Oh the places you'll go!

Oh, the places you'll go! 

This is Elliott's first day of Kindergarten and the first day to ride the bus!

Now, he's off to college!

Chores! Every kid needs chores!

Now there's only 1 to do the chores. Big brother is off to college.

"Why can't I just enjoy my childhood." - Max 

Remi Loves Elliott

YEP!  I'm not the only one that will miss Elliott!

Building for Change Program 2018

Elliott travels to BELIZE with Hand in Hand to build a house!

Taylor 
Maddie
Corey - Youth Minister
Grace
Elliott

Spring Break 2018 San Fran

LOMBARD STREET

LOMBARD STREET

Painted Ladies

Painted Ladies

Palace of Fine Arts

Fishermans Wharf

The CABLE CARS

Public Transportation

San Francisco Bridge

Alcatraz

Ghirardelli

THE LIME BIKES - A Favorite

Alcatraz

AT&T PARK!  Go GIANTS!

GO GIANTS!

Santa Cruz!

Big Sur!

CHINA TOWN

2018 BIG YEAR

 2018 BIG YEAR
"Be Still My Heart"


DuPont Manual's Senior Prom with Isabella Charles

Meyzeek wins District Championship

Started and played center-mid
Played Keeper his 6th / 7th grade years

Max is promoted to High School
Attending Ballard High School
Graduated with Academic Excellence - All As

Elliott graduates from DuPont Manual High School

Valedictorian
Attending University of Cincinnati
Studying Biomedical Engineering







2018 - Last day of middle school and last day of high school...

Max is losing his chauffeur!

We all pull in close.

I grew up in a very small town of 900 people. Every Sunday my family attended Concord Missionary Baptist Church in White Plains, Kentucky. It wasn't just my brother and parents who attended but my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins attended as well. My father, after passing away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 33, is buried on those church grounds.

Every Sunday afternoon my friends would come home with me after church and we would play on the farm. The whole church was really my family. The morning after my dad passed, Brother Carl Boyd (the pastor) was at my bedside to comfort me and my brother, Travis. Our house was filled with church people and one of those church people sent my brother, my mom and I on a trip to Disney after my dad passed. Sitting through prayer meetings every Wednesday night was sometimes torture but God used those prayer meetings to shape who I am today. The Spirit of the Lord was there. The Spirit of the Lord lived among the people. After all, the church will always be the people - not a building.

The horrific news out of Sutherland Texas has not left my mind. I believe it's because I see myself in that story. I haven't stopped praying for that church. This could have been my family. There were families holding hands with their heads bowed in prayer when a stream of bullets hit their backs. Young and old were worshipping a loving God when evil walked into the room. In times of tragedy, the church in White Plains, Kentucky taught me that in suffering we all pull in close! We hold each other so the darkness doesn't hold us.

Ann Voskamp says, "You can count on it. Aloneness widens suffering but togetherness weakens suffering."

Lord, be close to the people of Sutherland Texas!