The Wilkes Team

Much diligent work has been going on over at Honey Brook Farm! There is a saying – Many hands make light work! We have been blessed by so many wonderful helping hands.

Here are some recent pictures!

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On Friday Nights we usually have pizza as a family. Homemade pizza is the best kind you could ever have!

So Hannah and I had the joy of making pizza the other night together. I love working with my sister Hannah. She is such a joy to be with, and she always knows how to get the job done while have fun doing it. I would like to share with you our family’s yummy pizza recipe.

My brothers are always going back for their fifth or sixth ( sometimes ninth or tenth ) with this recipe! What a blessing it is to serve my family in this way.

Here is the Recipe for Wilkes Team Pizza:

This recipe makes 2 pizza’s, we usually quadruple or quintet it.

3 cups ~ Flour

2 Tblsp. ~ Sugar

2 1/4 tsp. ~ Fast rising Yeast

1/2 tsp. ~ Salt

1 cup ~ Warm Water

2 Tblsp. ~ Oil

Directions:

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine 1 cup of the flour, sugar, undissolved yeast, and salt; blend well.

2. Gradually add water and oil to mixture. Blend at low speed until moistened, then beat for 2 minutes at medium speed. By hand, add 1 1/2 to 2 cups flour until dough pulls away from sides of bowl.

3. On floured surface, knead in 1/4 to 1/2 cup flour, until dough is smooth and elastic, Cover loosely with plastic and let rest in a warm place for about 15 minutes.

4. Press out dough onto (2) 12-inch pizza pans, pick randomly with a fork.

5. Brush crusts lightly with oil then prebake them in a 450 degrees oven for 5 minutes.

6. Top as desired, then bake again in 450 degree oven for 4-5 minutes, or until desired doneness.

~ Don’t forget to add your favorite toppings on top!:-)

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Ephesians 4:8,11-16 says

“Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”

Words can’t describe how encouraged our family was by the FEW Conference in North Carolina last weekend!

The messages and the fellowship of likeminded believers inspired us and motivated us greatly to continue growing in our walks with the Lord.

We were encouraged to draw closer to one another and seek to be a family fitly joined together making a godly impact on all those that God brings along our path.

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Aye my friend, that’s the goal – contentment. It’s a worthy ideal, a wonderful pursuit, a fundamental yearning in every human breast, something to die for, a blessing only from above, an impossibility from below, perfected in Christ, evidenced in creation, beautiful when witnessed, inspiring when realized, stronger then any worry, mightier then any fear.  It’s the Christian’s goal, from birth until death, till Christ comes to take his pure bride home, and enjoy rapturous joy in celestial places.

Yet may I ask thee, my friend, do ye know what it means to rest content?

The good Lord commands ye and me to do so. It is not a preference, suggestion, or passing thought, but wholly a command. The writer of the excellent book, Hebrews, clearly lays out the view ye and me should take of contentment:

“Be content with such things as ye have: for he (God) hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”

There’s not a hole to be found to wriggle away from this clear truth. It’s straightforward and pronounced! We are commanded to be content.

If ye are like me,  this command often ends up suppressed by the many urgent tasks, priority items, egotistical thoughts, conformity to others opinions, and so on, that whirl around our lives. We know this is not right nor good but it happens time after time.

Because of this oft suppression, the decision was made to write this post so then it could be declared, quite plainly,  don’t ever give up! Just because ye and me don’t have the ideal shouldn’t mean we stop pursuing it. God will bless us in his most precise and wonderful way. Purpose to remember, pray to God that he will lead each of us to remember, that he is right beside us, ready to lead, guide, and empower. Aye, he will bring ye and me into the wonderful rest called contentment. Aye, my friend, I do believe so. Ye know why I believe? Well, let me tell ye one last thing: Because He is faithful!

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