The Bus from God!!!

A little less than a week Joel and I are flying to Pennsylvania and picking up a bus that was donated to our new organization, Supplying Needs. We are so excited and can not wait. Things are movin and a shakin. With the bus we will take out most of the seats and then pick up non-sellable food from grocery and retail stores. WE will be able to help churches and groups feed the homeless, the poor, and the hungry in their community.

We were able to get all of our paperwork into the IRS to get a tax exempt status. So since our paperwork is now pending we are able to start picking up donations. We are so excited and can't wait to see what God will do with us.

So here are some pics of our new (to us) bus:





Since we are going and getting the Bus we will be able to see lots of people that we haven't seen in a while. It will be like a mini vacation. We are so excited we can barely wait!!

We will be spending time with Josh and Rebekah Larson and meeting there new addtion to their family Anna as well as seeing Ruth and Shalom who I know have grown since we saw them about a year ago.

Dad and Mom Butler are driving down and spending a few days with us in Pennsylvania since they are only 6 hours away.

We will also be stopping in Virginia and seeing the VA clan. Kippin, Matt, Sara, Debi, Janna, Ty, Joi, Mary and Dan and maybe even Dynamite. Then we will head across and maybe see Jeff and His wife Anne who we have not met yet and then stop in and See Jason.

SO many people to see. We just can't wait. God is blessing us indeed with a bus for our ministry and then being able to see family and old Friend SHips crew.

Well that is it from us. We love ya'll very much.

Have a blessed day,
Dess

APPROVED!! PRAISE GOD!!!

That is right folks. We got our paperwork back Saturday approved. So excited!!! WE are officially SUPPLYING NEEDS!!! But with this comes responsibility, Which might I add only Joel really thinks about. Yeah I tend to forget that side of things like bills and insurance and being responsible for people and paperwork. So I had my weekend of soaking up the excitement with out responsibility but Monday came and we got a new bank account for the business and a cell phone. I was excited about the cell phone up until they gave us the "BILL" yuck. Who knew it would be so much AND on top of that since Joel and I don't own anything, we have never had a bill, we don't have a credit card and because of this we had to pay a huge down payment for the cell phone that we get back in a year. Yuck.

Any way SO I am still pumped and excited and Praise God. Our next step is to get our 501 (c) 3 paperwork pending, head to Pennsylvania to get the mini bus all while helping out around our Church and our friends here.

So yeah for the next steps!!! Thank you for all your prayers they were truly need and appreciated!!

The Lord gave me a celebration song two weeks before our paperwork, it's pretty simple but I love it and it is constantly in my head:
It's time to CEL-A-BRATE, it's time to celebrate.
It's time to CEL-A-BRATE, Jesus let's celebrate.

PRAISE BE TO GOD,
The Butlers