UPDATE -UPDATE YA'LL NEED AN UPDATE!!!

Hello Everyone,

That is right it is update time. It has been almost a month since writing. Many things have been going on during this month of September. We had Jim and Kristin come up for a week to see us. They were gracious and stayed in a hotel. Joel and I look forward to the day God will give us our own place and people do NOT have to stay in a hotel to see us. WE had a blast with them and they even approached a few grocery stores for us.

During their stay we found out that one of our dear dear dear friends that the four of us knew took his life. It was heart breaking and hard to come to terms with. We all decided we would go to the funeral in LA. So Joel and I followed Jim and Kristin two days later down to LA and met them at the Funeral. Joel and I stayed in LA for 5 days seeing old friends that we knew through Friend SHIps. We stayed with our dear friends Curt and Theresa.

During our stay it happened to be my birthday. Theresa was so kind. She got me a funnel cake, a churro and a birthday cake on my birthday. I was so full by the end of the day.

We went to Matthew Barnett's Church Angelus Temple which Matthew is over the Dream center as well. When Pastor Matthew got up to preach he said "I am not going to give a message today so you don't need your bible" JOel and I looked at each other disappointedly. (Is that a word? disappointedly) Then Pastor Matthew went on to say "It is my 15 year anniversary for being a pastor and I am going to share 3 main things I have learned from my 15 years as a pastor." He went on to talk about how pursuing a calling from God you do NOT want instant success. GOd wants your foundation to be big and sturdy so that it can hold anything that God wants to put on your foundations.
He also talked about how Quiters never win. That if you decide never to give up you WILL have SUCCESS. And the third point was ALWAYS give God the glory. People always ask him what his formula is for his success as a pastor or what they can do to have success in their ministry. Pastor Matthew said that he is messes up, he has staff that are mess up that do things wrong, he has drug dealers and prostitutes who work for him but because of God they are a successful. So give GOD THE GLORY.

During his talk I was thinking does this really apply to any one else besides JOel or I. This message seems just for us. I was blown away.

So in the past month of September we have hit the total of 52 grocery stores just in the city of STOCKTON. And we recieved one yes and they have not given us any food yet. We have approached every grocery store on the map and on Monday I was praying asking God "Okay so what do you want us to do now, we are at a dead end." It was then put on my heart with much much much excitement to go for Warehouse space. The next day we got an email from a dear friend saying He had a Refrigeration truck for Joel and I if we needed it. OH MY GOODNESS WE NEED IT!!! He is concerned it wouldn't make it to Stockton but is having his maintance guys check it out. SO either we will fly and pick it up or we will find a way to get it here. To God be the GLORY.
SO while Joel and I were going from grocery store to grocery store JOel and I thought well maybe we should approach wholesale (info: grocery is retail) I went and asked the Lord about it and he said "If I wanted you to approach wholesale at this time I would have given you a Box truck and a warehouse." Looking back I am like hm well here comes our box truck, Lord may there be a warehouse to follow. THen we can start appraoching wholesalers.

SO that is where we are at now, sending letters and faxes and calls to companies who own warehouses to see if they would donate temperary warehouse space. God did promise we would have a huge ministry to help provide for the church everything they need to outreach in thier local community as well as the homeless, mentally disable, poor, etc. So JOel and I are standing on His promise and knowing He will do what HE said he would do.

We have found in STockton ALONE dozens and dozens of brand new warehouses never moved into and no one is really looking at this time because of the economy. I have found I prefere the warehouses that are used because they have office space in them and are a bit more developed. (And there are a few used warehouses that are vacant, okay a good handful of them) The brand new warehouses have that never been used do not have offices and they are one big room with truck loading docks. Either way they would work but I am asking Heavenly Daddy for a used one.

That is it from us. WE love and miss all ya'll. Keep us in your prayers when you talk to Father God.

Love love love,
The Butlers

I am dreaming of Fall and Winter (Can't wait until it is here)
(Pic at my Parents Cabin, IDAHO)

In Noxon, Montana