Two posts in one month! Are you all shocked? I hope to be back on track with updating this more often, keeping you better apprised as to what is happening in our lives.
So with that...
We are visiting and speaking at several different churches in our area over the next few months. We have our missions conference at our home church Sept. 25-27. I will be speaking at the Ladies Brunch. Please pray for clarity and what I say will be used for His glory. We have another missions conference the weekend of Oct 17 and 18 at Raymond Baptist Church. We are so excited to share with them what it is that God has called us to do!
In November we are going to New Holland, PA for AMG's annual conference! We are looking forward to that weekend, and what God has in store for us while we are there. I am sure that after we get home, I will update about our time there. So, keep checking!
In December...Phil and I have decided to take Megan on the Bundles of Love trip. She has not been to Guatemala yet and we feel that it would be really good for her to see where we will be living before we pack up our family and head there. Please be in prayer for this trip. We are so excited that we are able to go and be with some of the people God has called us to serve!
travels!
changes...
We have had quite a summer here in NH. Lots going on family vacations, Vacations Bible School's, missions trips, and so much more. I am not sure how we fit so much into our summer but we did it all! Our summer came to an early end when the children all started school. We decided after much prayer that it was in their best interest to be back in school. We have moved and been so up in the air about things that originally thought home schooling was best for them, and after 2 years we thought it best to enroll them again. We are in a new town which also means a new school! They were used to being all together at school, where they were attending previously was at a small private school that was K-12 and they saw each other during the day, now they are in 3 different schools Anna and Cabot are in the elementary, Megan is in the middle school all by herself, Betsy and Abby are at the high school together. Abby is doing 3 classes at the HS and then home schooling for the rest. Megan is having a hard time adjusting to school. She would really like to be home schooled again, she is all by herself, in middle school. Please pray for her when you think of her. She is playing soccer for the school and very excited about that! Betsy is playing volley ball for her school. They have jumped right in and are trying to get involved with different things in school. Here are a few pictures of the first day of school! oh, and not to be left out. Claire will start kindergarten on Sept. 8 at Jiminy Cricket Kindergarten! she is the last one of our kids to be going there! I can't believe that our time in kindergarten is almost over. 
VBS Son Rock Kids Camp
We had an absolutely wonderful time this past week doing VBS at River of Life Church. The kids were so thrilled to be learning and eager to here about what was being taught!
We did the missions room with them. We taught some songs to the younger kids,(kindergarten and pre-k) teaching them "Be a Missionary" and also simple spanish words, they came into the room saying hola and left saying adios! The older kids we went a little deeper with each class, we watched some missions videos and just had fun with them. Showing them that it really isn't that hard for anyone to be a missionary, you are one everywhere you go!!
The older kids are up in Portland with a group of teens from our home church this week. They are doing Back Yard Bible Clubs all this week! From what I have heard (and not from my own kids) is that they are having a great time. The Word is getting out and being shared. They have 6 different clubs that are meeting during the day. They have gone to a few "tourist" places and are going to a Root Cellar which is a food pantry and they will be helping pass out food. I am so looking forward to seeing how God uses this time in the lives of all the teens that are in ME, and also for the ones that are being taught. I know that they will all learn so much from one another.
Please continue to pray for us as we are seeking out the people that God has called to be our ministry partners. We are having a great time meeting new people and sharing with them what it is that God has called us to do. Each time we share what it is that we are doing, it makes our hearts long even more to be there!
Thank you all for taking the time to read this and to see where we are and what we are doing!
