While we were in North Carolina earlier this month visiting Emily’s grandparents, we did some geocaching and made a video of our adventure with Emily’s brother and my sisters:
Aug
13
We’ve been very busy lately with camp weeks, which is great since we love camp, but it’s also very draining! Two weeks ago we were the mission for MMAD week at DCSC. For those that aren’t familiar with that week, MMAD stands for Music Multimedia Art and Drama. The youth (8th-12th grade) and staff have one week to put together a full blown stage production.
This year was an original play called RSVP that takes place the day before a young couple’s wedding and uses the setting to compare the marriage relationship to our relationship with Jesus. Emily was helping with music and I was in charge of all things tech (mostly lights and sound). It was a great week and we are very grateful to everyone who donated to PBT in support of our ministry!
Looking for an opportunity to recover from MMAD week, we headed down to North Carolina last weekend with my sisters Sarah and Loree, and Emily’s brother Daniel. Emily’s grandparents have a house on Lake Gaston and we had a wonderful and relaxing weekend with them. Between tubing, fishing, playing music, and geocaching, we still found time to get plenty of much needed rest. Check out the photos from the trip in our photo gallery.
From there we drove up to Indian Lake Christian Service Camp where we have to opportunity to be the mission for a Sr. High week that our good friend Charles is leading. Emily is staying all week and helping out as a dorm mom and team leader. Unfortunately I am out of vacation days, so Monday night I had to head back home to work for the rest of this week. I’ll be going back on Friday to stay for the final night and to pick up Emily.
So that’s what we’ve been up to lately. Still no bids on our house, but we did have two people look at it last week. Our friend Billy says that the housing market is picking up and that we could have a sale soon. We’re praying that he’s right.
Jul
16
Sunday morning we briefly spoke at Capitol City Church of Christ in Dover, DE. They were already quite familiar with Bible Translation and PBT since they are Brian Paris’ home church (in fact, it was through Brian that we first learned about PBT). We are very grateful for their hospitality and support!
Take a look at this video that Adam Shreve (from the PBT media team) put together to be played at this year’s CIY events. Good stuff!
Jul
5
Last Sunday we presented at Dagsboro Church of Christ in the morning, and then Countryside Christian Church (in Cambridge, MD) in the evening. Both presentations went well. Both of the time slots for these presentations were a little shorter than we have had in the past, so we are learning to trim things down, which is good because it helps us focus on what is important.
We used the small screen plea at Countryside to try to convince them to move forward in the auditorim, and just as it did at Ocean View it worked perfectly here also, so we will definitely be using that trick from now on. Having everyone together and close to us really helps us to communicate effectively.
We are the mission this year for the Seaford Christian Church VBS program. Tomorrow night we are going to be speaking briefly for the opening program. Seaford was where we did our first presentation back in May and we are looking forward to catching up with everyone there again.
