized advertisements outside the stadium to anyone and everyone they want. So if I did choose to take my family to a game, my 14 year old son could easily be approached by a stripper with a business card, or how about my 3 year old. I know this happens on the streets of Vegas and that's why I have never gone and never will go to a place where God's enemies are lurking to lure our sons and men and even me into adultery and temptation. You can defend the Mariners all you want but they did not do enough to stop this business from opening up; actually they did nothing at all. The owners of Safeco Field are the ones who filed a lawsuit and then dropped it after coming to an "understanding" that they won't advertise on kid friendly days or hand out anything larger than a business card for advertising. So really the Mariners did nothing at all to protect the kids of the community that they are continually praised for helping in other areas. And what about all the Mariner fans?? I am not one, I am a Yankee fan. I haven't heard anything about them protesting or trying to stop this horrible act of lewdness from happening. Where is the church in all this. When will the church take a stand and shout out enough!!! Just because the Bible says the world will get worse doesn't mean you have to sit back and watch. We, as a Christians should stop allowing ourselves to be lazy and quiet. A Christian is a Christ follower. When you do nothing or say nothing then who are you following? Why are we so afraid to speak out. Doesn't Jesus promise us that He will be with us and that no one can harm us (spiritually). No one can come between Jesus and a true Christian. Didn't Jesus stand for the truth of the Gospel. Aren't we supposed to be like Him. I don't recall anywhere where He tolerated sin, if He did then prove it to me. Why are we tolerating it ourselves. Quotes like, "well, I'm strong enough that it doesn't bother me" or "I just don't walk on that side of the field" is tolerance.
What am I going to do? I'm going to write letters to the Mariners. I'm not going to take my family to anymore games. I'm going to inform others of what is going on with word of mouth as well as writing this blog. I can't afford to sue, but I do have a voice. And I do love the Lord with all my heart that I refuse to tolerate such filth. I won't tolerate these espresso stands in my city either and I have spoken up about it. What are you going to do?

Monday, April 5, 2010

Its been a while

I know I haven't posted in a while. I have been so sick, as usual. I was starting to get sleep at night and now I have a horrible cough that keeps me up all night and Lizzy has another double ear infection. We also have been so busy. We are packing like crazy. We've packed things that we still could have left out for use but we're learning to live without for now. We have 14 days until we sign the papers for our house and 19 days until we move in. I'm so excited beyond words. I pray that our loan goes through. There is one thing on my credit from over 7 years ago and its still looming out there like a bad toothache. But, God is in control and He knows how much we need to move. Also, we gave our 20 day notice here at the townhouse and they won't allow you to take it back. We don't want it back anyway. If you ever plan to rent don't rent from Kalles Properties. They have been the worst landlords. They have not once gone by the tenant/landlord laws and we have had to fight them for things many times in the last 4 years we have lived here. They are also extremely rude and use threats to try to scare us into not filing a complaint with the AG. But, it doesn't work I don't really like to be threatened.
But, for many reasons we are excited to have our own home.
We went to see Timothy's new marker on Easter. Its very beautiful. I wish he were with us. He was due to be born on April 20th so this is a hard month for me. He got to spend resurrection day with Jesus, there isn't anything better than that. I have a newsletter to write and CEF stuff to finish. I'll start working with King County as soon as I finish training the new bookkeeper for Pierce county. I won't have to do the books any more woo hoo. I still need $400 a month in support so I'm praying asking for 20 people to support me $20 a month. I know that God has these people in mind now I just need to find them. If your interested in supporting me as a missionary for CEF then please email me. I'll try to post again soon.