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Today I have the pleasure of promoting a new blog site intimately connected to Requisite Danger and my journey with the Wild Goose. Emily, my lovely bride of 11 and half years, has just started her very first blog (trust me, that fact alone is HUGE!) focusing on our newest adoption adventure. Two years [...] Twenty-one months ago (minus a few days) our lives were forever changed with the birth of our son Jadon. Interwoven among the emotions of joy and extreme happiness was an uncertainty that we would be unable to bring him home due to the lack of funds. I’m not talking about hospital fees or anything [...] Fourteen months ago Emily and I adopted the most precious child in the world (Parenting Handbook Rule 1: parents are allowed to make broad, wide sweeping comments about their kids!!). The journey into the world of adoption was made smooth by the awesome folks at A New Beginning Adoption Agency. I can’t say enough wonderful things about them…the founders are adoptive parents; most of the case workers are adoptive parents; and the birthparent program coordinator is a birthmother herself, having placed her son for adoption when in high school. In other words, these folks KNOW adoptions – shoot, they LIVE adoptions. Seeing, therefore, all the help they gave us, we didn’t hesitant when they asked for volunteers to share their open-adoption stories on camera. It was the least we could do to support them and to help others who are on this same journey. With that said, here are a few videos clips of us with our son’s birthmother answering some basic questions about the adoption journey and our relationship. More clips of us answering other questions can be found here. Question: How was the first meeting with the adoptive parents?
His life as a preacher’s kid has started early. Now, for the record, I did ask his permission before I used his story in my sermon Sunday. He grunted at me – which I took as a “yes” (two grunts are ‘no’). As some of you know, I am now preaching the fourth Sunday of every month – giving the church 12 weeks a year to bring ear plugs (at least they are not bring rotten veggies). No – in all seriousness, I am trilled to be able to share with the congregation and they are loving and kind. It is a blessing to be in a place where I can refine my public speaking abilities. This past Sunday (four days ago) was a special day as it was the first time my Dad and Stepmom had the opportunity to hear me preach. They live down south and only get to visit every few years – this year, God worked things out nicely and they were able to be at church the day I was scheduled to share. Thank you Lord. Today is a very special day for Requisite Danger as we have a gorgeous guest author – the amazing E! Yelp. She is so famous – she only needs one letter to introduce herself. Enjoy. ________________________________________________________________________________  Nashville, Feb 2009 Dear Friends & Family, Wow – it’s hard to believe that 2009 is over already…and that the last time we wrote a letter to all of you was nearly a year and a half ago after our last trip to Paraguay! Sorry we haven’t been better at staying in touch! The time since then has been eventful and life-changing, so we wanted to make sure we got out a holiday note this year to fill you all in. In our last letter in Sept. 2008, we mentioned that our little church was facing big changes as we and our fellow VLI-grad took on the leadership of the church. Along with our new service time and name, the PRV has been growing by leaps and bounds since then. We’ve seen some turn-over in attendance as is expected when there are leadership changes, but we’ve been excited to see new faces and have been consistently having 30-40 people every Sunday. We still have a good core group from before that have been stepping up in leadership more and more. This summer we finally made the official break from the VB and became our own church entity and just this month we finished jumping through all the hoops and are an official part of the USA Association of Vineyard Churches. Of course through all of this my (E’s) job has gotten bigger with the addition of accounting and more paperwork, but with more people in the church taking on event organization, etc. it hasn’t been too hard to handle. Continue reading The Long Awaited, Overdue 2009 Newsletter It’s official. Em and I have thrown our hat into the adoption ring. Yelp – you read that correctly. We are adopting a small child or baby – we are open to any gender, any race and any age between newborn and 2 or 3 years old (ok – that may not be [...] |
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