When God calls, He provides

God blessed my family last year by sending myself and my youngest son Samuel to India on a mission trip. My sister Brenda and her husband Steve have been serving the wonderful people of India for over 7 years now and we were able to join them in their service. It was wonderful to see them in action as they loved on the children at Kids Home Orphanage, met physical needs of the poor, widows, lepers and lost as we gave out clothes and food, offered free medical treatment and shared the gospel. It gave me such joy to minister as I sang and spoke wherever we visited. This year our 17 year old son, Levi will be joining Samuel and I. We will be leaving around December 15th and plan on spending Christmas with them in India. This will also be our first Christmas with my mom in Heaven. My dad will be traveling to India with my niece Rachel and her sweetheart Michael to join us. We will be helping organize and participate in the Kids Home Christmas celebration before we begin other team ministry activities.

This is Levi

These are my wonderful parents. Miss my mom so much!

There will be 10 on this team this year, including Ruth Ann Rowen and Denise Mendenhall. We plan to teach Bible lessons to the children as well as crafts, games, and singing wherever we minister. Last year I was the guest speaker and singer for a Ladies Tea outreach and we are excited to participate in another of these. My sister said that there was a lot of positive response to this and she is looking forward to organizing another of these for the English speaking ladies in the area. We will also be able to help the local pastors as we support them in their ministries as we come along side them. We will be helping a village pastor with a church building project both financially and physically. Poverty is so prevalent in India and there are so many still who have not given their hearts to Jesus. It is wonderful to have this opportunity to put Matthew 25: 34-40 into action as we minister to those our Heavenly Father holds so dear. We will be having a fund-raising event at First Church of God on Saturday, October 24th at 6 pm. If you would like to join with us in our effort to reach the lost and minister in India, please join us. We will be having a dinner and pie auction. Our goal is to raise $5,000 for the projects the team will be doing, besides travel expenses (approximately $4,000) The Townley family will be sharing both about the ministry as well as sharing their music. Please reserve your seat as a guest for a delicious Indian dinner by calling Lisa at 736-8774. If you would like to donate a pie for the auction please let me know. We already have people volunteering to buy and cook all the food for this event. God is GOOD!! Thank you! Blessings in Christ, Lisa Townley

Fusion Youth Gathering

One of the things I love about how God has led our family to be involved in music & leading worship is to see our boys (who are now young men) stepping up to the plate and leading or playing at different churches, youth groups, & events. This school year, Levi- age 17 and Nathan- age 15 have been asked to be a part of the band that leads worship for the youth of our city. Fusion is a youth event that meets twice a month. Once a year they have a big all night party called Fusion 3D. Tonight Nathan is playing keyboard and Don is playing drums.

We only have three boys at home now. Levi is on a rotating worship team at Freedom Church playing bass guitar or box drum, and sometimes plays bass or guitar at Community Baptist Church (CBC). Nathan is playing piano at CBC every week and loves it. Samuel who is 11 years old plays drums at Spirit of Life church in Los Molinos where Don plays keyboard and I lead with singing. I absolutely love to enter into the presence of God as I lead the congregation to worship and adore the King of Kings!

It's about time!!

We put this blog on hold for a while, but now I feel led to get back to keeping it up. So much has happened since we launched our first tour! I think we will just catch up from our current life. Let me introduce you to our first grandchild! This is Jacer Steven Townley. He was born 8 months ago, on January 19, 2015.

He is so fun, and full of expression! Caleb, our second oldest son, and is wife Kyrie live in Redding, Ca. Caleb is working on getting an engineering degree. Kyrie's family is from Orland and they recently moved to Malaysia to be missionaries. We get to spend time with Caleb & his precious family every week or two. It's amazing how fast time flies! Jacer is now crawling! Click on the video to play. =)

What a joy to be a grandma! I've always loved children, but this is a special treat from the Lord! Blessings in Christ, Lisa Townley