Emmett and Wanda Pillault: News

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Current News - 2004

Yesterday, Monday May 3, 2004, Wanda and Her Granddaughter Angel Woodmansee, Grandson Brandon Marcos Filos Baker, and Greatnephews Dillion and Devon Moore, were involved in an accident on Hwy 603. The Lincoln TownCar is really messed up! Airbags came out and blew up the cellphone out of the cradle, banged up Angel's upper body area and she was rushed in an ambulance to the Hospital. After the car was towed away, and I gave all the authorities the information they needed, they went to the hospital where the rest of us were checked out. Mostly bumps and bruises on all. Thank you Jesus! Wanda has rested in bed most of Tuesday, May 4. Still light headed and achey wanted to contact all for prayer that God has His hands on getting another vehicle for transportation, and the other part pays for all Medical bills for all concerned. All are very happy to be alive. and Praise God for His Will being done on earth as it is in Heaven! They are running Head on with the devil. continue to pray a hedge of protection around them? So much ministry for the rest of the year and God is in control! Amen, Amen!!!

Emmett is working with Caffey Inc this week so Pray Wanda can open containers and pour water etc with her swollen hands.

2003 News

Saturday, August 2
We woke up at 5:00 am and were back on the road by 6:00 am. Went to
Vicksburg, MS and visited with our friend, Father Charles Boykins, from St. Mary Catholic Church. We had breakfast at Shoneys and gave him one of our new CD's.
WE left Vicksburg, MS about 8:00 am. We made a few phone calls to touch
base with some people. By 12:00 noon we were about 40 miles from Memphis.
by 6:20 pm we arrived at Wayne and Ellen Wolf's house in Cahokia, Illinois.
Wayne and Ellen were out of town. They left a key for Emmett and Wanda. Got
a great night's sleep.

Friday, August 1
Emmett did not work this day. We woke up at 6:00 am and read God's Word.
Showered ate breakfast talked with Judy's Mom. Began making calls to
get loans for car to pay for the transmission. Everything looked good
according to Harrison Finance. Went to WOSM Checked for lost keyboard stand, not there! Met Allen Frazier at the transmission place and gave him a
check. We prayed and Wanda proceeded in a homeward bound direction. Emmett
went back to WOSM to talk to Noah the Radio announcer who said he thought the
keyboard stand was there. . But to no avail! Emmett Believes at this
point that the keyboard stand must be at Faith Assembly Of God Church in Kiln.
Since Emmett did sing there the opening day for Vacation Bible School.
Emmett proceeded towards home. Wanda called Emmett and informed him of
a nail in one of the tires. She noticed it when she was getting gas.
Wanda said I believe God wants us to go to Sams to get our tire fixed..
Emmett got there first and established a place in line. Wanda asked Emmet to
price new tires. The tire man said over $480 for a new set. We didn't have
that kind of money. Emmett asked him to just fix the tire. He said the
tire could not be fixed. Wanda asked how much for one new tire or can
he just put some gum in it so they could get on the road! ;o)
The manager came by and said we only have blackwall tires. He saw we
had white walls on the Car. They checked the tread and the manager said
give her four new tires at 100% off. it costs us about $44 for 4 new
tires with a 6-year warranty, road hazard, anf free rotation. Praise the Lord! While
they were putting the tires on Emmett was just fooling around with a
sams guitar. He was singing the songs the Lord had given to him and a man
and his son were ministered to by the Holy Spirit. Emmett gave the man a CD
"Songs from the Real King" The man gave Em a love offering for the CD.
Finally Emmett and Wanda went home. All we needed to go to Harrison
Finance company to get the loan finalized was our title for our car.
Harrison finance said they could not do anything without the title. Emmett and Wanda looked and looked and looked. We called the transmission place and told the man who we gave him our check to please not cash it until we called him again. It was for almost $2000. Allen Frazier from the transmission place told Emmett
it looks like the devil is trying to discredit you. Lets pray. Emmett and
Allen prayed. At the same time Wanda heard God say Go to the title
place and order you another title. When Emmett got off the phone with Allen, we
jumped in the car - at this time it was about 4:00 p.m. On the Way to the
title place Harrison Finance calls and says why don't you go to the title
place and order you another title and bring me that. They went on with the
form to order another title and went on with the financing. We were finished
there about 5:20 pm and had to get to the bank before 5:30 to deposit
it! Emmett ran out to the car at 5:28 pm to deposit the check and at the
same time Wanda was calling Allen Frazier to tell him he can deposit the
check. . We received a call at 5:40 from Allen Frazier telling us he heard our
voice on the answer maching and ran out to beat the bank from closing
and made it just in time before the teller closed the drive-thru window.
God is never early, never late, always on time! We left directly after the
bank deposit and on our way to Cahokia, Illinois. We made it as far at
Jackson, Mississippi to sleep with a friend of ours. Dinner was waiting for us.
We had a pleasant dinner time with the family. Emmett ministered with his
new Omni Chord. The house was very old and they had just moved in. It was
full of spirits. We pulled out the oil and began to anoint the house with
oil from the attic to the basement. It was about 12:00 midnight before
we were finished. The couple wanted us to sleep in their bedroom because an
old woman's spirit would visit them everynight. We slept like babies and had
no visititation except The Holy Spirit and angels guarding as we rested.

Thursday, July 31
Emmett worked again at the Warehouse property for Caffey Inc. Wanda was home working on Cd's and packing for trip. Met Karen and David Grant for Dinner at Roosters. 9:30 pm drove to Vancleave, MS and spent the night with our friend, Judy Goodin.

Wednesday, July 30
Emmett worked at Warehouse Property for Caffey Inc. Emmett and Wanda
went to Church at their home church. Our Granddaughter Kimberly slept with
us this night.


Tuesday, July 29
Christiana Meka from Oklahoma is our new Webmaster! She has some great ideas and changes for our Web site. So keep your eyes on our Web site and watch for new things happening. Please keep Christiana and her family in your prayers. She is a blessing to volunteer to help with our website.

David Grant, our ex-Webmaster, will be missed! He is such a blessing to the ministry. He is so busy with his wife Karen Grant, with her new CD and ministry, that he doesn't have much free time to keep up with our stuff. So please keep them in your prayers?

Emmett worked again at the Warehouse Property for Caffey, Inc.. Wanda
was home Cleaning house and working on CD's. Emmett worked extra hours this day and someone gave him a couple of bikes.

This weekend, we are leaving for Cahokia, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. The transmission has gone out in our car. We can't understand why? There is only over 230,000 miles on our car from all the traveling! Dan's Auto Transmissions called and it is going to cost a little under $2000 to get it fixed. We know our God, and He has blessed us with our car, so we are praying that the finances come together so our car will be ready for Thursday evening.

We had a wonderful week last week. We had 9 children in our home all week going to Vacation Bible School. They all were blessed. Of course the devil is upset cause we had such a great week. Emmett, and a couple of the guys from his work, worked on an ex-crack house last week in New Orleans with some youth.

Thank you for your support and prayers. God richly bless you all!

Monday July 28
Emmett worked at the Warehouse Property for Caffey, Inc. After work
Emmett went over to Lakeview Nursing Home to look for his guitar. He asked
everyone there if they saw it. The guitar could not be found anywhere.
Emmett prayed more that God send angels to bring it back in Jesus Name.
Emmett went back to the Van where it wasn't and there it was! "God is
so Good"!!! Wanda was home making CD's for our travels.

Sunday, July 27
Granddaughters Angel and Kim spent Saturday night with Emmett and Wanda.
We ministered at Church of Good Shepherd in Pass Christian, MS. We sang
"Under the Blood" and "Take out the Papers and the Trash". We ate lunch with
the girls at China Palace. Visited the Miramar Home to see Marshall
Jastram. Wanda Saw one of her daddy's cousins, Stirley, who lives there too. At
5:45 p.m. ministered at Lakeview Nursing Home. When we returned home could not
find Emmett's Guitar.

Saturday, July 26
Emmett and Wanda's Granddaughters Angel and Kim went with them to
Gulfport to Shop at Sams. They took Angel and Kim home.
Emmett and Wanda Visited Wanda's Dad from 6:00 pm til 8:15 PM. As they
drove into their Drive Way the Transmission went out in their Car.

Friday, July 25
Emmett worked in New Orleans again! When work was over Emmett dropped
off a couple of youths to YWAM on the West Bank. Got to Vacation Bible
School for special awards night. Wanda had volunteered all day again at the
Vacation Bible School. Our Granddaughter Angel spent the night with
us.

Wednesday, July 23
Worked again in New Orleans "The Name of the House now is Kevin Brown's
House". Wanda Took the children to vacation bible school. One of the
Vacation Bible School Teachers did not show up. So Wanda volunteered to
stay and help out this day! Emmett and Wanda took all 9 of the children
with them to their home church. It was hamburger night so the children
had a great time!

Tuesday, July 22
3 Caffey members (Gary Chamblis, Troy Butler, and Emmett Pillault helped
remodel a former "Crack House" in New Orleans, LA 8917 Olive Street. They
all worked with Youth from the Church of Good Shepherd. Emmett Sang Songs
to everyone on their break time.

Monday, July 21
9:15 a.m. Emmett was off from work so he took the children (all 9 of
them) to Vacation Bible School. Since he was there Ms.Bridgett asked Em to
sing a few songs for the Children. "Under the Blood" and "One Way to Heaven".
After Vacation Bible School Emmett took the Children Swimming at the
Pond down the street from our house After Lunch.

Sunday, July 20
Teen Challenge was at our church to minister. We had dinner on the grounds after service. 3:00 pm we visited with Wanda's sister Debbie and her husband Frank. We brought Debbie's grandchildren, Wanda' great nephews home for the week. At 4:45 pm picked up our other grandchildren Chaunce and Angel. at 6:05 pm we were off to Faith Assembly Church in Kiln, MS.

Saturday July 19
Woke up at 8:00 am and read Gods word. Brought grandchildren to their Mama., our daughter Maria, then off to the High Tide Restaurant for a date! (Wonderful food) Great time of ministry. Two people father and son accepted the Lord! God Blessed us . Larry and Ellen Johnson the owners of the restaurant gave us a bunch of food to bring home. We had so much we shared some with our daughter Maria.

Friday July 18
Emmett and Jeremiah got up early and cut grass until 5:00 pm. At 7:30 pm
left for Slidell to Joy Fellowship Coffee house to see Karen and David
Grant. We brought our grandchildren Brandon, David and Kimberly with
us along with Jeremiah. After the Sing we went to the Howells and
spent the night.

Thursday, July 17
Emmett and Wanda went to WOSM Radio station ( 103.1 FM) with Looking around with Margaret Cooper at 2:00 pm. From the radio station went to Emmett's Brothers Birthday party in New Orleans He was 62 years-old. We left New Orleans around 7:30 pm went to Julie and Keith Howells' house in Carrierre, Mississippi and tuned their piano. Their son Jeremiah came home with us to spend the night.

Wednesday July 16
Emmett worked again in Mobile, Alabama. Wanda stayed home and tried to do house chores and catch up on CD's and news for the web site. We went to church at our home church, First Assembly of God in Waveland, Mississippi.

Tuesday July 15
Emmet worked in Mobile, Alabama again. Tuesday evening. Went to Karan and Jimmy Murrell's house for a surprise Birthday party. There is always a prayer meeting there!

Monday, July 14
Emmett went to work at Providence Hospital in Mobile, Alabama. Wanda got the grand kids and had some fun!

Sunday July 13
We went to minister at David Rodriguez's Church. We tried to get Chris Calamia to come with us but he did not show. But God blessed us for going. God Spoke to us in such an audible way through David Rodriguez. After church we all went out to eat Chinese food. Emmett and Wanda finally got to go home after a very long time away from home.

Saturday July 12
Fished up painting at Wendy's property. Went to Ryan's restaurant after painting. When we walked in, the man "Hustler," the steak, man who
cooks the steaks yells out loudly "Hey here he is "Under the Blood" and
Emmett sang the song to him. The entire Ryan's Restaurant applauded.
What a fun way to minister in Jesus Name!

Friday July 11
Painted all day at one of Wendy's Properties. God blessed Us.

Thursday, July 10
Went to lunch at Kids camp retreat. Met Robert and Marinella Olivier by Wendy's. Met Joe Lusher at Bible Tabernacle for service. It was a late night of camp meeting. After, Emmett, Wanda and Joe Lusher went to Shoneys and had meal and fellowship.

Wednesday July 9
We slept at a friend - Leslie came over at 10:30 am. We went with her to intercession at Believers Life Church. Awesome time with God. Then we went to Leslie's to eat a salad. Emmett got a foot message (what a blessing) Linds Coulon called about Woman's Aglow. We are booked for May 15, 2004. At 4:00 pm went back to kids camp ate and fellowshipped. Went back to Wendy's to pick up Wanda and Wendy for Church.

Tuesday July 8
Had lunch with the kids at the retreat camp and headed back. Wanda got real sick with stomach problems. Emmett took Wanda to her friend Wendy's house in Terrytown. Emmett went to Mississippi to pick up CD copier and some other things. Emmett went back to the retreat camp meeting. Left Wanda home to rest. The Holy Spirit poured out on each child.

Sunday, July 7
10:30 am on the road again. Well it's 5:02 pm and we're 160 miles from new Orleans. We will be ministering tonight at Bridge City, LA (Camp Meeting) arrived at Bible Tabernacle at 7:02 pm did a couple of songs, "Behold I stand, and Any Day Now" Pastor Thomas preached.

Sunday, July 6
Morning, ministered with organ at the Cahokia Family Fellowship! It was a very long service... on Sunday night tent meeting guitar and musicians played with us. Sunday 11 pm, we left St Louis drove about 2 1/2 hours stopped at Best Western Hotel.

Saturday, July 5
Ministered am in Church Cahokia Fellowship Center. Soooo many souls were touched about 4:30 went back to church ministered in the church again. Saturday night was Awesome!

Friday, July 4
Woke up at 7:00 am Free Contential Breakfast. We left at 9:00 am. Made calls to minister to some friends on our cell phone. One of our friends were being rushed to the hospital due to bacteria in blood., 12:00 pm - stopped at Wendy's for salad. Arrived in Illinois at 6:30 pm., Just in time for service. Played Omni and sang "Under the Blood."

Thursday, July 3
Last day of Kids Kamp. Left at 1:30 pm. Stopped at BarnHills' Restaurant. Got home about 7:30 pm. Dispensed Kids. Repacked and left for St. Louis, MO. We stopped at 9:05 pm and slept at Shoneys Inn.

Wednesday, July 2
Em did devotion all day and night and ministered in song with the new Omni Chord "Under the Blood"

Tuesday, July 1
At chapel time in camp my granddaughters, Angel and Kimberly both got touched by the Holy Spirit. God is so good. It was hectic with over 30 children in Wanda's Cabin but we had 4 counselors so it was not too bad. The girls had 3 minute showers which was rough.

Monday, June 30
6:30a.m. -11:30am we packed and met our pastor at the Feed Store down the street from our house. We are on our way to Kociaco, MS to Kids Kamp with a car full of Kids. Our Pastor has a car full too! We arrived at 4:30 pm.

Sunday, June 29
We went to Vancleave Assembly of God Church and ministered in Song. We sang the Anchor Holds and had a wonderful fellowship. Our Friend Judy gave us one of her husbands' Omni Chord's. It is a real blessing! We packed and went home. Our Granddaughter spent the night with us.

Saturday, June 28
We ministered with Ron Meyers from 10:am to 1:00 pm at Street Jam in D'Iberville, Mississippi at Harvest Fellowship Church. It was a bunch of fun. We sang and fellowshipped with everyone there! Lots of people. It rained so they moved the music inside the church. At 1:340 - 4:30 pm Family Christian Bookstore invited us to set
up a table with our CD's in Gulfport Mississippi. This was our first time we
were in a family Christian Book Store autographing our CD's and giving
testimony about our lives.. We Went to Judy Goodin's, our Friends house
in Ocean Springs to spend the night.


Friday, June 27
Monday through Thursday of next week, we will be counselors at a children's camp. Once we drop the children off to their parents, we are on our way to minister at the arch in St. Louis, Missouri over the holiday weekend, then home Tuesday, July 8! Then it's over to Bridge City, Louisiana for a camp meeting through the 10th. We are praying for more bookings to come in for July. Because of the time we are spending on the road, Emmett will not be able to work at his usual day job.


Wednesday, June 18
Our sixth CD project "Filling Me Softly" is doing well. We do not know when it will be finished. We are taking our time with this one! Mark McCraw from Audio Mark Studios has worked really hard on this project. We will let you know the titles of the songs, and when it will be released, in the very near future!


Wednesday, May 7
This past Friday, we and some other people had a bake sale, in front of Wal-Mart in Waveland, Mississippi, to help children who cannot go to camp. We only made $228. That will only take two children. We have about 10 children in our church (First Assembly of God in Waveland) who want to go to camp. The families in our church are not rich. Anything extra is such a big strain. There are a few people who do not go to church whose children want to go too. We would love to be able to invite them to camp too! Wal-Mart has a grant that we are praying will double the money soon; the monies have to be in to the camp by May 15. The camp is from June 30 through July 3. We are going to volunteer as counselors. Please keep this issue in your prayers. This is an outreach ministry that is so important. How else are we going to reach children unless we show them we really care???

Saturday, we worked most of the day cleaning house. But living in such a small area doesn't help much!

Sunday was Mothers' Day. Wanda's youngest daughter Maria, her husband Brian, and 3 grandchildren, Kimberly, Brandon, and David, came to church with us. They took us out to eat Chinese food after church! We had a blessed time.

We went to Woodland Village Nursing Center in Diamondhead, Mississippi to minister to the mothers who do not get to go home for whatever reason... and of course some of the men come out too to hear us sing.

Sunday night, we ate dinner at Tina's (Wanda's oldest daughter) house. Tina, her wonderful husband Tom, and two grandchildren, Chaunce and Angel, were there. We have another granddaughter, Ashleigh, but she was away for the day. They barbecued steaks, and we swam in their pool. It was a great day. Even Wanda's son Tommy called from Tennessee where he lives at this time.


Wednesday, May 7
Last night, we went to Audio Mark Studios and finished laying the music track of our 6th CD "Filling Me Softly"! Now we just have to get there to lay the lyrics track! God has a plan.

On Wednesday, May 21, AFR (the nationwide American Family Radio network) will begin a radiothon. Wanda will be at WAOY, the AFR station in Gulfport, Mississippi, working the telephones, and doing whatever else may be helpful. Wanda can only volunteer one day of this radiothon, though, because both of us will be leaving for San Antonio, Texas for ministry May 22-25.


Friday, May 2
Today, we went to Woodland Village Nursing Center in Diamondhead, Mississippi. They had a special day to thank the volunteers who come and minister there. It was very nice. Emmett sang and ministered again as usual.


Thursday, May 1
Our schedule is so busy we can not get back to Audio Mark Studios again to work on our new CD until next Tuesday. The name of the new CD is "Filling me Softly."

Our pastor was teaching on outreach and witnessing last night, and Emmett wrote a new song "Over and Over" in the service. Now he's polishing it up!


Wednesday, April 30
The recording time went well last night! We got down 4 music tracks. Praise the Lord. God is so good! We are praying for more time Thursday night to get a few more down. Looks like there will be 12 songs on this next CD. Please keep us in prayer?


Saturday, April 26
Tuesday, April 29, we are recording a new CD at Audio Mark studios. Pray we can get all the music down?

Oh! We have a jungle again this year. Almost 7 years in this yard, and we have been given lawn mowers that come into our yard and die. Someone passed by - maybe last year or the year before - and tooted their horn and asked Wanda if we fix lawn mowers. She just responded NO! This is where they come to die!

If anyone knows someone who has a good riding lawn mower who may have had a big yard and now is moving into apartments and doesn't need a riding mower anymore, please let them know about us? We are desperate. Or does anyone have room for two people to move in with them??? 'Cause soon our yard is going to be so overgrown we won't be able to get in it!


Tuesday, April 22
Emmett has scheduled to attend a Promise Keepers retreat on June 6, 7, and 8. Please keep him in your prayers!


Monday, April 21
Friday, we worked on 4 old push mowers to get them running. Well, one tried to go, but only for a second. So Easter Sunday, we had a jungle in our yard. It didn't matter. We had our two faviorite nephews sleep with us Friday night.

Saturday, Emmett went to our church to help out cleaning up and painting. We went to a friend's house for lunch, to celebrate our return to the USA. Several other people were there. We had a great time. Didn't leave from there until 8:00 pm.

Wanda woke up Saturday night with a dry hurting throat, and by time for church Sunday morning, she was burning up with fever. Emmett went to church and had everyone pray for her. Monday, we went to see the doctor. He gave Wanda a shot and some antibiotics. She is sweating out all the yuck in her body! Her throat really hurts - she can't eat anything because of the pain. Emmett went to work to give her some quiet time.


Friday, April 18
Back from Scotland Monday night - actually Tuesday at 1 am. We slept for a little while, but we were awakened very early by one of our daughters, so we just got up and went to New Orleans, to stay at a friend's house for the night, to be close to where we would be ministering on Wednesday - specifically, Believer's Life Christian Academy in Harvey, Louisiana, where on Wednesday morning at 9:30, we took part in a chapel service. We were received by about 200 children from pre-kindergarten through 7th grade. We gave some testimony of what happened to us in Scotland, and sang some songs to the children. They really listened to what we had to say. They were so excited about the upcoming Easter holiday coming soon, but they truly listened. We had an altar call, and about 80 of the 200 came up to receive Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. WOW!! God is so good. We were going on God's strength when we went.

Emmett took off the whole week to tie up some loose ends, help do laundry, and find a lawn mower to cut the grass (3 acres) before the weekend. He Got AAA to come and pull Wanda's Lincoln out of the hole she put it in before she followed him to Scotland. We only have about $900 more in bills to be paid off for this month, and God is putting together the money. What an awesome God We serve!!!! Thank you all for all your prayers and support!

Thursday and the jet lag was still with us! It was Grandparents' Day, and we went to school and had lunch with Chaunce and Kimberly, two of our grandchildren.


In March and April, Emmett and Wanda spent 6 weeks in Scotland. Read about it on the Scotland 2003 diary page.


Thursday, March 6
Emmett leaves tomorrow for Scotland. Wanda will follow him on Monday, March 17, and we will both be gone until Monday, April 14. They're planning some church ministry for us - concerts in the churches there. We do not have an itinerary yet. We will try to send a news update for the Web site at least once a week. Just our traveling to Scotland should be interesting, since we are traveling alone this time - not in a team! Someone paid for our flight! We are still in need for the household bills. But we are at peace that God will supply! God richly bless you for your faithfulness! (Editor's note: Please see the support page for information about how to make a donation to Emmett's and Wanda's ministry.)

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