Hello to everyone!

My name is Don Gelles and I am the gospel preacher for the Church of Christ in Hyde Park located in Austin, Texas. I am 39 years old (the big 40 in July) and have been a gospel preacher for 16 years.

My wife, Alicia, and I have three children along with copper our lazy but loveable Beagle. Oh yeah, we just added Dexter a rather small funny looking Hampster. Don't ask what happened with the cat . Hey, I said don't ask !

I look forward to learning and growing along side all of you.

Brotherly,
Don

Howdy Don and glad to have you on board!

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In Christ,
brother Sonnie

Howdy Don, and welcome! Long time no hear.

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--Laura

O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
Jeremiah 10:23 (NKJV)

Welcome from one Texan to another!

We are the same age Don. I turn 40 this December! :raped:

We are more alike than I thougtht, other than the similarity of our wifes...

Does your wife "wake you up" to tell you it's time to go to bed? I always tell Alicia that waking me up to tell me it's time to go to sleep just doesn't make sense! Am I alone on this?

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Don Gelles,
Preacher, Church of Christ in Hyde Park
Austin, Texas
www.hydeparkcoc.org

Quit going to sleep in the chair and she won't have to wake you.

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For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim 2:5 (U-NASB)

Me? Fall asleep? I might if my 8 mo old were not in my lap..She keeps me young!

Babies.

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--Laura

O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
Jeremiah 10:23 (NKJV)

39? Yer just a youngster.


Does he chase squirrels n rabbits in such?

Any half decent farm cat can take care of that problem. Ain't real sure bout town cats. I have gotten pictures in my email of cats n hamsters snuggled up together. Those ain't farm cats.

Don't tell me the hamster ate the cat. That's unscriptural.

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"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him." 1 John 3:18-19

The church of Christ at Granby

Hello to a fellow beagler. I do hope you use him for his God given talents and not the unnatural use of a beagel for house pet. Turn that fellow lose and let him chase a rabit or two. Besides being fun they are also mighty tasty (yum, yum).

The beagel or the rabbit??????

That's my question also!!

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For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim 2:5 (U-NASB)

Question:

Is it sinful to eat you child's pet?

If I did, I would at least have to have some moores marinade or bbq sauce with it...

I was told once by a Vietnamese man who was an English language student of mine, that white dog was best. He was dead serious...

Well...being a preacher times can get a little tough so you do what you have to to feed the family!

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Don Gelles,
Preacher, Church of Christ in Hyde Park
Austin, Texas
www.hydeparkcoc.org

A couple of years ago in Las Cruces, NM, they arrested this man who ate his cat. Evidently his neighbors witnessed him killing has cat, then cleaning him, and then he put the cat on the bar-b-que grill and cooked him. Upon his arrest he told the police that he was out of a job, hungry, and no money so he decided to eat his cat. As he said, “It was my cat, I did not steal him. What did I do wrong?”
Poor guy, never did hear how that turned out?

We've got coyotes and ferel hogs in this area if you are interested?

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For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim 2:5 (U-NASB)

We got mangy red foxes and pole cats.

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--Laura

O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
Jeremiah 10:23 (NKJV)

I would have to admit (Amy will verify) that I will (and have) eat a lot of things, but my beagles are not on the list. As long as I have my beagles and my gun hopefully we can hunt something to eat. Although Amy would have to really hungry to eat whatever I might bring home. I can not even get her taste rabbit and I don't understand why.

How did it turn out?

Probably in tacos. Everybody knows that taco spelled backwards is "o cat."

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Don Gelles,
Preacher, Church of Christ in Hyde Park
Austin, Texas
www.hydeparkcoc.org

That reminds me of a story. I was working a seismic job a few years ago on a prison in Texas. I can't remember the name of it right now but it was one of those working prison farms. Anyway they raised hogs and the prisoners would turn them loose from time to time and they would go feral. These ole hogs were ornery too.

Anyway, a seismograph machine used to monitor blast vibrations had been set up to monitor a blast at a windmill way out in the back woods of the penitentiary property. It was the end of the day and the battery in my radio was almost dead. I could hear but I couldn't transmit. We had all been warned about the feral hogs and stay away from them. I was out there to collect the seismograph and bring it in.

Anyway, I couldn't get my pickup close to the windmill because of all the underbrush so I had to hike a small distance. As I was hiking through the brush, almost dark with a weak battery in my radio I glanced down and saw a tiny little piglet walking ahead of me in the trail. The little fella couldn't'a been more'n a half a pound and he was skinny. So.... I reached down and grabbed the cute little fella and picked him up. That itty bitty piggie sure could squeeel and that is exactly what he did. And loud too. About that time I thought "uh oh, where's mamma?" about the same time I realized I was a few yards away from the safety of my pickup.... Not good!!!

I heard the deepest most ominous grunt from a pig I have heard in my life just off to my side a little bit, and I heard the brush crashing as she came to investigate why her little baby was throwin such a fit. Remember it was gettin dark.

It did not take me very long to pet the baby pig. I was done with him pretty quickly and put him back on the ground where I found him and he shut up but the underbrush kept crashin and it was gettin louder real fast. Mamma was movin fast and she meant business.

I decided the seismograph could wait and I made a fast dash to my pickup and jumped over the side into the bed of it. I never saw mamma pig, but she tromped around just out of site makin noise and breaking brush... Big brush,,,,, blowin snot and grunting for quite some time while I waited her out in the back of my truck. I figgered the size of the pig to be in direct proportion to all the noise she was makin'..... Dead battery in the radio. I could hear them talking about me. David hasn't checked in yet, where's David? I couldn't get my radio to transmit good enough for them to pick me up, believe me, I tried. Big brush breakin = big mad pig.... I wasn't about to get outta the back of that truck with all that goin on.

I remember thinkin while I set in the back of my truck waiting for either the pig to give it up or for the crew to come find me that it sure would be nice to be home and not out in the back 40 of the Darrington State Prison with the wild hogs after dark, settin on the toolbox in the back of my pickup swattin skeeters.

Eventually the old grumpy sow collected her noisy piglet and left and I got down out of the back of my pickup and went and got that seismograph. That was funny too. It was under an old windmill. I kept thinking the sow was gonna charge me in the dark and my plan was to race her to the windmill and climb it if I had to then race her back to my truck afterwards. I was a lot younger then and alot more capable of a sprinter.

Should that happen now, and, were I stupid enough to pick the piglet up, I'd probably stretch out in the back of my truck and go to sleep.

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"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him." 1 John 3:18-19

The church of Christ at Granby

Now that is a great story...I noticed you did not throw pearls at it. You did the right thing, RUN!