Our Family may be growing, not the way you may think though. We are in the process of adopting a little girl from Ghana. She is the sister of our newly adopted cousins, Eben and Joel. If you feel led, please keep our family in your prayers for the Ghana government still needs to approve of our family size.

May God bless you and I hope you have a good day!
Joy.

"I Simply Think of my Favorite Things..."

I think that one of Hope's favorite things to do would have to involve playing the piano!

Hope LOVES to, yes, play the piano but she loves to share the talent that the Lord has given her by teaching His little children.
She is at a piano camp right now and there has been much less piano music going
on in our house this week!

She also can sing like Princess Aurora!

She is an AMAZING pianist, teacher, friend, sister and many other things!

Thank you Lord for letting Hope be one of my sisters!

Levi (my first cousin) and Brittany (his wonderful fiancee)
Have set their wedding date!!!
We are so happy for them!!
October 11th 2008!May God bless them and keep them as they start a new life together!

A Very Blessed Louisiana Mission Trip

"Smiley", our wonderful driver and comedian!

The work the Lord had ready for us to do!

It is so awesome to see everyone pitching in to get all that was needed done!
Mrs. W. wasn't about to let anyone out do her!

Hope sharpening her own pencil!

(a lil' scary!)

In these pictures it may look like all we did was play but we did get a lot of work done because of God's awesome power!!!

PRAISE GOD!!!

Me and my "big brother."

Mrs. W. taught us all how to jitterbug!!

Smiley found himself a buddy who was always willing to help do ANYTHING!!

Hope keeping her ice cream from Smiley.

As He always does, the Lord blessed us with an AWESOME Carpenters For Christ Mission Trip! It's AMAZING the energy, patience, endurance, strength and much more that He gives us!!! Knowing that God is giving you that energy at right around 3:00 when you really just wanna go take a nap then you just take a little break and you FEEL like you have taken a nap is AMAZING!!

The church there was wonderful to us, they fed us three meals a day, people from their church came and worked with us and you could just feel the love that they had for the Lord and for us who were working!! It was so awesome!!

But if you feel led, please pray for that church because the sanctuary was hit by a tornado and it still has a ways to go but Lord willing, with the help of their insurance it will be fully prepared and ready for worship in two weeks!!

Thank you for praying for us while we were gone on the mission that God had laid out for us to go and do!!

Blessings,
Joy.

Picture Perfect

"I Will Make You Lie Down In Green Pastures."