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  • August27th

    Evelyn’s Gotcha Slideshow

    Author: Mary Beth | Posted in: Adoption, Featured, Travel

    Here are some of our pictures from our trip. We still plan on writing more very soon, hopefully next week.

    Special thanks to Zach Cheatham for the airport pictures.

  • August4th

    Josiah’s Gotcha Slideshow

    Author: Mary Beth | Posted in: Adoption, Featured

    I can’t believe we get to do this again. Even though this is our second adoption, it’s still frightening, as I assume it would be the third, fourth, or fifth time. It’s always scary to step out in faith into the unknown. But what we DO know is that God is, has been, and will always be faithful to us. We can’t wait to see what He has in store for us in Ethiopia. We appreciate your prayers.

    Thank you to all of you who have helped us in so many ways. You have prayed for us and prayed for us and prayed for us, when we asked you to, and even when we didn’t ask. You have been supportive and encouraging, even when you thought we were a little crazy. And you have helped us raise the money we needed to get to this point. You bought t-shirts, baked cakes, gave guitar lessons, served dinners, and donated time at your vacation homes. Some of you completely blindsided us with checks in the mail for LARGE amounts of money. You have given of yourselves, lovingly and sacrificially. We know that God has been honored because of your generosity. Thank you for helping us, and thank you for surrounding our little girl with love, even before she gets here.

    We wish you could all go with us. We will be thinking of you every step of the way.

    Here is the slideshow from Josiah’s adoption last summer:

  • July20th

    Our Family Mission

    Author: Casey | Posted in: Featured, Home Life & Family, Spiritual

    mission_statementMary Beth and I sat down last night to design our Family Mission Statement together. It took us a while to come up with an idea, but Mary Beth was the one who decided to use verbs to define how we wanted our family to be. We both sat at the computer for a little over an hour while I put some graphics together. It really was a 100% team effort!

    I co-taught a class at church last fall based on the book by Stephen Covey, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families.” After the class was over, Mary Beth and I fully intended to write our Family Mission Statement together, but we never got around to it. So, we finally decided to “Put first things first” and come up with something.

    I hope this will be something that we can hang on our wall and live by for years to come. I hope our great-grandchildren will look at this someday and be inspired by the mission that we have chosen to live by. I pray that it will truly be a blessing for our family!

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