How Rich ARE you??

Some new friends of ours that will be serving in Bolivia with Food for the Hungry posted this link on their blog.  You all have to check out this website.  Type in your annual income and it will tell you how rich you are compared to the rest of the world.  It amazingly puts things into perspective and reminds us how thankful we should be for what we have!!

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

A meeting set by God!

I have been eagerly waiting to blog about this until it was official.  Now it is!  So here is the story...

In July we announced to the congregation of Hope church, our home church, our plans to serve with Food for the Hungry in Bolivia.  After the church service we met with many people who were interested in what we would be doing and just wanted to share their excitement with us.  Then, out of the corner of my eye I see this beautiful young woman anxiously waiting to speak with us.  With a huge smile on her face she excitedly begins to share her story with us.  Her name is Jenn Weber (now Jenn Weber Sinclair) and she is a Christian recording artist in Nashville, TN.  She was in Cincinnati visiting her family.  Her family does not normally attend Hope Church, but just happened to be visiting that Sunday.  Food for the Hungry has a program (The Artist Program) in which they partner with Christian artist to promote the plight of the poor around the world and connect them with ways they can help through Food for the Hungry.  So obviously Jenn is a huge advocate for Food for the Hungry and was so excited to hear that we would be working with FH as well.  After talking with Jenn for 5 minutes she immediately offered her musical talent to help us with our fundraising.  We have been working out the details and are thrilled to announce that Jenn will be doing a benefit concert for us on Sunday Oct 5th!  Our youth pastor, Brian Mease will be opening for her that evening.  

It has been a huge blessing to get to know Jenn and her music over the past two months.  We know that our meeting was not just a crazy coincidence, but an amazing blessing from the Lord!

Here are the links to her web-sites: http://www.jennweber.com/  and  http://www.myspace.com/jennweber

We highly recommend her new CD!!!

 

Last bit of Summer

We were blessed to be able to go on an end of the summer vacation with John's family to Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina.  It was a great week to spend time with family and relax on the beach.  Getting Ella and her cousin's all set up in the backseat of the van with the three carseats was quite a challange, but we came out victorious as you can see.  The girls enjoyed their "sleep-over" as we left town around 10pm and drove through the night.  

This was Ella's first time at the ocean and first experience with sand! 

 She didn't mind it as long as she had shoes on her feet!  Otherwise she refused to be put down!!  I think the feeling of sand between our toes is somewhat of an acquired luxury.  

We can't believe how quickly the summer flew by!  We are looking forward to the fall and preparing for the journey that lies ahead.  Hope you all had

 wonderful summers!