We had an excellent trip to Dallas and back for the Weekend to Remember. We recorded over a terabyte of footage over the 2 day event. That's a bunch of data.
Dallas was actually hotter than Little Rock over the weekend reaching temps over 100, but we were in the air conditioning most of the weekend. We just got a little wet unloading all the equipment on Thursday.
Now that we are back we will have 4 days to organize all the sessions and do some preliminary editing to prepare the video for China.
Hal
Monday, June 28, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
June is HOT
Living in Little Rock is a never ending experience. First we have an unusually cold winter, and now that we reached the first day of summer, the temperature is in the mid to upper nineties. No big deal, we hit those temperatures in Tulsa, but the big difference is humidity. It is way higher than Tulsa and there is no comparison to San Francisco Bay area where Charlotte & I grew up. I would still rather have the heat than the subzero temps of the north any day of the week.
June brought a lot of action with visitors from Tulsa, Jon surprising us with a visit yesterday (Fathers Day) and getting ready for the Weekend to Remember Getaway in Dallas and our partner trip the beginning of July. For those of our partners in Tulsa, OKC, Grand Junction, CO, Amarillo, Austin, Houston, KC, we will probably see you during this trip. This will probably be the last trip this year except for the missions conference at Tulsa Bible Church in October.
Kristi spent the entire month working, raising money for Ireland and doing a garage sale the past two Saturdays which netted her about $350 toward her trip. As I write this, she is $200 short of meeting her goal and she will be taking her spending money from her savings. Way to go Kristi. God is good all the time.
Hal
June brought a lot of action with visitors from Tulsa, Jon surprising us with a visit yesterday (Fathers Day) and getting ready for the Weekend to Remember Getaway in Dallas and our partner trip the beginning of July. For those of our partners in Tulsa, OKC, Grand Junction, CO, Amarillo, Austin, Houston, KC, we will probably see you during this trip. This will probably be the last trip this year except for the missions conference at Tulsa Bible Church in October.
Kristi spent the entire month working, raising money for Ireland and doing a garage sale the past two Saturdays which netted her about $350 toward her trip. As I write this, she is $200 short of meeting her goal and she will be taking her spending money from her savings. Way to go Kristi. God is good all the time.
Hal
Monday, May 17, 2010
Graduation 2010
Five down, one to go.
Almost seems impossible that Kristi, our fifth, born on Mothers Day is now a graduate. How time flies.
On Friday we attend our first Home School graduation with 64 graduates. It was the best graduation we have ever attended and of course we are a little bias, but we were able to give Kristi her diploma, a big hug on stage, and I had to officially release my baby to be her own person. Now the training we have put into her for 18 years, we are praying will now come out in a positive way to live for the Lord. We are so thrilled to see her already choosing correctly by putting her missions trip to Ireland this summer as #1 priority.
Now we have a five year break from the craziness of
the spring activities unless for some strange reason a wedding pops in there. We still have 4 over 18 not married, but that will probably change drastically over the next five years before Amy graduates.
What a blessing to have raised Kristi and all the wonderful memories we have of those years. God is good all the time.
Harold 'Hal'
Almost seems impossible that Kristi, our fifth, born on Mothers Day is now a graduate. How time flies.
On Friday we attend our first Home School graduation with 64 graduates. It was the best graduation we have ever attended and of course we are a little bias, but we were able to give Kristi her diploma, a big hug on stage, and I had to officially release my baby to be her own person. Now the training we have put into her for 18 years, we are praying will now come out in a positive way to live for the Lord. We are so thrilled to see her already choosing correctly by putting her missions trip to Ireland this summer as #1 priority.
Now we have a five year break from the craziness of
the spring activities unless for some strange reason a wedding pops in there. We still have 4 over 18 not married, but that will probably change drastically over the next five years before Amy graduates.What a blessing to have raised Kristi and all the wonderful memories we have of those years. God is good all the time.
Harold 'Hal'
Friday, April 23, 2010
Driving Shuttles
I guess it is only logical for someone with the last name of Driver be asked to 'drive' a shuttle bus. Today is the travel day for all of Campus Crusade New Staff (are currently raising support) to fly into Little Rock for their follow-up training. So, I'm running couples from Athletes in Action, FamilyLife, Military Ministry, and Student Venture from the airport to their training facility in the middle of God's creation. What a privilege to help in this simple but vital way.
Hal
Hal
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Spring is here
Spring in finally here in Arkansas. After a long winter we are seeing so much green it is incredible how beautiful Little Rock is. Now the chores on the outside of our new home
begin. The biggest will be moving the rock garden back and planting grass in its place. We are about half way there, but it was interesting after we removed the brick border, to find a steel edging underneath that was rusted out, but the big surprise was another tree stump. We have located 12 stumps which is more than the live trees we have.
The biggest news we have to share is picking a church to settle into. We are attending Bible Church of Little Rock which happens to be the one we initially thought we would go to, but this church is very similar to our home church, Tulsa Bible Church.
I am nearing the end of my roll in the new video conference, LOVE U, at FamilyLife. This conference will be leased to churches and organizations to show on a Friday night/Saturday instead of an entire weekend. This will not replace the Weekend to Remember, but will be an alternative to an entire weekend.
Kristi continues to prep for graduation with the Prom coming next weekend. She is also starting the support raising process for a missions trip to Ireland. It goes from the 26th of June to the end of July.
Amy is making new friends at our new church and had the opportunity to attend a youth retreat at New Life Ranch.
Charlotte is active in the Women's Connection at FamilyLife, but is anxious for school to end and finding a ministry at church to plug into. I have the orchestra (no surprise there).
Our summer ministry trip is just about nailed down. We will be visiting our partner team in TX and southern CO this year. Our west coast partners will see us in 2011 either before our training in Ft. Collins, CO or after.
We are still looking for friends to come see us in Little Rock. The guest room is always open.
Hal
begin. The biggest will be moving the rock garden back and planting grass in its place. We are about half way there, but it was interesting after we removed the brick border, to find a steel edging underneath that was rusted out, but the big surprise was another tree stump. We have located 12 stumps which is more than the live trees we have.
The biggest news we have to share is picking a church to settle into. We are attending Bible Church of Little Rock which happens to be the one we initially thought we would go to, but this church is very similar to our home church, Tulsa Bible Church.
I am nearing the end of my roll in the new video conference, LOVE U, at FamilyLife. This conference will be leased to churches and organizations to show on a Friday night/Saturday instead of an entire weekend. This will not replace the Weekend to Remember, but will be an alternative to an entire weekend.
Kristi continues to prep for graduation with the Prom coming next weekend. She is also starting the support raising process for a missions trip to Ireland. It goes from the 26th of June to the end of July.
Amy is making new friends at our new church and had the opportunity to attend a youth retreat at New Life Ranch.
Charlotte is active in the Women's Connection at FamilyLife, but is anxious for school to end and finding a ministry at church to plug into. I have the orchestra (no surprise there).
Our summer ministry trip is just about nailed down. We will be visiting our partner team in TX and southern CO this year. Our west coast partners will see us in 2011 either before our training in Ft. Collins, CO or after.
We are still looking for friends to come see us in Little Rock. The guest room is always open.
Hal
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
March Update
Wow, where to begin?
Kristi finished basketball season at the State tournament and won 80-28. Now she begins concentrated efforts on graduation in May.
Amy turned 13 (last teenager in the Driver home) on March 2nd. She was able to have a surprise party with about 5 friends she has made here in Little Rock.
Charlotte started a book study with the other 7 women who reported to FamilyLife at about the same time. It is a good time of fellowship for her. Home school still takes much of her time during the day.
Hal finished 3 shoots for the new FamilyLife video conference called 'Love U'. The most interesting was the CAVEMAN vignette, that was a hoot. Now he turns to editing all the footage we have gathered from all over the U.S. to build the complete package.
The rest of our kids continue their jobs. We will see Jon next week in Little Rock during spring break. We will connect with Joel on the 14th, David and Sarah Beth move to NC in April to begin work at a new Chick-fil-a and Katie continues to live and work in Rogers, AR.
Pray we find a church home soon. Not being connect is beginning to wear on us.
Hal
Kristi finished basketball season at the State tournament and won 80-28. Now she begins concentrated efforts on graduation in May.
Amy turned 13 (last teenager in the Driver home) on March 2nd. She was able to have a surprise party with about 5 friends she has made here in Little Rock.
Charlotte started a book study with the other 7 women who reported to FamilyLife at about the same time. It is a good time of fellowship for her. Home school still takes much of her time during the day.
Hal finished 3 shoots for the new FamilyLife video conference called 'Love U'. The most interesting was the CAVEMAN vignette, that was a hoot. Now he turns to editing all the footage we have gathered from all over the U.S. to build the complete package.
The rest of our kids continue their jobs. We will see Jon next week in Little Rock during spring break. We will connect with Joel on the 14th, David and Sarah Beth move to NC in April to begin work at a new Chick-fil-a and Katie continues to live and work in Rogers, AR.
Pray we find a church home soon. Not being connect is beginning to wear on us.
Hal
Monday, February 15, 2010
February
It looks like it is time for another post since it has been over a month. As the saying goes 'no news is good news' because things are clipping along here in Little Rock both at FamilyLife and at home. Kristi is into the tournament season for basketball, State, Regionals, then Nationals.
I have been rather busy at FamilyLife with over 30 FamilyLife Today shows edited for promos on the internet. I actually got to go on a shoot outside FamilyLife for our vCon (Video Conference) seminar we are working on. It brought back memories of the days I did that at least once a week in Tulsa.
Amy is enjoying her new friend down the street and had a blast sledding down the street on real sleds like the ones I had as a kid. (see February newsletter)
Charlotte is busy home schooling and fitting into some of the groups they have put together for new staff women. Needless to say, she has met a bunch of women from FamilyLife.
Tulsa is still not on the radar for traveling to (snow canceled our January trip), but we are trying to find a weekend before the end of March.
Pray we find a church home soon. We have at least settled on three Bible churches to pick from.
Hal
I have been rather busy at FamilyLife with over 30 FamilyLife Today shows edited for promos on the internet. I actually got to go on a shoot outside FamilyLife for our vCon (Video Conference) seminar we are working on. It brought back memories of the days I did that at least once a week in Tulsa.
Amy is enjoying her new friend down the street and had a blast sledding down the street on real sleds like the ones I had as a kid. (see February newsletter)
Charlotte is busy home schooling and fitting into some of the groups they have put together for new staff women. Needless to say, she has met a bunch of women from FamilyLife.
Tulsa is still not on the radar for traveling to (snow canceled our January trip), but we are trying to find a weekend before the end of March.
Pray we find a church home soon. We have at least settled on three Bible churches to pick from.
Hal
Friday, January 8, 2010
New Year in Little Rock
As the new year and decade begin, we are still amazed where God has put us, Little Rock, Arkansas. We were able to attend a staff meeting where Dennis Rainey and Bill Eyster (Executive VP) showed us the projects and roll outs of new and revamped resources. It was amazing what God is allowing FamilyLife to do.
We also heard the preliminary numbers for the year end Match, $2.2 million. Amazing again how God is blessing the work of FamilyLife in our 'depressed' economy. What God is behind, God will provide for.
Work is starting to ramp up with new projects and editing of old ones. I was given a task of making promotional videos from the Weekend To Remember in Dallas last year. These will be clips from various sessions about 4 min. each that will be on the web, YouTube, etc. How fun to be doing video again.
Charlotte is still trying to get a handle on a 'routine' of home school, involvement with some of the women at FamilyLife and keeping up with our partners.
Hal
We also heard the preliminary numbers for the year end Match, $2.2 million. Amazing again how God is blessing the work of FamilyLife in our 'depressed' economy. What God is behind, God will provide for.
Work is starting to ramp up with new projects and editing of old ones. I was given a task of making promotional videos from the Weekend To Remember in Dallas last year. These will be clips from various sessions about 4 min. each that will be on the web, YouTube, etc. How fun to be doing video again.
Charlotte is still trying to get a handle on a 'routine' of home school, involvement with some of the women at FamilyLife and keeping up with our partners.
Hal
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Week 2 at FamilyLife
We finished up our second week which proved to be much more productive with the completion of editing 8 FamilyLife Today programs. A 3 minute clip of each day will be posted on the web site 2 weeks before the program so people will get a flavor of what the program is about. The next 2 weeks will be a little slow because of Christmas and New Years. We are building edit suites next to our studio so we can be in the same general area all the time.
The girls continued in home school and reached their Christmas break on Friday. Charlotte continues to settle in meeting many people at FamilyLife. She was able to participate in a Ornament exchange at FamilyLife, the Christmas Party and received a home visit from 4 women at the ministry. We are seeing God orchestrate all the events to help us continue to fit in to this new phase of life God has called us to.
Hal
The girls continued in home school and reached their Christmas break on Friday. Charlotte continues to settle in meeting many people at FamilyLife. She was able to participate in a Ornament exchange at FamilyLife, the Christmas Party and received a home visit from 4 women at the ministry. We are seeing God orchestrate all the events to help us continue to fit in to this new phase of life God has called us to.
Hal
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
We began our ministry at FamilyLife
I guess it is about time for an update, much has taken place about a month early. I started work at FamilyLife on Monday and I was able to use those God given talents immediately. The first day I was able to help a co-worker with a Photoshop question, and today I will be helping another with Photoshop.
As for the video department (which is why we are at FamilyLife) I do my first shoot today and the projection is, we will save about 8 hours of editing time a week because I can use my directing skills immediately. God has put us in the right place at the right time.
Now, why am I at FamilyLife a month early? God blessed us with the completion of our support (2% from finishing) in the past few weeks. We did adjust some things, which made it possible to be this close and to minister now and our FamilyLife coaches gave us the 'go ahead' to begin work over the weekend. Thanks Tom! The first day was a little overwhelming looking at all the projects that need completion, but we will be able to knock a few out pretty quick.
Charlotte is still trying to get the house in order and do Christmas all at the same time. We still can't find a few of our Christmas lights, so another trip to the store. Many trips to Home Depot and Lowes to change a few things to our house to make it a home. I put mini binds up on the kitchen window last night, it really helped dress up the kitchen a little.
Charlotte and the girls went to Tulsa last week to see the dentist and connect the girls with some of their friends. That was good for everyone, but Amy is seeing Tulsa drift into her past.
The girls are doing great at home school, and Kristi's basketball team is really good. Their average point spread is over 50 points per game. This gives Kristi plenty of playing time, she scored 10 last night. Amy is busy cooking desserts and would do 2 or 3 a day if we let her, she did a pumpkin pie on Monday.
God has been gracious to us this past month with all the changes and getting settled in, we are in awe.
Hal
As for the video department (which is why we are at FamilyLife) I do my first shoot today and the projection is, we will save about 8 hours of editing time a week because I can use my directing skills immediately. God has put us in the right place at the right time.
Now, why am I at FamilyLife a month early? God blessed us with the completion of our support (2% from finishing) in the past few weeks. We did adjust some things, which made it possible to be this close and to minister now and our FamilyLife coaches gave us the 'go ahead' to begin work over the weekend. Thanks Tom! The first day was a little overwhelming looking at all the projects that need completion, but we will be able to knock a few out pretty quick.
Charlotte is still trying to get the house in order and do Christmas all at the same time. We still can't find a few of our Christmas lights, so another trip to the store. Many trips to Home Depot and Lowes to change a few things to our house to make it a home. I put mini binds up on the kitchen window last night, it really helped dress up the kitchen a little.
Charlotte and the girls went to Tulsa last week to see the dentist and connect the girls with some of their friends. That was good for everyone, but Amy is seeing Tulsa drift into her past.
The girls are doing great at home school, and Kristi's basketball team is really good. Their average point spread is over 50 points per game. This gives Kristi plenty of playing time, she scored 10 last night. Amy is busy cooking desserts and would do 2 or 3 a day if we let her, she did a pumpkin pie on Monday.
God has been gracious to us this past month with all the changes and getting settled in, we are in awe.
Hal
Sunday, November 15, 2009
November News
The November newsletter is available on the left panel. It has been such an exciting month to see how God is confirming over and over our call to minister at FamilyLife.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Thankful
Hal is back in Tulsa to finish the last 8% of our monthly support. We have so much to be thankful for this month, from the 7% new monthly support, to our move to Little Rock, that Charlotte and the girls could remain in Little Rock to get settled in, and for all the prayer behind our transition into full time ministry.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Made it to Little Rock
We had a quick closing in Tulsa, finished loading the trucks and hit the road at 12:15p. We arrived in Little Rock about 4:45p and met two of our neighbors. Kristi checked in at DSW shoes, which is where she worked in Tulsa and she was able to transfer to the Little Rock store. After that we picked up the washer and dryer and met a potential ministry partner. Had dinner with the Murray's and made it to bed by 10. Now the big part comes today, empty the truck.
Our Tulsa friends, Forrest & Nina Cowan, that came with us were such a help leaving and getting to Little Rock. Poor Forrest, he drove the truck and was beat by the time we arrived. He said he has never used side mirrors so much and been so tense when driving. I can understand that since this was a 24' truck with a 13' 1" clearance. Thanks Forrest.
We have some friends coming from FamilyLife to help unload, and my new coworker came down with the flu and can't help. (just trying to get out of unloading :-) ) More tomorrow . . .
Hal
Our Tulsa friends, Forrest & Nina Cowan, that came with us were such a help leaving and getting to Little Rock. Poor Forrest, he drove the truck and was beat by the time we arrived. He said he has never used side mirrors so much and been so tense when driving. I can understand that since this was a 24' truck with a 13' 1" clearance. Thanks Forrest.
We have some friends coming from FamilyLife to help unload, and my new coworker came down with the flu and can't help. (just trying to get out of unloading :-) ) More tomorrow . . .
Hal
Monday, November 2, 2009
Leaving for Little Rock
We close on our Broken Arrow home this morning and drive to Little Rock (4 hrs.) to move into our new (to us, 1971) home tomorrow. The Lord provided the needed percentage of support from a dear friend from our California days so Charlotte and the girls can officially remain in Little Rock while Hal finishes connecting with the remaining 8% of needed partners in Tulsa over the next month.
If you have a second, check out Ex 15:11, our God is GREAT!
Hal
If you have a second, check out Ex 15:11, our God is GREAT!
Hal
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Little Rock, Here we come!
Much has happened since our last entry. We have reached 87% of our financial support with only 13% left. The moving truck and all of the preparation that led up to it was completed yesterday with the help of many friends and some of 20+ age group men to move the piano.
We head for Little Rock in the morning to begin a new chapter in our lives. We are so thankful for everyone who was praying for us this past week as we had some challenges to overcome, which the Lord provided in His timing. We learned once again to patiently wait on the Lord.
Please pray with us for 2 good home closings and a safe trip.
We head for Little Rock in the morning to begin a new chapter in our lives. We are so thankful for everyone who was praying for us this past week as we had some challenges to overcome, which the Lord provided in His timing. We learned once again to patiently wait on the Lord.
Please pray with us for 2 good home closings and a safe trip.
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