Boy it has been a LONG time!

It's been almost 3 years since I have posted on my blog. I guess I need to change the picture even though I love the picture of my blessings. A lot has happened since 2009. I have become a grandmother of twin boys and oh so much more. I will try to come back from time to time to update.

Pray for Matt and Alexia

A few days ago Matt totaled he and Alexia's car.  Praise the Lord he is ok but the car isn't.  Please pray that the Lord provides them with another vehicle because their other vehicle which is an old van goes about 2 miles and then overheats.

Thanks in advance for your prayers!

A New Season In Life

Family Update

Taylor

Jordan

Landon

Our wonderful new son in law Matt and Alexia

Me and my honey

The girls . . .Alexia, Sierra and me :-)

My poor blog has been has not been updated for awhile as many of you know.  I have been trying to get back here but my life is a whirlwind right now and it's hard to find time to get back here.

What's new in our home?  Well, we are in a new season of life.  We currently have 4 of our 5 blessings in Kansas City at the International House of Prayer.  www.ihop.org.    Jordan will be starting his third year at their Forerunner School of Ministry and he continues to play keys in their 24/7 Global 24/7 Prayer Room on our son in laws worship team.   He has at least two more years in KC and then we pray he comes back to home and back to Orlando House of Prayer where we are contending for 24/7 prayer and worship. 

Alexia as you know got married to Matt on May 16th.  They had a wonderful honeymoon and they are now back in Kansas City where Matt is on staff at IHOP and is one of the worship leaders there.  Alexia will be taking audit classes at IHOP this coming year.  She needs to keep her time available so she can travel with Matt on ministry trips.  They also just got a new puppy named Jerry :-)

Taylor and Landon has been in Kansas City since June.  Landon has been doing their ATC  (Awaken Teen Camp) and also did their leadership track.   He will be home some time this month.  Taylor decided to spend the summer there and is also applying to do one of their internships.  We will know what happens with his future in a week or so.

Sierra actually was in Kansas City too this summer.  She went for a few weeks with Carlos and then decided to stay another 10 days with the kids.  So, at one time we had all five kids in KC and Carlos and I back here in Orlando. . . . boy that felt weird :-)

As many of you know Carlos and I are the Executive Director's of IHOP Orlando - the Orlando House of Prayer - OHOP.   We are a missions base that is contending for 24/7 prayer and worship.  The heart of OHOP is our prayer room where we are 70 hours away from being 24/7.

We have about 19 full and part time intercessory missionaries at OHOP.   They spend about 20 hours in the prayer room a week and the other 20 hours doing service and admin. hours on the missions base or in one of our arteries such as the Compassion Center.

I also volunteer about 20 hours at   the Compassion Center.    www.cflcompassioncenter.com   We feed and clothe about 300 homeless and low income families and individuals a week.  I am in the process of organizing the clothing and also reach out to the community to bring in food drives.

For the first time in about 21 years Carlos and I have been working "together" in ministry.  I have always supported him but when the kids were small and I was homeschooling all five of them I could not be of much help so I supported him.  Now that the kids are older and some have left the nest it has allowed me to partner with him in ministry!  We are having a great time and we have an amazing team at OHOP.  

I am going to try to keep the blog updated with "life" details.  I probably will not be posting many pictures because it takes too long but if you have a FACEBOOK I post almost everything over there.  You can find me at Emily Katsanis Sarmiento.   I also added the Orlando House of Prayer page box to the right side of my blog.  If you have a FACEBOOK I invite you to become a fan and you can see all what we are doing down in Orlando.

I have received so many nice notes and comments from you all saying you have missed my posts.  I will try hard to pop in here and keep you all updated!  

 

Where have the posts gone?

Many of you have contacted me wondering why I am behind or lagging in blogging.  Well, my wonderful laptop crashed . . .I did get a new laptop but I refuse to upload pictures to it so I am saving for an external hard-drive.  

I did upload the pics to Alexia's wedding so I will be posting "some" of them in the next week.  If you all have a facebook or myspace I have already posted them.  I posted them on our OHOP Myspace  www.myspace.com/orlandohop   and on my FACEBOOK  www.facebook.com   do a search for Emily Katsanis Sarmiento    Check my photo's and I have about 4 albums there from the wedding!

(Uncle Andrew  - if you are reading this you need to make a FACEBOOK - it's easy.  All of us have FACEBOOKS even mom :-)   

Dinner out with the gang!

After one of the night services we headed out to grab something to eat!

Matt and Alexia's OHOP Wedding Shower Part 1

Alexia and Matt have had a total of 3 wedding showers. This night was our turn to bless them on their upcoming marriage.

The soon to be married Matt and Alexia

Sierra was the punch server

It's hard to believe my baby girl is getting married.

Halfway through the evening we played the "Newlywed" Game even though they weren't married yet it still was a lot of fun to see how much we knew about each other. Christina was the lucky one who asked us the questions.The guys had to leave the building while Christina asked Alexia and I questions.What. . ..you want me to answer that question??You have got to be kidding!

Oh yes . . .I know this one.

I know this one too!Oh my goodness . .I am soooooooooooo embarrassed

No WAY!

I just have no ideaThat is too funny!

"I can't believe she said that!"

Yes, I know this one too!

Let me tell you all about it!

Part 2 in next post!