It is such a blessing to look back over the happy years of your growth into a man of God! We thank the Lord for allowing you to be a member of our family and praise Him for your wholehearted eagerness to lay aside all else in pursuit of the incredible journey He has prepared […]
Michael and I both had joyous celebrations this month and are thanking the Lord for another year to serve Him! Praise the Lord for his goodness and the wonderful works he has done to us. We plan to make this a year of thanking Him and declaring His works with rejoicing! (See Psalm 107:21-22)
What! A memory verse challenge? That’s right, they have that every January! Oops. We realized we were a week late but David and I decided to jump in anyway and take the challenge to memorize Hebrews 12. There are 29 verses in the chapter so we hurried to catch up. Our goal was to memorize […]
This morning we read Psalm 133 about the beauty of brethren dwelling together in unity. At breakfast we all talked about what has helped us in our efforts to be best friends. Michael: One thing that has helped me build good relationships with my brothers and sister is realizing that it is my fault if […]
Praise the Lord for how He has blessed these first few weeks back in the schools and Bible Clubs! This semester I have started doing a Bible Club near a school where I have taught character for 3 years. One day as I was walking a little girl from school to Club, she asked why […]
What a refreshing, encouraging, rejuvenating week it was way out in the wilderness seeking the Lord and training the team to teach at school and Bible Club. I had a lot of new classes to teach which was a good stretch for me. The Lord is so faithful to give creative ideas! It was a […]
It was a good feeling to move into our new offices and have a couple weeks to pull together the details of starting a new session. It’s pure joy to work with this incredible team! Our days began with prayer and were filled with all kinds of projects. I learned so much! Revising paperwork taught me […]
There was a marriage conference held here at the Training Center and so I volunteered to help the Gomez family run the children’s program. A few days before the conference, we got word that there were only five children signed up for the program and one was a baby. So Brianna and I prayed asking […]
Earlier this month I joined the Christiansen’s, Gomezes and Julie for a relaxing staff retreat in the beautiful countryside of MN. I’d never been there before and enjoyed my stay immensely! We had a grand celebration for Norm and Marlys’s 40th wedding anniversary, went hiking at national parks, boated down the St. Croix river that […]
Saturday I flew into MN to meet up with our In The Gap team for a staff retreat! At the airport I enjoyed observing many grand reunions of those who had had a long day of travel. Suddenly faces lit up from across the room as people ran to greet their loved ones with a […]