This weekend we celebrated the nineteen year anniversary of her departure from this world and her beckoning into the next.  And what a way to remember and rejoice in her life, but with the newness of her eleventh grandchild and her widowed husband bustling about, helping care for seven of them, just the […]

Hello Little One! My, there’s a story behind your very existence. A family faith walk, a season of defeat and despair, a season of closing ourselves off to the possibility of…you, and then a sweet season of your Creator gently whispering to us and wooing us back into trusting Him with our family size and […]

*Note* This post was composed a good 3 weeks ago, and is just now being made public.  There is no shame in this, for I have declared that this year would be a year of receiving whatever opportunities for blogging that come my way, rather than trying to force them.  Cheers to every delinquent blogger, […]

  Commissioned to go “plant a church”…. Sent out to go “help” an impoverished, underresourced community…. Called to serve in a place that most would not choose… What does “plant a church” even mean? What are the measurable results to “show” for your work? How do  you know if you are even making a difference? […]

“A discerning man keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.” Prov. 17:24 ~~~~ They got a little more than they bargained for when they put the sign out.   “Kids Eat Free Monday Nights”   One of the few local restaurants in the Lexington area, where we […]

It had been a frazzling day. (Come to think of it, every day is a frazzling one with six kids). That Sunday we had ushered those six kids out the door early in the morning to attend worship at our “sending church”. We had scooted downtown to attend an event at the sight of the […]

This kid LOVES babies.       This kid, who, for the three months leading up to Judah’s arrival, did everything he could to help ease my life because it finally registered in his mind that out of Mommy’s misery, a wee little babe would emerge. And he was excited! He cleared out his own […]