Life in the Big Potato

This is a reminder of last year's most awesome fireworks show. It is happening again tonight, but we're not going.

She checks put our hotel.

We arrived in Seattle yesterday. Driving in we saw some quinticential Pacific NW scenes.

This weekend the Magees and we are going to a missionary conference hosted by NAMB in Seattle. It is an all-expense paid trip, so we are looking forward to some down time and hopefully some productive time hearing from NAMB. Plus we haven't been to Seattle. Two people who have been attending NorthStar for a while now have decided to be baptized. The couple both come from a different faith background and want to set the record straight between them and God, so to speak. They will be making a public profession of their faith. If the weather is warm enough well do it in the lake! That will be a first for me. Another first for me was praying a blessing over a set of shears. A lady in our church has gone through some very trying times. She has just recently finished cosmetology school and celebrated this achievement by buying a nice pair of scissors for her new career. She felt so strongly about this symbol of a new page in her story that she asked me to pray over the shears f...

They are making a movie about Billy Graham. Billy: The Early Years is set to come out in October. I wonder what it will be like. It is a limited release by Rocky Mountain Pictures. I don't really know what that means, but I hope its really cool. I would definitely pay to see it. Also, if you have CNN watch tonight to see Larry King interviewing Steven Curtis Chapman. Also Steven and his family were featured on Good Morning America .

If you are a blog junkie like me, I'd like to recomend Between The Times. It originates with some of the people from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and tends to focus on what people are calling the "Great Commission Resurgence." You may want to read Answering the Call to a Great Commission Resurgence , Jun 10th, 2008 by dannyakin before you read anything else on the blog. Here's a taste: Wedding a healthy, well-informed and robust theology to a consuming passion for the evangelization of the nations, we must come together, as never before, to carry out the final command given by King Jesus. We may not agree on everything, but we agree on more than enough to work together for our Lord Jesus in fulfilling the Great Commission. So, will we live or will we die? Will we come together for life or fracture apart in death? I make my choice for life. It is my hope and my prayer that you will join me.

here are some pics from art on the green this weekend. we took l out for some fresh air, fun, and cda artwork. she loved being carried around by her daddy in her carrier. all of our family have come and gone and we were sooo thankful for their visits. i don't know how we would have made it without their help. so for now we will work on our skype webcam skills so they can watch this precious one grow.