CT Lanyon Family Homeland
Hope For Our Tomorrow's	February, 2025 for 2024
New England Greetings to Family and Friends

Patrick, 860-655-9000; David, 860-913-8372; and Joseph, 860-922-6448; 47 Long Hill Street Zip 06108

As you can see I am greatly delayed from last year's Christmas mailing previous years. I apologize for not getting word out to the hundreds of you whom we wrote to as a family of 4. After the passing of Chris, we have made prudent changes in our home and business reflecting the new norms. We are better equipped now to take on new responsibilities for our home and business.

36 years of Glory Cleaning Service ended on 10/31/24 and the gift of our new partnership of Joseph and myself is now a reality for him as an LLC partnership entity. But it has been quite the mountain to climb with all the changes. Most everything is getting in place though finally and we thank you for remembering us in your prayers. There's a number of you I would love to reacquaint myself with as I really didn't know you as Christine did. She was so intelligent and sensitive to you all and when letters and cards came she would make all necessary notes and would respond to you. Please feel free to call or write, as I would love to pray for your needs and give you updates.

Our days are kept busy so much so that I have been unable to do much outside ministry just getting titles changed, new business entities begun, old ones properly closed, bookkeeping procedures understood, errors I constantly cause because of my life-long companion Dyslexia, not to mention our having our house duties established and cleaning responsibilities resumed.

It is truly a new cycle of life I have entered now for 16 months, and I have been reminded the few times I've had occasion to reenter nursing homes. It is a joy to visit there every time I go. Chris had such a busy life she thoroughly loved and I completely love reviewing it among hers and my notes over the past 35-40 years. I just realized God used the ministry of Dr. Ron Comfort to call us each separately to mission fields of service, she in 1971, and myself in 1977.

How We've Kept Christine Alive

Memories Recalled

Christine, as we've declared numerous times, became bigger than life 16 months ago when she, within a brief 5 day span showed signs of a cranial tumor that took her life 29 days later. It was October 9 she began doing weird things like saying "So, so, so" not realizing she was doing it, then came the falls around David at home and work jobs. Those on FaceBook can review those days by searching on my public posts at user @ctlanyons there, or you can also prospect my folders on www.aprayernotebook.net/queenchristine

How is she, "being dead, ... still speaking" to us? Well we share a)links to her life's memorial service b)cards she was famed to send to multitudes c)beautiful pictures of her in family scenes, missionary poses, and family celebrations d)family videos (like our marriage- streamed on Facebook for her 1st in heaven human birthday celebration 2 and a half months after she passed); a 1995 trip to PA-OH-MI from CT with my brother videotaping– on my website e)shared posts of a year ago detailing those 24 hospital days hoping and praying she would be healed, and f)mentionin
g her in church, family, and business settings that bring her strong-in-
spirit presence back to us, g)Creating a Memorial calendar with Digest descriptions of each picture (www.aprayernotebook.net/2025/Edition3/seeit.
htm) ! I am completing those descriptions through out the year and also supplementing her portion of my website with her autobiographical and my biographical additions.

Another amazing portion of life has been our ministry to Chris' only living sister, Mary Davis. We went all three of us to Ft. Meyers, FL, 6 days leading up to Christmas, 2024, and saw all her family that live there. It was a memorable yet brief time there and we thoroughly treasured that time. Mary had to leave earlier than planned after heart threatening happened to her in Haiti. But her work resumes without her with an evangelism crusade 2/9-21/2025 even. Needs are ongoing there for food and conviction for the sin that reigns seemingly everywhere. Mary plans, after some medical appointments and medicines to correct bodily issues, to return to Haiti in March or if delayed, April. Yu can also pray about the prison needs, and safety with a fledging government. Subscribe at her email, mary4haiti@gmail.com or see past updates at www.aprayernotebook.net/each1helps1/texts.ht
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David keeps himself well occupied with his chief joy: connecting people together through technology and life groups and church activities. When not doing those [and sometimes both at the same time ;-)], he is helping we 3, as a team, cleaning offices, or his brother, mainly assisting Joseph cleaning carpets on our brand new cargo van. We are blessed to have loyal clients appreciating two brothers who work together as a team providing carpet and upholstery cleaning.

Joseph has taken the heaping share of responsibility for our family in CT now doing all the carpet cleaning truck mount driving, scheduling, and billing for the business with myself assisting still a lot. His chief love is to encourage the young adults in our church going Sunday afternoons on various outings, some even impromptu. He loves to drive all over New England parks and recreational areas kayaking in the summer, hiking and doing photo excursions year round. He is always supporting the Teen leaders at church, loves to help out in the orchestra on the cajun, or assisting the song and worship teams up front. We maintain the church janitorial program and stocking the closets, wash the cleaning cloths and kitchen towels. Joseph also takes care of the home washing, yard work, and taking out to the street the trash and recycling.

In short, we are so thankful to have each other, and the support of Truth Baptist Church through all of this extended ordeal of a helpmeet/motherless home now. Like many other US churches, TBC has not had it easy securing a spirit-filled and sensitive Pastor/Shepherd to relieve Pastor Bim Rowley, but we know God is on the Throne, and He will be sovereign there just as He has been in the political turmoil and prayers answered restoration now taking place in our nation. We have an amazing inheritance as American citizens who will next year celebrate 250 years of Independence and "United" ness.

Deu 33:26-29 "There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides the heavens to help you, And in His excellency on the clouds. (27) The eternal God is your refuge, And underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, And will say, 'Destroy!' (28) Then Israel shall dwell in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; His heavens shall also drop dew. (29) Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, The shield of your help And the sword of your majesty! Your enemies shall submit to you, And you shall tread down their high places."

We Pray earnestly for the peace of Jerusalem, and the Greatness of America to truly bring opposition to global wars and use a strength of Nation to resist oppressions our adversary advances upon us.

Love and Gratitude to one and All,