Exciting Growth

We are excited with the happenings here in Mt. Home! Here are some of things that have happened in the past few weeks.

Our head enlisted man at the chapel (NCOIC) Joe Hall retired from the military.

 

Joe’s old boss, Chaplain Toney came out here to officiate. Chaplain Barfield who also used to work here came from the Academy. Pictured (above) with Ed is Ch. Barfield and Ch. Forsythe. Pictured (below) is Ch. Toney’s dear wife, Pam and Sgt. Hall (the retiree). We will miss Joe very much!

Friday nights at our house have been exciting and crowded! We have a pretty fun group.

We are going through Focus on the Family’s “That the World May Know”. Thank you for your prayers for this ministry.

The young adult ministry on base (Velocity) is also going very well.  So many of our people have experienced extreme life change.

Velocity experienced it’s one year anniversary.

The next week at Velocity, our own John Srihavong decided to re enlist during our program. We love John and were thrilled to be included in this. He will be leaving us in March for Korea.

John shared a bit of his testimony afterwards. He came from a Buddhist background. He has really grown a lot since coming to Mt. Home.

In this picture, you can see me behind the computer. I have been in charge of running the song slides.

 

Ed and I think this is the “funnest” and deepest group we have ever been involved with. We participate in deep things and some fun things too.

Thirty two of us went up in three vans to Bogus Basin to go skiing. What fun we had!

As you can see by Anna’s hair (above), it was VERY cold outside.

 

We warmed up in the lodge, which was extremely crowded. Mike is trying to reason with Nicholas.

We went to Chili’s after skiing. Our group was so friendly and “jocular” that everyone in the restaurant knew we were there.

At the end, some in our group had a “group hug”. Two strangers joined them!

Ministering to the military is such a privilege. We are grateful to God for this honor.

Christmas Week & New Year’s Eve 2009

We were blessed to experience a Page family tradition on Christmas Eve. As a child, those of us in the Page family would spend Christmas Eve together, eat Oyster Stew and open gifts. Ed and I joined Aunt Myrna and Uncle Drexell, Aunt Jan and Uncle Duane, my grandma and my cousin Natalie. What a blessing.

We drove home (90 minute drive) that evening and had half a dozen guys already at our house eating and getting ready to play games. Three of them spent the night.

Christmas day we had 25 people here with us. One of the relatives of one of our dear airmen, called me to thank us for investing our lives in him. She was choking up and so was I. What a privilege it is to serve these airmen. So many of our airmen have had their lives profoundly changed by Christ in the past year.

I was very pleased to have this double warmer that we found at Ross.

We played game after dinner and we also had a white elephant gift exchange. What fun we had.

Dan got a lovely jewelry case that he modeled for us.

In the above picture, Vance and Ed provided a fanny protection pad system for Chaplain Anderson after a slippery event outside of Vance’s house.

Julie is now 32 weeks along. Here is the most recent pregnancy picture I have of her.

New Year’s Eve here was spent at the Airmen’s Center (The Zone) and then onto the chapel for a concert of prayer. Regrettably, I only took a few lousy pictures. Some of our guys were performing death defying stunts around 1:00 AM.

Christmas week was a very sad week with one of our families here. Dolly delivered her baby, Vince, prematurely and he died. Her husband, Greg had to come back from a deployment. The memorial service was today (New Year’s Day). Ed and I attended and God was glorified as Chaplain Anderson preached. Dolly was shaking when I hugged her.

So, a very sad way to start a new year…

God bless all of you this 2010.