This morning at 9:14, God blessed us with another grandbaby! Taheton is just amazing! He and Jenna are doing great. I’ve posted some pictures that you can view in the pictures link on the right. Check out these wonderful pictures. I just want to say thanks for your prayers and support during this time.
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Kylie and her best friend Emerson went to the mall tonight all dressed up. Look how cute they are!
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Chadian Lunch
Our trip to the Zoo - You will have to ask us about this zoo!
Please continue to pray for us, but more importantly, please keep Kenny and Teresa and their boys in prayer. This place is so hard on you physically, emotionally and spiritually. I’m worn out after a week! I just can’t imagine how difficult it is to know that you will be in this country for another year. So please pray for the Bass Family, the Brown family and the Holland family.
We are looking forward to our return home to share what all Good has done in us and through us. Just to keep you informed, we are planning on sharing our stories this coming Sunday during our service. I hope to see you all then! We are praying for you as well and I God moved yesterday at Sonlight. Love you all!
Fun in Chad - Wii bowling!
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Our Chad team is doing great, we are all healthy and well. Teresa and the ladies have been cooking some amazing dinners! In spite of their wonderful cooking, I just wanted to let Bob know that I have already lost seven pounds in the first five days! Go red team! Bob, you better put in some overtime in the gym this week.
We have already had one person accept Christ on this trip and we have another friend that is so close. Please continue to pray for him. I wanted to post a few more pictures from of our team serving here in Chad.
Kenny, Teresa, Jeremy and Jonathan
Ladies Cooking Class
Deena at the cooking class
Our Ladies
Our Friend
Traci making crafts with Chadians
Traci visiting her friend
Somebody has been stealing my butterfingers, guess who it is?
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We are currently in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, Africa. I’ve been sending emails to the church, so I will only post some pictures here. Hope this gives you an idea of what life is like here in Chad.
Foot Tattoo
Visiting the Chadians
All the Ladies Had their TATTOO!
Writing in our Journals
Phil measuring up a new door
Thank You for sending us! We miss you all!
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Many of you have probably received my phone call by now about taking the Spiritual Life Survey. I hope that you will take the 30 minutes to complete this survey. As of today, we have only had 46 people complete the survey and we are going to need at least 100 to get the best results. The survey is completely anonymous! With that being said, let me remind you that this survey is for those that are currently attending Sonlight. Once the survey is closed next week, this company will forward the results to me. I can already sense some change from this survey. I must admit, it’s very convicting! I think we have a lot to learn about being God’s church and I look forward to taking this journey with all of you! Click here to take the survey.
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Several months ago Penny dared to love her husband before the ‘Love Dare’ book was ever written. you have to listen to her testimony!
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What an amazing day at Sonlight! I just love being apart of this church. I must admit that I had some stress in the morning before service and I was very frustrated with some things, but I’m so glad that God moved in spite of me. I was so glad to be able to clear my mind and focus on God. Here are some of the highlights of the day:
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This weekend our staff enjoyed spending some time together at Smith Mountain Lake. We went there for a pastors conference, but we really enjoyed just spending time together more than anything else. When we first arrived, we went down to take a 45 minutes boat ride on the lake and we ended up spending twice as long on the lake. We saw some nice homes, but more importantly, we saw the beauty of God’s creation. Even though man made the lake by building a dam, God created the beauty of the mountians and valleys. I loved that place.
While we were there, Dave took us to his favorite golf course. He took the lead on the first hole and kept it until this amazing shot on hole #16. Yeah, it had to be me to take it to him! Check out this shot I made on my Flip Video.
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Last week I dared our church, especially the men, to get the Love Dare book and begin to practice loving their spouses. This 40 day devotional is amazing! Each day, there is a specific dare that you are to do in order to vove your spouse. The dare comes from the three page devitional that you just read. For an exmaple, day one’s dare was to say nothing negative to your spouse. Day two – Do at least one unexpected gesture as an act of kindness. Day three – Buy your spouse something that says, “I was thinking of you today.” Some days are more difficult than others. However, what I have discovered is that the book is changing me. It has rekindled the love, excitment and romance that we experienced early in life. It’s changing my thought patterns and having me think more and more about her instead of myself. I have this idea that I may just keep repeating the 40 days until I don’t even need to read them anymore.
I hope you took the dare to love your spouse last week. It will change you and your marriage for the better! This weekend, at Sonlight, you are going to hear an amazing story of how someone in our church continued to love their spouse even through the greatest storm of their life, and as a result, their spouse came to accept Chirst and they are now moving toward a better marriage! I can’t wait to see what God does this weekend. I hope to see you there!
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