Happy Birthday Mark! We tried to make sure Mark enjoyed his birthday all day on the 5th...from early in the morning with his present from his parents to after dinner, when he got his cheesecake. I love you!

Oscar is baptized!

Here are some shots from Oscar's baptism on Sunday. Not only are we thrilled for Oscar to take this step of obedience in following the Lord, we are also thrilled to see Pastor Given performing his first baptism service. WOW God is good!!

Now that Matthew is ON the MOVE all the time crawling everywhere I have to be creative about helping him entertain himself so I can make meals. Here he is making some music. Don't ya like his outfit...too hot for clothes these days. ha ha :)

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We really dig into our packages, literally!! Thanks for sending love through the mail!!!

Madylanne had so much fun playing with some new friends this week. Our dear friend Sepo brought some of her neighborhood friends to play with Madylanne. They are Carol, Grace, Charles, and Ijo. A rainbow appeared in the sky while we were all playing and I had the blessing of being able to share the story from the Bible of Noah and the ark, and God's promise that He will never flood the whole earth again- the rainbow. One of them had never heard it before.

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Here is Madylanne holding one of our two new turkey chicks. They are cute! But we are NOT naming them....we may just be eating them next Thanksgiving!! :)

Giving thanks with our mission family

We always seem to miss our families back in the States even more on holidays. So we felt extra blessed to be able to spend Thanksgiving with our mission family in Lusaka. Madylanne and Matthew had so much fun with their missionary kid cousins! And Mark and I were blessed beyond measure by our share time after the big yummy meal of turkey by getting to hear what God is doing all over Zambia and then being able to pray for one another.
The top photo is Madylanne with Amos and Hutch, who are 3 and 4. They just ate chocolate cupcakes, can't you tell? :)
Next is Zoe holding her buddy Matthew.
Next is a shot of most of the mk's in front of the bounce house Ellen rented for the day. WOW, you are the best Ellen!! The bottom two shots are of the missionaries who were able to gather for prayer time. Thank You Lord for our mission family! Thank You Lord for what you are doing in people's hearts all over Zambia!!