Europe and Beyond

The "Beyond" part of the title stands for South Africa. Michael, Jayden (our 3-year-old) and my (Golden's) parents will be going to South Africa from October 8-18. We will be leading worship at the Missions/Pastors Conference in Capetown. We're really looking forward to this trip. For more on this trip and how it happened that we're going, which is a really interesting and fun God story, please go to this link. www.togetherministries.com/missionltrs/southafrica.html

Here we are (Michael, Golden and our daughter, Avalon) leading worship at Creation Fest in England for the children's ministry. Avalon lead all the hand motions while Mommy and Daddy did most of the singing. During the week long event we saw about 200 kids a day come through the children's ministry tent. It was awesome to have the opportunity to share Christ and hang out with all of them. There were 9 kids who made decisions for Christ which is really exciting because Europe is a hard place to reach.

We just had to do this; get our picture on Abbey Road. There's this street cam above us that broadcasts to the internet. So I called my Dad in MO at 4am his time and woke him up so he could log into abbeyroad.com and watch the 3 of us do all our antics back and forth across Abbey Road. I was inspired so I rewrote the lyrics to the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" to "Here Comes the SON."

Chorus:

Here comes the SON, doo doo doo doo

Here comes the SON, and I say, "Be Ready"

Verse 1:

Little children, in the twinkling of an eye He's coming

Little children, on a white horse Jesus will return (chorus)

Verse 2:

Little children, let's see those smiles on your faces

Little children, He's the reason we are singing here (chorus)

Verse 3:

Little children, can you see the moving of God's Spirit

Little children, the Word of God has made it clear (chorus)

Bridge:

Son, God's Son, Here he comes (4x)

Next, we headed off to the Calvary Chapel Castle in Milstat, Austria for the Calvary Chapel Missions Conference.

Here's a picture looking out the window of the main conference room. The scenery in Austria is breathtaking.

Our primary function at the Missions Conference was to serve the people attending. I worked full time in the children's ministry 0-3 year olds.

Michael worked with the grounds crew but often got pulled in to help with the children's minsitry.

Avalon attended the conference with the other children. She's made friends from all over the world. What an awesome opportunity for her.

What really made this trip special was that we got to serve with our little girl. We're hoping to be able to serve with our whole family with next year.

Please keep us in prayer and may God richly bless you like only He can do!

In His Grip,

Michael, Golden, Avalon, Micah, Zachary and Jayden