The Edge: Big Launch

Well this last Saturday, March 14th, we had the "Big Launch" at our youth service, The Edge. We launched our brand new website that is finally finished. We also released some new 'edge cards' as we call them, invitation cards to the service with a cool design and a map on the back. We also got some shirts made as well as some notebooks and stickers...so it was a "big launch" of our new stuff!!!! It was an exciting night and everyone loved all the new stuff. The building was decorated and everything...it all looked very cool. So, I thought I'd let you all in on it and let you take a look and it all. So, here's the link to the new website: www.theedge.org.sg and here's some pictures from the night.


This coming Monday, Jeremy and I, and our kids of course, are heading back to Seattle for a youth conference at The City Church. We are so excited to be able to bring with us 11 of our youth leaders. We are very excited to be there and to have our vision yet again expanded for our own lives as well as the youth ministry here in Singapore. Please keep us all in prayer during the next couple weeks.

Time flies....

I cannot believe how fast everything goes. Life gets busy and months just fly by. Megan is 3 1/2 months old now and she's such a fun baby. She's so smiley and happy!!! When she looks at Jeremy and I her whole face lights up and she gets this huge smile with a little scrunched up nose. It's the cutest thing ever!!! A couple weeks ago we were talking on the webcam with my sister and Caleb started laughing at something. Megan just loves her brother and just loves staring at him. So as he laughed at whatever it was that he thought was funny at the time, she decided to try laughing as well. She let out the cutest little chuckle as she smiled at her big brother...her hero!!!

Megan's dedication- Feb 8, 2009

Grandpa Seaward dedicating Megan to the Lord!!!

Caleb is doing well also and just growing up so fast. He's quite a thinker and always has some sort of plan up his sleeve. In March we're heading back to Seattle for a youth conference and a visit with my family. He's so excited about it and tells just about everyone about it. He loves Seattle for many reasons and one of them is that it's not near as hot there as it is here. He's constantly telling me that it's really hot here and that we need some winter!!! =) I love hearing about all that's going on in his mind and as he makes connections about all sorts of things.

Deep in thought

Caleb playing in the fountains at a shopping mall

Caleb and his buddy at the edge

Jeremy and I are doing well. We've been super busy, but that's not new. =) We did manage to get out and celebrate Valentine's day, so that was nice. Caleb went to see Grandpa and Grandma Seaward and Megan came with us but slept pretty much the whole time. So we had a nice dinner together and some quiet to have a nice conversation!!!

Valentine's dinner

God's been so good to us and we're so excited about all that God's doing here in the youth ministry. We've been here for almost 8 years now and we're seeing now what we only dreamed of back then. God's working on the youth in amazing ways...personally as well as with them reaching out to their friends. I took a video a few weeks ago to give you a taste of what's been happening. This is of part of the worship time, sorry it's so dark, but at least it's a feel for it...here's a few photos as well...

The Edge worship

Jeremy preaching

New Pics of the Kids...

Hey, just thought I'd post a few new pics of the kids...they're doing great...Megan's 'talking' more and more now...it's so adorable. She's such a sweetie. Caleb is still doing so great with her and just adores her. Enjoy the pics...

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!!!