Kick off went great!

Well, we kicked of the 1st sunday at Calvary Chapel Everett on Sunday. We were so blessed to see how the Lord provides. There were quite a few people who showed up, many who were very familiar with Calvary Chapel and some who had no idea, but were willing to come in and take a gander. Lots of people were prayed with and people we never thought would have been impacted by the service, gave us some very encouraging words after the service. Everything worked out wonderfully and we are excited to see what God does and who he brings next week. Unfortunatly we forgot our camera so you will have to wait for pictures until next week.

All is going well on the home front. Tadd was able to attend the Lake Stevens Men's conference last Saturday and then the Seattle Pastors Conference on Monday and Tuesday. He was very blessed and Charity was able to get some much needed housework done.

We have not heard any updates on our adoption yet but are hoping to hear with in the next week or so. Please pray that the Lord will do an amazing work in Haiti and our adoption will be pushed through the paperwork pile up. Thanks so much for your continued prayer. I was reading in Daniel a few days ago and it was talking about when the King Cyrus said all the Jews that had been taken captive in Babylon could go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the city. Only a small portion of the Jews wanted to go back and it greeved Daniel so much he started to pray and fast for the people. On the 24th day of his fast an Angel came to him and said that he had tried to come the first day that Daniel had humbled his heart and set his heart to understanding God, but the Devil had intercepted him and he fought with him for 21 days until Michael the Arch Angel came to help him. It really helped me to realize what a spiritual battle we are in every day. I wonder what would have happened if Daniel would have given up praying after a day, a week or a few weeks. As God helped me to see how important prayer is, it made me so thankful for all of you who pray for us and our kids consistantly. Thank you agian so much.

Start'en up

Well this is the weekend we are helping to start up the Calvary Chapel Everett church. Please pray that God would bring lots of people who need to hear of His love and that we would be receptive to the needs of the people that God brings. We are starting out with Pastor Ken and his family, our family and a worship leader, as far as I am aware of. There may be some people coming from the Calvary Lake Stevens to support this church plant also. We are so excited to see what the Lord is going to do.



Also, please pray for direction as to how to use the building that God has given us as it is small, but perfect for an Adult Bible Study. Unfortunatly, not a lot of room for kids. But this is what God has provided, so I am sure he will work it out. Here is a picture of the building and here is the web site again if you didn't get it last time we posted. http://www.calvaryeverett.com/



Lastly, Please keep in prayer the people affected by the hurricanes. Charity has a sister in Texas and obviously children in Haiti so we have heard stories and have seen pictures first hand of the horrible damage it has done. Many people we know in Haiti had family members die and all that they have (which isn't much) was washed away.

Creative or Crazy?

Well, Kenya and Elijah have started school and they are loving it with an occational whimper of I can't do this. Over all it is going good. The curriculum we are using is very helpful to get Mom out of her box, instead of the same ol same ol. Mom is enjoying homeschooling a lot more this year as the History part is a lot of reading out loud. So we have taken our books to the lawn at the park. We get to snuggle on a blanket and read while we still have some sunny days left. We are still working out some glitches but once Mom figures out what she is supposed to be doing. I am sure things will run smoothly. Elijah and Daddy got hair cuts the other night and Elijah expressed he really wanted a mohock (one of his friend had gotten one earlier in the year) So Dad decided, what the heck, he's homeschooled, we can let him sport it for a couple of days. Now my little sweetheart is looking more like a little punk. I guess I can handle it for a couple of days. The smile just doesn't go with the hair. Here they are writing their spelling words in paint.

Tadd has been working for one of his friends doing construction and it is working out well for them both, as right when we got home from vacation, one of his full time employees went back to college. Still keeping our sites on Haiti as we try to get a couple of big issues worked out. Praying that the Lord will open doors if this is His will. We definantly don't want to be in Haiti with out Him. Please pray that He will open doors where they are closed or steer us to the one that He has opened already. Also, that we will abide in Him daily and seek His plan. Instead of trying to plan it all out on our own , before He shows us what He wants. Charity is a planner and that always makes stepping out in faith very hard. We were waiting till November to leave hoping we could stick around for Tadd's brother's Wedding but it looks like that due to some paperwork with his Fiance in Mexico they may have to push the Wedding off until December. We would really hate to miss it, so we are seeking the Lord's direction on the matter. No word on the adoption, the kids were safe through all the hurricanes. They are on higher ground, so the worst case senario was that they would not be able to get supplies as roads may get washed out. Some of the roads they use were washed out, but they were able to find alternate routes. Please pray for all of those involved in the hurricanes, as after hurricanes there is a greater risk for sickness and infections (especially in Haiti) as all of the garbage and waste has been spread. Thanks agian, Here is a 2 week old picture of our cuties that another mom took while she was there.

Obviously the one in in blue flowers right up front signing "I love you" is out sweet and sassy little girl.

The cutie with the big smile in the plaid shirt is our boy.

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We miss them so much and when we talked to them on Tuesday we learned the sentaments are returned. We are so excited to see them soon.

A Happy Family Again!

Well Tadd is home and had lots of fun. Other than missing him a whole lot, we survived with no major catastrophes. We got all of our homeschool stuff in the mail the day before he left, so that kept mom busy organizing and reading while he was gone.

Kenya and Elijah were troopers, they did lots of fun stuff together to let mommy have some time to look through homeschool stuff. Beleive it or not Kenya and Elijah are actually excited to start school next week. They were outside yesterday washing off the little desks that they use and Kenya wanted to do a whole years worth of art curriculum in one day. We are having lots of fun and feeling very blessed that we have so much time to spend together.

Kenya and Eljah showing off the sock puppets and pottery they made to surprise Daddy when he got home.