A House For My Kids

Dear Friends!

There is always so much to tell! Sometimes that is what keeps me from updating here. It takes time to sit down and update…these days, there is just not much of that thing called time. I really don’t know what I used to sit around and do!

Anyway, enough of that…the kids are waiting for me and so I must again be brief. Thank you again for checking on us! We love you right back. We are headed out tonight to Oklahoma to sing at a Gospel Barn in Colgate, Ok.  Then we make our way to Lubbock, Texas for two Sundays worth of Churches to sing and share our testimony. We are mad busy in the office filling orders, organizing our business paperwork, doing taxes, getting it all together for the bank as we try to get an approval on a construction loan. Once we get that approval, we will have a small list of things to carry to the city to get the actual building permit to start construction. We are so close! Construction loan approval is the only real hurdle to jump at this point. Should not have any problems getting approved…but there is so much work to do to get it done. Letters to write, taxes to do and show, letters to get from others, and so much more. CD sales are what God sent to us to get to this point. We know that He hasn’t brought us to here for no reason. We are optimistic and excited about things.

I believe that my last blog was about Sean’s hospital stay as I had to take the other children to Texas with me. Well to make it short…God brought some pieces of the puzzle our way after Sean had to go through a Bronchoscopy. We then had a waiting time where we figured out that Sean’s stomach was not emptying out properly and on time and also that the Zantac was causing his appetite to not be what it should be. Once those things were addressed…Sean started eating like a horse and has not let up yet! Are you ready for this?….He gained 6 pounds in a week and a half!!! It is a miracle! He ate 3 6 ounce steaks a day for several days in between snickers bars and anything else we could throw at him. All this while at the hospital! Toward the end of the two week stay…( remember now…I am in Texas in a Winnebago with the other three kids…just soaking up the Sun and eating Bon-Bons! While Diane is working herself to the bones at the hospital with Sean. No TV…no nurses to help…laundry and dishes to wash everyday there in the hospital room…treatments to do 3 times a day since she had no help from nurses…I am being fecitious! I drove and drove and drove…the whole time yelling back at the 3 kids with me to pick that stuff up off of the floor! Grace, stop hitting your sister! Jeffrey, have you and Grace done the vest? Katie, put down that Sharpie! Yes I know you’re all hungry! We’ll get there when we get there! So go use the bathroom if you have to use the bathroom… we’re in an Winnebago for crying out loud! Can I say how much I missed my wife!!) the doctors came in to talk about what all would happen with the feeding tube…wait a minute! We don’t need no stinking feeding tube! Sean is not the same patient that he was when we got here! They agreed and they sent us home. Me and the other 3 got home the same day and we had a real time of rejoicing!!

Here’s a side note…ain’t it amazing how we get back to our own ways after the flood is gone? God showed us so much mercy, Grace, provision, favor and a miracle or two! Once the emergency was over…it was back to business as usual.

‘OK God…Thanks. I got it from here. Ever done that? Seems after a short time that I got back to things as if He hadn’t done a thing for us! Remember the story of Jesus…how just one of the lepers that Jesus healed, came back to give Him glory and honor out of the many in that same group? ( I should stop and look this story up and tell you how many ) Ain’t it something when Jesus speaks specifically to a certain situation…when we find ourselves in that very place.
‘I write this as part confession and encouragement.  Remember that God pays just as much attention to Monday morning as He does Sunday morning! He insists on being the center of our lives when we have money in the bank just the same as when we have nothing and are crying out to Him!  He is so gracious and merciful! He forgives me for failing time and time again. Aren’t you glad that He is always at work in our lives! He has something for each of us to do. A work that each of us is suited for and gifted with for His good purpose. Are you ready?  No…probably not…I’m not…but He makes up all the difference for my shortcomings. Are you ready? Don’t matter…just tell Him that you are willing…He’ll make you ready!

Oh yeah…I got nominated again in the top 10 for the 14th Annual Inspirational Country Music Awards.

Nominated for Male Vocalist of the Year! and for Songwriter of the Year! The show will be aired on The TBN Network!

and they asked me to sing on the awards show with Tammy Cochran!!!   Can you say…Greg, you’re dieting aren’t you?

We are thrilled to see God continue to bless this thing that He gave us to do. Please go to the hyperlink…sign up for membership in The CCMA and hopefully you’ll be in time to get a ballot to vote for The ICM Awards. ( This is strictly for what the publicity will do for our cause…you understand. )

Hey, I gotta go…there’s still a bunch to tell…Sean is sitting here telling me he’s hungry again. Pray for us and Kroger!

gregmcdougal@ahouseformykids.com

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Hey, I am not getting booked into churches unless someone that the pastor knows calls him up and says…’it’s OK…he’s with me’    Please be in prayer about recommending us to a pastor to come to a church near you to tell of God’s grace in our lives and sing a few songs. The kids are now singing ‘The Lighthouse’ in 3 part harmony! The love offerings are how God is providing for the rent and light bill while CD sales go to the house fund! Big church, small church…it does not matter. God is the one who provides! Thanks! Remember to tell a friend about this cause and web site…

Thank You Patrick Thomas and Devon O’Day for your support on Country Spirit that you can hear on WSIX here in Nashville on Sunday mornings 7 to 9 AM.

Thanks to Big D and Bubba and Patrick Thomas for re-airing the interview from last year…we sold a bunch of CDs last week because of it!

Thanks to Les Butler and Salem Communications for playing our songs on The Old Country Church and Front Porch Fellowship! Both of them are syndicated programs playing all over the place!

Thanks to Rich Miller for playing ‘Loving You’ on The Powersource Top 20. Syndicated on over 90 stations across the US. This song is so special to us…and to have so many hear it with Tammy Cochran singing with me on it…Do you see how God has drastically changed our lives through ‘The Work of a Carpenter’?