Ministry Update

God has been so good and we've been seeing amazing things happening at the edge. God's been moving on the hearts of our young people and they are rising up to get a hold of God and wanting to be used to lead in their generation. At youth camp in Dec, we challenged them all to become cell group leaders. We currently have about 50 cell groups that are totally run by the youth. There are about 300 that are involved in the cells. So we challenged the youth that by the end of 2009 we would have 300 cell leaders. It was amazing to hear the responses from the young people. Many whom, you would never have guessed would even desire to become a leader, expressed a desire to be trained and raised up to lead.

We have just started up a new quarter of classes at our church and we currently have 70 youth in the cell leaders training class. We are so excited to see these 70 begin to lead cells in the next few months. We are strategizing with our main youth leaders, between the ages of 16-29, at who else we can raise up and the steps that we're going to take to get them to that point and ready to lead. It's an exciting time for all of us!!!!

For many months, we've been praying that our weekly youth service, the edge, would break through the 300 barrier. We've been hovering right about 280-295 for a few months now and Jeremy's been challenging the youth to see us pass the 300 marker. This past Saturday, we did just that. We had an amazing attendance of 321 young people!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so amazing to see and to be in that place. When Jeremy announced to them all that we had surpassed 300, the room was electric!!!!! The excitement couldn't be contained!!!! It was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

God's been so good...as always of course, but we're seeing things now that we've been dreaming and praying about since we came here 7 1/2 years ago. Words cannot express all that is happening here and we are SO privileged to be a part of it. I will try to get some video soon of the service so you can get a taste as to what it is like. It's truly amazing. Please keep praying for us and for all that's going on. It's an exciting time!!!!!

Happy New Year!!!

Well, it's already 2009...I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years and that this year is off to a great start for all of you. We are doing great over here. We didn't do much for New Years here. We had a watchnight service at church on New Year's Eve and then Jeremy went to an all night youth activity. I came back home with the kids after the service ended a little after midnight. New Years Day, we just relaxed and stayed around the house and got together with Jeremy's parents in the evening. We had a great youth service tonight at "the edge" and are excited for all that God's going to do this year. It is such a blessing to see so many youth serving God and desiring to do more for Him. We are so privaleged to be able to work with them and inspire them to do more. God's so good!!!

Caleb is getting bigger and bigger and saying the funniest things. I'm not sure where he gets it all, but he puts things together very well and then randomly it comes out in conversations. The other day Jeremy was getting ready in our room in the morning and Caleb was playing with his new remote control car. He had a great idea that he wanted to make the car go under our bed and then out the other side. So he asked Jeremy if he could do that. Jeremy told him no, cause he didn't want the car to get stuck under the bed. Then Caleb says, "Daddy, just trust me!!!!" So, Jeremy was kinda stuck and said he could do it, that he trusted him...=) We just thought that was so hilarious!!!! He's a very good kid and is very smart. He's always got a plan for everything. =) His latest thing is that he loves transformers...so the poses you see below, are of him being a transformer... =)




Megan is 2 months old today...time is just flying by. She's really growing now as well. She's fitting into more of her 0-3 month clothing, so that's nice...they're not swimming on her anymore which is really nice!!! I've been dying to put her into her cute jeans and tops and everything. She's finally grown into another pair of her jeans so I am happy. =) I'm having fun dressing her up. She's just too adorable, if I may say so myself. =) She's smiling so much now, especially when you get close in her face. She just smiles so big...I think she'll be laughing soon!!! She's also sleeping through the night already!!! She started at about 6 weeks and now she's sleeping for about 10 hours at night. It's such a blessing!!!!! God's so good to me!!!



Jeremy is doing well too. December was a busy month for him especially. It all started with him speaking at a youth camp for another local church here in Singapore. Then the following week we had our youth camp, up in Malaysia. The week after ours he was the speaker at another youth camp, also in Malaysia. The day after he came back from that he went straight into an encounter retreat here for some of our youth. It's sort of an inner healing kind of retreat, 2 day thing. So, there was a lot of teaching and praying involved in that. Then a couple days after Christmas he went back into Malaysia for one of our churches to speak for a youth outreach. So, as you can see, it's been one busy month!!!!!

I've been trying to keep the fort down here at home. =) So far, it's going alright. Still getting used to having 2 kids and finding time to get away for a shower!!!! =) Even the simplest things are complicated now. Anyway, things are going well though and we're doing well. I love having 2 kids and Caleb is a big help with Megan. He loves doing things for her and he's very good at doing things for himself as well. I'm so thankful for both of my kids...they are so good!!!!! And Jeremy's a wonderful husband!!! We've been married now for 7 1/2 years!!! I can't believe it.


Anyway, that's the update on us. I hope you enjoyed the pictures as well...

Merry Christmas!!!!

Merry Christmas, everyone!!! I hope you all have had a great Christmas this year. We had a great one. Caleb really enjoyed himself and Megan...well, she looked cute. =) She'll enjoy it a lot more next year. We started celebrating here on the 22nd as Jeremy's parents took off for Hawaii the following day. So, we had our turkey dinner on the 22nd at their place and opened presents. Then We had turkey dinner all over again on the 24th at our place and opened all the presents from my side of the family. Then Christmas morning we all opened presents from each other here at our place as well as opened our stockings. Then we went to the Christmas service at our church. We came back and ate leftover turkey dinner!!!! In the evening we went out to dinner with some of our youth leaders here and had a good time just hanging out and enjoying the evening...Here are some pictures and video of our Christmas...Hope you enjoy them!!!

Megan's latest...

Megan's 7 weeks old today and doing great, she's sleeping through the night now for 8-9 hours and is such a good baby. She's a little smiler and looks like she'll be laughing soon. We are really enjoying her. So, here's some of her latest pics and a new video of her smiling a lot. Hope you enjoy them!!








And here's the video...Enjoy!!!

It's almost Christmas!!!!

I can't believe Christmas is in just a few days. Caleb's getting very excited and keeps on asking when he can open presents. I've just started to put some presents under the tree as I didn't want to tempt him too much. My sister, who came in early November, brought presents from my family, but I didn't dare put them out until just last night. I figure it is good for him to learn a little self-control though too...=) So, we'll see how it goes, but so far, so good. We'll be celebrating a day early with Jeremy's parents as they will be going to Hawaii for Christmas to be with Jeremy's grandma. So, it'll just be the 4 of us here this year. It'll be a great one and I know one that Caleb especially is going to enjoy! Anyway, here's a picture of our tree and a silly one of Caleb in front of it as well as one of him and some of his favorite youth. They are his "friends" as he refers to them. =) Our cat, Cheerio, also loves Christmas and has claimed the tree skirt as his new favorite place to nap.

Smiling Megan...

Well i managed to catch a couple little smiles on video the other day so thought I'd share with you all. Enjoy!!! We're off to youth camp this week with 270 of our youth!!!! It's gonna be an awesome week!!!!! Caleb's been looking forward to camp for months so this morning he asked me if we were going and i told him we were. He said, "right now?" I told him after we got ready, and immediately he wanted to get in the bath. He's been more than willing to do anything...as long as we go to camp!!!

So thankful for my family...

Well, with thanksgiving last week, it makes you think about what you're thankful for. It didn't take much thinking though as I feel so blessed. Our growing little family is what I'm so thankful for. Jeremy is such an amazing husband and the best friend ever. Caleb is so much fun and hilarious. He makes us laugh all the time with all his little antics and the expressions he uses. He is quite full of energy but when he settles down, he's quite the sweetheart. He's always giving us kisses and hugs and telling Jeremy, Megan, and I that he loves us. My favorite is after I give him a kiss, and he says, "Mom, thanks for that kiss!!!" It's just the cutest thing ever. Then there's our newest addition, Megan. She's still so little but has brought us so much joy. She's such a good baby and so much fun. Here's a couple pics taken on thanksgiving of the kids...


Today, as I was changing Megan, Caleb and I were playing and talking to her. I started tickling her a little and she smiled!!!!! Then did it again a bit later when I tickled her again. It was so cute! It's the first time that she's smiled in response to something. Most of the time she just smiles in her sleep. So, that was a lot of fun. She will be one month old tomorrow already. I can't believe it's already been that long. I'm trying to savor each moment as I know it goes WAY TOO FAST!!!!!!! This video was taken just tonight...enjoy...



I have truly been so blessed. When I was little I always wanted to be a mom...I've dreamed of where I am right now. So, I'm right where I always wanted to be, serving God as a wife and a mom. People ask me how things are going with the 2 kids now, and I just tell them I'm so happy right now cause this is all I ever wanted and dreamed of. God is so good and He's taken such good care of us as well as let us be a part of an amazing church here with the most amazing young people ever! I'll update soon on how the youth ministry is going. God's doing great things and we're so happy to be apart of it!!!