Ellie and Derek's birthday parties!! 
John's brother Matt and his family came for Ellie's party.
Derek had friends from school come to his. 
Tori is playing soccer on her school team- GO DEFENSE!!!!
This is her 1st year being able to play on a school team and she is doing great and is having a blast.
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Here is a great video to watch!
Here Am I, Send Me - MercyMe
Becki took a couple of pictures and I thought maybe we should share them.
This is the kitchen and dining room. 
This is the living room.
Hallway from livingroom to bedrooms.
We just got back from our first test this semester. It was for Romans class, from chapter 1 - 3:20, where Paul argues that ALL mankind is condemned whether "heathen", moralist or Jew, we are all condemned.
Praise God that Jesus has paid all that we could never have paid!!!
Today in Chapel, our speaker shared from Matthew 11:27-30. What a privelege it is to be a Christian and to be conformed to the image of His Son through getting to know Him. The context of this section is on getting to know God and Jesus says that we will learn from Him. When we take His yoke upon us He will teach us, just as a mature oxen teaches the young oxen as they plow a field. The mature oxen leads and does all the work until the young one learns. Isn't it GREAT that we can and do learn from Jesus, through His Word!!!!
We thank every for thinking of us and praying for us as we, by faith, follow God's plan for using us in this fallen world.
We can't wait to hear from you and to hear what God is doing in your life.
Please continue to pray for our kids as they have started school again and will have a busy schedule again. Tori is planning on play soccer with her school and we are hoping to get Chloe and Ellie back into Saturday morning gymnastics class.
Obviously summer was too busy to BLOG, so now that we are back and life has calmed down again... here we go again!
School started on Wednesday, and God is again showing us that He is the one who initiates world evangelization.
Romans 10:14-15, 17
"How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news." "Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ."
God has given the message (the Gospel) to be preached and He has commanded us to "go into all the world".
A qoute from our Romans class notes:
"It is His gospel that He promised beforehand in His scriptures that He inspired through His prophets that He had chosen to speak His message - it is the gospel of His Son. And it is God who is reaching out to the world with His gospel."
We are so glad to be able to spend so much time in studying God's word. A special thanks to all who have helped us to get here and to all who are continually praying for and supporting us while we are here.
Our home church, North Baptist Church, treated us so well this past summer, what a blessing it was to be able to go home and feel so loved and be so blessed.
here are some pics of the last couple weeks!!
