Hello From Eastern Michigan,

[tom]

Hello From Eastern Michigan,

We are Tom and Kathy Lotter and children Lauren 13, Seth 9, Levi 7 and Lydia 4 We are in rural Silverwood MI.

We are dairy farmers and also have dairy goats, meat sheep and laying hens. We also own an Auction Company.

We are Baptist and after one year of study on the topic of the Head covering, we began to cover in November of 2001.

We find ourselves in very close agreement with the statements made by Bro. Ben as far as lifestyle, doctrinally and practice, although we have not arrived at our own ideal in each of these areas.

We have really enjoyed reading the posts on this site. It would be very nice to be able to fellowship with others who share the same ideals to encourage us in our walk.

[benshelpmeet]

Greetings Bro Tom (and sister Kathy)! We are so glad to have you both on board here, we hope you will be blessed and find like minded fellowship. Thats why we started this site is to find like minded fellowship, over the years we have met some dear friends.

Do you have a good church to go to or to yall home church? We have our services in our home because there are no like minded churches in our area, we travel to other churches for fellowship.

We have moved to a new area far away from where we were, we know no one in our area and we do not have any extended family, we get pretty lonely for fellowship and we go to churches we know about for fellowship. We are praying for the Lord to send us like minded christians to fellowship with. Please keep us in your prayers.

We know the Lord led us to buy this property and to build a house here, so we wait on the Lord.

We raise a small herd of Boar goats that we milk, we love their milk it taste so good, we find these goats will keep good weight all year around and are not picky eaters, and we can use them for meat too.

We had about 50 chickens and roosters, but since we had our chicken coop built this summer something is getting in through cracks in the barn and eating mostly my precious hens. I'm down to 10 roosters and 10 or 11 hens. (our chicken coop is built up against our barn, the barn wall is the inside wall of our coop.) We use to keep them in chicken tractors (movable chicken house) in the yard and nothing could get them not even dogs.

May the Lord greatly bless your sweet family as you serve Him there in MI.

~ sister Darlene ~

[tom]

Hello Sister Darlene,

Thank you for the warm welcome today.

Bro. Tom

[Brother Ben]

Good morning, Bro. Tom. Welcome to the board! It's nice to have you, Kathy, and family here. It is nice to meet other believers that are traveling along the same lines, too bad the miles in between are so great. I work in telecommuicaitons. It would be nice to work at home, but alas, this is the trade the Lord lead me into years ago and it has been a good way to provide for the family.

I have ambitions of starting a woodwork shop and making products I can sell and who knows, perhaps the Lord will bless it and I can come home from the "big city" (Nashville.) I work on the road, mostly, here in Middle Tennessee. We are a bit slow right now, but we have some big contracts pending and we'll all be back running soon.

Looking forward to more discussions. The Lord's blessings on you and yours,

Bro. Ben

[tom]

Hello Bro. Ben,

Thank you for the nice welcome.

I have been traveling much yesterday and again today for the auction business so I haven't had much time to respond.

I will catch up with you when I can.

By the way, I printed off your post "A Pure Child" to take with me today to read. It looks very interesting and I am looking forward to reading it completely when I have a quiet moment.

It's been nice getting to know your family through the your posts.

Bro. Tom

[dianatyree]

Welcome Lotter family! We lived in Owosso Mich. for 3 years and then moved back to Ohio. We have Boer goats and a mini farm. I look forward to getting to know you. Diana Tyree

[Tammy]

Welcome, Bro. Tom!