My brother Caleb turned 18 on August 27th, and since he's graduating next spring we took his graduation photos last week. AND he started his own blog recently, so go check it out and become a follower!!! :-) http://ckstuntman.blogspot.com/ He wants to be a stuntman in Christian films, and he was the stunt coordinator for Excelsior. He did a GREAT job!! :-)
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
A Day of Action
This is from and article on the Samaratin's Purse website
Today is Blog Action Day. Since 2007, Blog Action Day has focused bloggers around the world to cover one important global topic on the same day. Past topics have included water, climate change, and poverty.
This year, Blog Action Day coincides with World Food Day, so the theme for 2011 is food.
Samaritan’s Purse has been providing food and other aid to thousands of refugees escaping from the ongoing fighting in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan. More than 5,000 people have sought refuge in North Unity State in South Sudan.
When Samaritan’s Purse staff heard reports of thousands of refugees from the Nuba Mountains stranded without food, water, or shelter, they immediately responded.
“What we found was even worse than we expected,” team leader David Phillips said. “These poor people were on the edge of death.”
In August, there was no way to transport the large amounts of food they needed by land, so we used our Kenya-based DC-3 to airdrop 19 metric tons of food to the area.
Watch the video of the airdrop here:
Since August, we have distributed over 12,000 metric tons of food provided by the World Food Program (WFP), along with plastic tarps and other supplies. We coordinated closely with the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) for this response. More recently, our team constructed an airstrip in South Sudan for more efficient future shipments of food and supplies.
“Please tell everyone to pray for us,” Matthias, a Sudanese refugee, requested. “We need the world to remember us. The only thing we want is to survive and to live in peace.”
Today, on World Food Day, please join us in prayer as we continue to provide food, temporary shelter, and other desperately needed items for more than 10,000 vulnerable people in South Sudan, and thousands more around the world. All of the aid is showing that God loves the refugees, and is a strong tower for those who turn to Him.
You can take action and raise awareness by sharing stories like this one with your social networks, by donating to Samaritan's Purse projects in South Sudan, and most importantly, by praying for those people experiencing food insecurity throughout the world.
This year, Blog Action Day coincides with World Food Day, so the theme for 2011 is food.
Samaritan’s Purse has been providing food and other aid to thousands of refugees escaping from the ongoing fighting in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan. More than 5,000 people have sought refuge in North Unity State in South Sudan.
When Samaritan’s Purse staff heard reports of thousands of refugees from the Nuba Mountains stranded without food, water, or shelter, they immediately responded.
“What we found was even worse than we expected,” team leader David Phillips said. “These poor people were on the edge of death.”
In August, there was no way to transport the large amounts of food they needed by land, so we used our Kenya-based DC-3 to airdrop 19 metric tons of food to the area.
Watch the video of the airdrop here:
Since August, we have distributed over 12,000 metric tons of food provided by the World Food Program (WFP), along with plastic tarps and other supplies. We coordinated closely with the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) for this response. More recently, our team constructed an airstrip in South Sudan for more efficient future shipments of food and supplies.
“Please tell everyone to pray for us,” Matthias, a Sudanese refugee, requested. “We need the world to remember us. The only thing we want is to survive and to live in peace.”
Today, on World Food Day, please join us in prayer as we continue to provide food, temporary shelter, and other desperately needed items for more than 10,000 vulnerable people in South Sudan, and thousands more around the world. All of the aid is showing that God loves the refugees, and is a strong tower for those who turn to Him.
You can take action and raise awareness by sharing stories like this one with your social networks, by donating to Samaritan's Purse projects in South Sudan, and most importantly, by praying for those people experiencing food insecurity throughout the world.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
South Dakota Trip 2011
Since I took way too many pictures to post here, I decided to put a bunch up on Picasa web albums! So check out this link to see some photos of the BEAUTIFUL Badlands and Black Hills, of Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, and more! We started out the trip at a family camp, then went on down to SD. We camped most of the time, and we were so thankful to the Lord that the weather could NOT have been better! It was gorgeous! :-) Here's a small sampling of the pictures . . . enjoy!
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
COURAGEOUS!
Courageous was AMAZING!! If you haven't seen it yet, go see it!! Even if you have seen it, go again! ;-) I can't give a review on it until I've seen it at least twice, though, so for now, here's a picture of Lydia and I with our cousin Lauren (from the Twin Cities). ;-) We had a great time together! More updates coming soon!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
EXCELSIOR GIVEAWAY!!
CHECK OUT THE GIVEAWAY ON THE EXCELSIOR BLOG!!! There you'll find all the details on how to enter and how to buy your own copy of Excelsior: Ever Higher! And if you're not yet, we'd love to have you become a follower of our Excelsior blog!! :-)
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