A Pounding!

The church here at Southaven gave us a pounding! If you were like me you had no idea what this actually meant. If you don't know it means that every one brings you at least a pound of something, kind of like a welcome here thing. I think this would work great for newly marrieds, housewarmings, etc. Anyway, we had a great turn out and were once again amazed by the generosity of the Southaven Church of Christ. It took us 2 car loads to get all of our stuff home and well unfortunately we don't have a big enough pantry for all of this stuff so there it still sits on our kitchen table, and there it will probably stay until we use all of it or make a new pantry! :)

My Little Jordan

We got to spend some time with out little nephew Jordan, as well as his parents and new little sister. Chris came down and spoke to our adults for VBS and we went to the Children's Museum of Memphis before mom, dad, and CJ went back to McMinnville. Jordan and I had a swim party, went to the zoo again, and ate doughnuts for breakfast before I had to take him back to his real home. Bobby and I just adore little Jordan, we think of him and love him as our own and it kills us not getting to see him on a daily basis. My biggest "regret" about leaving McMinnville is not getting to be there for him and not getting to know his little sister. We really miss Chris and Danyelle as well, Bobby and I both have discussed how different it has been without them right there. But, I guess that is just a part of moving and growing - blah, blah, blah :) Here are some pics of our little nephew, neice, and friends.

Summer Church Activities

Summertime is really busy at the Southaven Church of Christ. We just got back from camp a couple of weeks ago and are busy planning for our upcoming VBS. Camp was awesome, it was our first camp with the youth here and they amazed us. We had many from Southaven who won spiritual leader and camper awards and even more who led devotionals, singing , etc. including a few of our younger campers (9 year olds) who did it for the very first time. We are so proud of all our youth and their parents who continually support them and strive to be good Christian role models. The picture above is everyone at camp representing Southaven. The theme this year for camp was in remembrance of Shane Ruiz, a member of our youth group who died on a mission trip with Freed Hardeman, eaxctly 3 months before this picture was taken. He was an amazing person and his family continues to amaze me! Bobby and I only wish that we could have known him better. The red and yellow shirts are our summer shirts that we had made up in memory of Shane. The front says No Fear and the back reads: "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" Psalm 27:1. It is our hope and prayer that we as well as all of our friends can live in this manner.