News Update

Thought I would write a short update since our last post was over 2 months ago. We have been very busy and blogging is drifting towards the bottom of priorities now.

We continue to be very involved in FamilyLife videos and Charlotte is loving the reception desk along with recruiting other staff wives to take a shifts at the reception desk. She has had the opportunity to meet many of the radio guests since Wednesdays is recording day and Wednesday is her work day.

Art of Marriage is so close to being released (January) that it is hard to believe that we have been working on this for over a year. Speaking of a year, we celebrated our 1 year anniversary of moving to Little Rock on Nov 4 and working at FamilyLife on Dec 7. Where does time go?

Thanksgiving was not as eventful as usual this year since 4 of the kids were not able to come, but we still had Hal's niece and family stay for a couple of days and Hal's parents came. Christmas on the other hand will bring everyone together except David and Sarah Beth.

I guess the other big piece of news is leaving one church for another. When we arrived in Little Rock, our intention was to visit a bunch of churches to see what was out there and after 11 different churches we settled on a church similar to our church in Tulsa. After 8 months of attending, Hal playing in the orchestra, we realized that Amy (youngest at 13) was not making any friends and Charlotte was not finding an area of ministry. Therefore, we opted to start attending a very large Bible church in Little Rock. Amy already had friends there from a Bible study she is in, and Charlotte was able to start helping in the nursery right away, which she loves. But poor Hal, no orchestra. Not really, playing trumpet is not what God wants me to do right now, so I've plugged into the TV ministry (no surprise there) and is directing the church service. The strange thing about that is that I directed church services 30 years ago at Redwood Chapel in Castro Valley, CA and never expected to do it again. Remember the saying 'it's like riding a bike', the first rehearsal I switched and directed and it was like I never left, it all came back.

Christmas is almost upon us, Hal has hand surgery on Tuesday, kids will all be here, mom and dad are coming and we have the privilege of celebrating Christ's birth. How awesome.

Hal