Stories we heard from our fathers, counsel we learned at our mother’s knee. We’re not keeping this to ourselves, we’re passing it along to the next generation. – Psalm 78:3-4 Setting the Table Love is… Heart Preparation Love is… Beauty from Ashes Love is… Your Final Chapter Isn’t Written Every journey of the heart begins […]
Vacation Bible School
Heart Story
This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples – when they see the love you have for each other. – John 13:35 Heart Melting Love is… Doing Life Together Love is… Meeting Needs Love is… Sacrifice Love is… Stolen Moments of Grace
Built With Love
Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted. – Psalm 127:1 Let the House Building Begin This morning, our teams headed out in opposite directions to build their homes. One for the Garay Family – a custom home complete with indoor plumbing – built with love. A foundation paved the […]
Homes, Soccer and Shopping Trips
Together we can accomplish what seems like the impossible. We are the penultimate day of our house building adventure, and we arrived today to see the roof started, the windows in place and trim being finished up. When I departed for VBS yesterday afternoon, they were still putting plywood on the roof, and the trim […]
Bonita
Today began like all the other days with waking before the alarm could fulfill its purpose. The problem is, it’s getting earlier and earlier each day. Today, I arose at 5:15 a.m. Yikes! In the stillness of the morning air and light rain, I sat loading pictures to help tell the story of the incredible […]
Transforming Slabs of Concrete and Lives
It was early Monday morning when John asks me, is it 6 am already Dave. I responded to him, its 4 am, and he rolls over and goes back to sleep. The alarm never fulfilled it’s purpose as we rolled out of bed around 5:30 am and headed to our morning coffee and devotions by […]