Pics of the kids

From Spring '09

Don't you love being a parent?! Whenever your child does anything interesting...you think it's extrodenary! Ok, well this isn't "extraordinary" but it was one of Micah's masterpieces. He claim's it is "Louis" from "Meet the Robinsons"

From Drop Box

Can you see the resembelance? :-)

Ok, I am having trouble giving up my other blog & I may just keep two going. But if you want to see pictures of the kids & see how they're doing please check out our other blog - http://micahsmischeif.blogspot.com/

I have recently posted some fun pictures of the kids & our trip to FL.

February Update

Ok...so I'm trying to get Ryan his own account so he can update the blog himself, but at times the cyber world confuses me. So until the fog clears...I become the messanger...I hope you enjoy - Erin

I’ve gotten some positive feed back from my last posting so I thought I might add another. So here goes round two of postings from the dark side...



Recent travel took us to Florida to take some much needed R&R after a very busy season in our lives (Abby being added to the family and all of the various promotional activities and travel associated with the publishing of this year’s TMI brochure). After a week of vacation and checking in with family that live in the area we found ourselves out in Merritt Island, FL the home and headquarters of Teen Missions (TMI). Working and performing promotional activities for TMI on the West Coast over the past 5 years has been very exciting. However, being on the opposite side of the continent from the vast majority of TMI staff can often leave us feeling a little disconnected with the ministry which we care so much about. In order to remedy this Erin and I have deliberately taken trips every year to “check-in” with the TMI and give a report on what the Lord is doing.

During this check-in I learned something very valuable. Here’s what I learned: Don’t ever sell God short! We went to Florida hoping to have a time of relaxation and refreshment and giving a quick update on what God was doing on the West Coast; instead God blessed our socks off by taking our limited vision and making it so much broader. In our conversations with the director (Bob Bland) we were hoping to just continue to have his blessing on the promotional activities we have initiated over the past few years and to pursue some alternate ideas we’d come up with. Instead the director not only encouraged us to pursue these activities but wanted us to take them to whole new level. He asked us to look for a place in California where TMI could establish a base of operations where not only promotional and recruitment activities could continue to be expanded but additional TMI activities too! We’d never dreamed this big before!

Please pray for us as we seek to pursue this vision. Pray that in God’s timing we will find the right location where we can establish a base of operations and that God will introduce us to the right people who will support us in this endeavor.

A final thought: I find myself reflecting on what God’s vision looks like and how it is passed on to others. With this in mind I read a familiar passage in the book of Philippians recently and found myself looking at it through a little bit different filter. I’ve always thought when Paul tells us about how big and how wide the love of God is that he was trying to show us that there is truly no way we can ever escape God’s love. However I think it’s not necessarily a matter of trying to avoid the unavoidable; rather its being so consumed by the unavoidable that we can’t help but share it with everyone we come in contact with.

In Him - Ryan