The Little Chapel

This is the little Edman Memorial Chapel in the HoneyRock village. It really is beautiful and these pictures don't do it justice. It was really neat walking in there. Last years burdens and commitments were still nailed to the cross, and I can imagine the special times that have happened in there throughout the years.

HoneyRock pics

The sign at the entrance of the camp road.The lodge where we eat and fellowship.
The fireplace in the lodge. Rather messy with loads of stuff the students left there while they ate
A few of the HoneyRock staff. Most pictured here will move on in the fall. That's whats so cool. These guys invest in the camp and get to know the staff and make friendships and grow in Christ and then leave to go start the ministry God's calling them too. At the right is Brandon and Jackie. they will leave in the fall to go to another camp out in Colorodo. They have been called to serve there. One girl has just left to go to England to work in a mission there. A couple will be returning to Columbia , South America and yet others over in Czech and Africa. Its awesome to know they're so many willing to still go and share the Gospel of Christ in foreign lands and love the whole world as Jesus did.

Snowmen!

The snow was perfect the other day to build snowmen.

They were outside a long time rolling them and then waited for Daddy to get home to stack them. They had so much fun and I liked watching them as I passed the sliding glass door. They've helped me to remember the fun times I had as a kid playing for hours outdoors in the winter wonderland. It was so fun!!
Haley's snowman w/ Jackson playing football in the background.
Jackson's snowman

The snow had melted quite a bit when these were taken last week but has since returned and is falling very heavily right now.

Words for the Day

I'm reading a book right now called, How I Know God Answers Prayer, by Rosalind Goforth ,1921. It is their family's memoirs of answered prayer in their lives. They were missionaries in China and these are some of the times God showed Himself to be all-powerful, all-knowing and full of grace. This is a poem from the book .

"He answered prayer: so sweetly that I stand,

Amid the blessing of His wondrous hand,

And marvel at the miracles I see,

The favours that His love hath wrought upon me.

Pray on for the impossible and dare,

Upon thy banner, this brave motto bare,

'My Father answers prayer.'"

It's not the most poetic,fluid and beautiful poem in the world, but after reading the ways God worked miracles in their life, I tried to understand from their perspective, after all those times and trails, how these words came from her heart and how humble and inspiring she was.

He has worked miracles in all of our lives and how many more He wants to give if we would just be ready to receive them from ready, obedient and faithful hearts,lives and attitudes.

Exploring camp

We've been outside everyday since we've been here. It's a beautiful time of year. Not too cold and its the time before it all melts and makes a muddy mess. We've had alot of fun exploring the different and interesting places here at camp. We were walking on the lake yesterday evening and saw either bobcat,lynx or mountain lion tracks along with a multitude of other ones. The kids and I haven't looked up the track online yet but it's been interesting to see all the different animal tracks there are in our yard and around camp and try to guess what they are.
The sun reflects so brightly off the snow and its just beautiful. I love being in the midst of such beautiful creation.

Our Home at Honeyrock

Here is a couple pics of our house here at camp. We are in the middle of camp and the kids are loving it so far. The broomball court, rink, rockclimbing and one of the tubing hills are right out our door.

Dell walks up the this path to go to work and we have been enjoying the closeness to him. He even talked me into coming to make french bread for him in the lodge kitchen a few days ago while the little kids napped and the big ones watched a movie.( We have walkie talkies and can talk back and forth. ) It worked out well and it helped him out alot.

You might be a redneck if.............

.....your youngest(and last)
childs 2nd birthday consists
of a ham sandwhich and coffee crisp
chocolate bar at 8:30 at night :)

We had just arrived at Honeyrock after 2 days of traveling in terrible weather: it was -3 and we were all so.. tired but you gotta do what you gotta do. Needless to say we had a really good laugh about it all and will make for a good story to tell about him.

I really don't know why we didn't celebrate his birthday over breakfast at Cracker Barrel when he had a pancake with whip cream on it! I guess the thought didn't cross my mind in all the chaos.