Random Videos

Here are some random videos from the past few weeks...we should have some more exciting ones soon as we have some fun stuff planned for this Labor Day weekend. Vote for your favorite...

Magician in Training

Bus Trip

Cheer

Cooking Show

Our Girls

Some Observations

Well, it's been a while since my last post...we have been very busy working or spending time with family and friends on our days off. Currently we are having a great time with a house full of 5th grade girls. Now that we've had a chance to spend time with both 5th grade girls and 8th grade girls, here are the top 10 observations that I've found between the two:

1) 5th grade girls love to color...8th grade girls would be like totally embarrassed to be seen with crayons

2) 5th grade girls beg to go outside...8th grade girls beg to go inside

3) 5th grade girls think we are the coolest people in the world...8th grade girls think we're geeks

4) 5th grade girls love to play with their Ken dolls...8th grade girls love to debate whether or not Ken is "hot"

5) 5th grade girls if told to wake up at 7:00 will beg to get up at 6:00...8th grade girls if told to get up at 7:00 would beg to get up at noon.

6) 5th grade girls love to talk to us forever and go on and on and on...8th grade girls avoid talking to us at all cost.

7) 5th grade girls fight with each other about who gets to sit next to us and as close as possible...8th grade girls fight with each other about who gets to sit as far away from us as possible.

8) 5th grade girls laugh at our jokes like we are professional comedians...8th grade girls find our jokes completely lame.

9) 5th grade girls are always wanting hugs from us...8th grade girls wouldn't accept one if they needed the Heimlich maneuver.

10) 5th grade girls eat more than a horse...8th grade girls, well, they do too.

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THAT ABOUT SUMS IT UP!!!

DEVOTIONS

One of my favorite parts of the job is doing devotions every day. Currently we are reading through the book of Esther and playing a version of "Where's Waldo" ---but instead playing "Where's God". Esther is the only book in the Bible that never mentions the name of God or even uses a pronoun to refer to Him...but as you read through the story of Esther, you see God working in the background throughout the entire story (and the girls try and identify places they see God at work).

A few weeks ago Jen and I broke the girls up into small groups for our own "church service" since chapel was canceled due to the flu outbreak. We had great discussions in our groups for well over an hour...and one girl in my group accepted Christ as her Savior! Today we had another great "God Moment" as we read about Esther and her willingness to lay everything (including her life) on the line...and looked for where God was working in that moment. That sparked a very long (over an hour) conversation about God and the role He plays in our lives today. Some of the questions they asked and we discussed were (you can see some are more serious than others hahaha):

1) How do we get to heaven?

2) What is heaven like?

3) Is there a hell?

4) My mom is a Jehovah's Witness and my grandpa is Baptist...who should I be going to church with?

5) My uncle died from an accidental drug overdose...is it possible he is in heaven?

6) What will happen to my mentally challenge cousin when she dies?

7) Where Adam and Eve black or white?

8) Are there animals in heaven?

9) What will my body be like in heaven?

10) What are angels?

11) How do you know the Bible is true?

12) Do you struggle with sin too?

13) Why would God let so many bad things happen to my family?

14) Why is it so hard to be like Jesus?

There were several others we discussed as well, but as you can see God is working on the hearts and minds of these young girls and Jen and I love to be used by Him in the process! We had a great discussion and look forward to where it will take us as we continue to discover "Where's God" in the midst of the only Biblical book that doesn't mention Him by name.

Playing Golf With Your Wife

Bill was playing golf one afternoon with his wife, Emma, and hit a nasty slice off the second tee – landing in an impossible lie in front of the greenkeeper’s shed. Being helpful, his wife suggested, “No need to take a penalty shot darling, just open both the front and back doors and push the tractor out. Then, you’ll can hit hit it straight through the shed with a 3 iron.”

“Brilliant idea darling!” and with that, Bill took a mighty whack at the ball, which struck the rear of the building – bouncing off and hitting his wife in the head, killing her stone dead.

A few years later, Bill was playing the same hole with his new wife… and by sheer coincidence landed at the exact same place in front of the shed. “No need to take a penalty shot,” said his new wife, “we can push the tractor out and open both sets of doors. You can hit straight through the shed!”

“No way,” he said. “Last time I tried that I ended up with a triple bogey!”