Our family was so blessed this weekend. We traveled to Ellensburg on Thursday and on the way down noticed Kenya was starting a fever. We debated about wether we should just turn around and leave Charity and the kids at home, since with Kenya sick, they would just be spending the whole weekend in the condo we were staying at. We decided against turning around because of time limitations and pressed on to the condo. Charity had been sick a week or two ago and it started the same way as Kenya's fever did, so we figured Kenya was in for the same week long illness. Charity was pretty bummed she would miss Tadd's teaching Thursday night and then the Potluck scheduled for friday night, then all this to just turn around and head back without meeting anyone down there. Needless to say we did lots of praying and when Tadd told people in Ellensburg that Kenya was sick, they prayed too. By 9:00 that night, her fever was gone and Kenya was running around the condo playing "doggy" with Elijah. (proof God is Good #1).
Friday we spent the day in Ellensburg with our friends Tonia and Trenton looking around the town and catching up. Then friday night we went to Paul and Suzie's house for a Potluck with some people from the church. We got ther at 6:00 and didn't leave till 10:30 feeling like we had just spent the evening with people we had been friends with forever. (God is Good #2).
We drove home and spent Saturday unpacking and getting ready for Sunday Children's Ministry at Calvary Everett. Sunday morning we drove to Everett and had a wonderful AM service with the kids, followed by the PM service at 6:00. Pastor Ken was out of town and had asked Tadd and our friend Nick (who is in ministry there also) to give their testimonies. Tadd shared about how he came to have a relationship with the Lord, and then he shared a little about our adoption journey. I was back in children's ministry, when a mom came back and said, "I am so sorry you have been through so much with your adoption, we are also adopting from Haiti". She went on to tell me about their amazing adoption story, it was so encouraging to hear that someone has gone through the same things we have and how the Lord has been so faithful to them also. (God is Good #3) Please pray for them also, their names are Chris and Kirsten Brady and they have been in the adoption process for a year and a half. Adopting 3, 3 year olds!!!
Thier blog is fireballbrady.blogspot.com if you wanna check out their adoption journey.
The Lord continually amazes us with how he specifically puts people in our path to encourage and love on us. He has blessed us this weekend with so many new friends that we have so much in common with. It is hard to understand how you can meet people with so many of the same experiences and know that it could only be God, bringing you together to encourage one another. Even though He does not have to give us those people, He loves us so much, He know it will bring joy to our heart to share with others and so miraclously, he brings your paths together. Thank you Lord for knowing what our hearts need and blessing us, by meeting those needs.
Here are couple of random pictures of Elijah in his new Gymnastics class, which he loves. Yes that is Elijah trying to get out of the foam cubes pit.
Also a couple, of the kids shooting hoops and playing soccer with Dad.
2 comments:
Wow...God IS good! What an awesome weekend. Right when you think "of course Kenya would get sick" you kicked in with "but God is bigger and let's just see what God will do." I love it. Glad to hear it was so easy to get to know the Ellensburg church and that you had such a great time with Tanya & Trenton. I will definitely check out the couple that are adopting the 3 wee ones from Haiti.
(Hadassah & Caleb just came in...they are dogs, too.) Tell my babies to stop growing already...that's my only request from you!!!
God is Good! I keep telling them not to grow up, but they just won't listen.
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