Harvest of Traditions...

Last Friday night, 84 women from Grace Covenant Church gathered for an evening of great food, wonderful fellowship and the challenge to keep Christ at the center of our traditions. The turn out was incredible (oops, ran out of cornbread!)...and the outcome was, I think, about the same.

I was so blessed to hear from our 2 speakers that evening, Linda & Susan. They both did a wonderful job of sharing their hearts for our encouragement and God's glory. Thank you for showing some Titus 2 qualities!!! We all enjoyed and appreciated it.

And I couldn't be more impressed with the people who volunteered their time, creative brains and cute stuff to make the night just that much more special. A huge thank you to my main crew...the elder's & deacon's wives of our church. You (and your families) were all a huge help and the evening would never have made it without you. And thank you's to all the people who "stopped by" to help for a even just a little while...you all know who you are and I thank you.

I am so excited to see the next phases of our ladies' gatherings. The next one is November 21st and I couldn't be more pumped.

We are using a book called "Becoming God's True Woman", formerly called "Biblical Womanhood in the Home". It is edited by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and is packed with God-centered, complementarian-rooted teaching for women in today's skewed and feminist world.

We will be discussing the first chapter on "Femininity" by Carolyn Mahaney, well-known speaker and wife of C.J. Mahaney (Covenant Life Church).

Our hope by our monthly meetings is to restore some Biblical perspective on the glorious role and high calling of womanhood and to effectively equip our women to engage the culture with the information and knowledge needed to spread the name of Christ to all people.

Anyway, just wanted to share the delightful outcome of our first GCC Noble Women event..."Harvest of Traditions". We are blessed and thankful. (sorry, no pics...coming soon!)

Will keep you posted on the following meetings and maybe even some highlights from the book!

Happy Reformation Day!

Ella's Singing Debut

A couple of weeks ago, GCC had family camp in Easton, WA. It was a wonderful, albeit rainy, time with the people of our church community. One night was "GCC's Got Talent"...and Ella had been asking to sing since she heard about it.

Here's how it went...



...followed by a standing ovation.

Proud mommy had some tears at the end. And proud brother did too because he didn't get to "play the dwums". Maybe next year Levi.

The pace of summer...

Summer is such an awesome season...

We have been blessed in recent days with warm-evening fellowship with friends, hard work in the hot sun and the refreshment of cold peach iced tea. We have also been experiencing the joy of being with family...

This time of living with Josh's parents is proving to be a precious one. Our children are logging invaluble hours with grandpa & grandma...reading stories, wrestling, hammering nails and making muffins. It has been a time of creating countless memories for our children (and grandma & grandpa) to enjoy for many years.

We know this is only for a short time and so we are enjoying the long days of summer...for we know they are going to be over too soon.

Yesterday, Levi was making up a song as we rode in the car...it went something like this:

"I love my mommy,
I love my daddy,
I love my Ella Mae,
I love my grandma,
I love my grandpa,
I love my hammer..."

He loves living with grandpa (and grandma) and his favorite thing to do is "do some work" with grandpa. Wherever grandpa is working...on the tractor, hammering nails, hanging doors...Levi is there. A little shadow, watching his every move.

It's priceless.

Thank you Dad & Mom McPherson, for having us here in your home...for loving and mentoring your grandchildren, for sharing your "space", for teaching us through your examples...
we love you and are treasuring this time together.

Ahhhhhh...sweet summer.