Serving in East Hartford Since 1983	December 2014
Lanyon Family Homeland Est 1988
Greetings from Connecticut Lanyons
A Nation Still Under God: America,2014

Deu 4:8 And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?

Dear Beloved Family,

...And friends, we greet you in the lovely name of Jesus as we celebrate Thankfulness and Jesus' Birth. There was a beautiful story on the radio relating to the first Thanksgiving celebrated in Massachusetts in 1623. In a dire prospect of certain starvation after welcoming 35 new pilgrim settlers to their already struggling settlement, rations were cut again in half to survive the winter. A day of fasting and humiliation before God was proclaimed because without His favor that year, starvation was certain. God answered this day, and because of the answer, they were compelled to celebrate His gracious provision. We need an American nation to realize the famine facing us of our starving faith from coast-to-coast in the same way! For this reason...

Based on the declines in America over the past 6 years, Pat has increased his nursing home
ministry. Both are now being done weekly. And Sundays at Riverside Health Care Center is teaching on American History. We began with material from David Barton in 2012,13. Then in April, 2014, he began a program of school-room like materials covering our U.S. Constitution and the founding of America. On the first Sunday each month he still preaches the Bible (for over 26 years now) but America is a real focus. The course is from the National Center for Constitution Studies. Some of our material is documented at www.aprayernotebook.net/pray/

America: Take the top link to the: [Pray4America Project(p4ap.htm)]

The material is exciting and is redefining the way we pray for America.

We minister also every Tuesday evening for his "Bible Study" at Westside Care Center since Feb, 2004 begun after the conversion of Bernie Meisler (1918-2008) in Manchester, October 19, 2003. We just finished Victory Over the Darkness – N. Anderson	book about spiritual Bible issues.

Our Middle Ages Medical

In January after numerous warnings to us over-60'ers Pat asked a Gastroenterologist client to perform two recommended procedures at one time. It was an educational experience, and though it cost us thousands of dollars, the information and experience has been mission critical to begin to help solve some of Pat's digestive problems now surfacing. It also made us more aware of how our health newsletter organization works. Since a self-arranged ENT Dr. Visit in April 2013 Pat believes he has Laryngopharyngeal or what's called 'Silent' Reflux, similar to Acid Reflux but less detectable until it has become severe. He believes it has been caused by eating just before bedtime nightly for over 30 years, because of his Hypoglycemia diet.

So we are learning to "Drop Acid" in our diet to heal his recent voice-
box/throat issues. An article revealed 80M of an estimated 100M Americans have this! We hope you don't! Take a quiz @RefluxCenter@ www.voiceinstituteofnewyork.com

People in Our Sphere

God promotes people to whom we minister (from and) to:

Joseph Picard Family – TBC member host's our family at his holiday events

Barbie Williams – Christine's Bahamas friend is Professor @ ECSU, and instructs faculty now

Walt Grisevich – TBC visitor we eat with weekly, and David sleeps there as live-in adult overnight caretaker presently

Jayne Cowl – TBC member now in Adult Rest Facility we encourage

Joseph Streltsov – Former Westside Resident and Elderly Orthodox Jewish Friend – we bought a laptop for him to study, his chief pastime

Sophia Grice & Joshua – Caicos Pastor's Daughter & son now in RI

Stacia Phillips – a woman with many health issues we helped move late in October

John Holmes – EH resident David befriended who lost health, and is now back in his house.

Prayer Keys: Jewish Spir/Health Need Salv

David

In May, David and his Dad went to New Jersey to have him compete in a national taekwondo competition. He was awarded a bronze medal for his Black-
belt routine FORM. We managed to get a video of his last practice run just before the testing and can be downloaded from his page in our family web. He will only have to attend one more tournament which will involve sparring against other Black-belt candidates to finally earn his actual "Black-Belt". Hopefully that can happen some time in 2015. You can watch his routine practice just before test at:

www.aprayernotebook.net/ ctlanyons/david/forms

In the meantime he CLEANS CARPETS and offices with us as our labor technician. When he is not doing taekwondo or cleaning you will find him doing his real vocational love: COMPUTER TECHNICAL SERVICE! He gives free or very lost cost help to anyone who calls or texts him. His phone is 860-913-8372 if you have a computer ? ;) www.glorycarpetcleaning.com/ david/computers.htm

We were able to restore a virus-
eaten 6-computer lab resource center at Riverside where Pat ministers. This has worked well to link ministry to vocation there as some disinterested in Bible are greatly interested in technlogy.

Joseph Enters Senior Year

Pensacola Christian College has been a great challenge for Joseph, and he is progressing through his Business Management major's highest level courses. He will most likely finish up school in January of 2015 and return for May Graduation Commencement.

But his breaks from college are thoroughly enjoyed and filled full with service to Church attenders and neighbors. Everyone is sorry to see him leave and grateful to have him return. He is always mowing yards, and especially fixing or selling used bikes to anyone who recognizes his gifted-ness in this vocation. He makes himself available to set up for Sunday classes, assist PH (Pastor Harper's affectionate name), and serve the teen & College /Career TBC ministries.

Business Ministry

The privilege to clean inside CT homes still thrills us. Though the economy in our state is still depressed, and the state debt is seriously high, people still arrange carpet cleaning. And we give our testimony to anyone willing to hear more. We do, however, observe when that message is not welcome, and work hard to please anyway. Few though reject our testimony, for which we praise God.

Christine

Chris loves to meet the needs of others. She can be seen before and after each service delivering birthday and anniversary cards, and bags of clothes and other goodies which have been given to her previously. She is found serving in the nursery monthly, in her primary Sunday school class weekly, and at banquets and fellowships.

She really enjoys the monthly ladies' Bible Study, and God is greatly using her humble servant spirit in church and the Sunday school class.

She is also busy each day: cleaning jobs we have on our accounts, bookkeeping for a cleaning business, washing clothes, shopping for food for her family, and yes trying her hand at a garden.

With all this activity, attends the pains of growing older and the deterioration of joints in the body. But all is gratifying when the results come in. She is an irreplaceable component to our family, and everyone knows it.

Love, Pat, Christine, David, Joseph Lanyon