A Little Catch Up

Photo by Harrison's Lens

It has been a bit of a whirlwind since the Big Day of the Wil and Morgan wedding. They honeymooned in Mexico and came back relaxed and tanned and ready to start real life together and 6 weeks in to their marriage they are doing great. Their apartment is set up and they are back into a routine of work and living life. I do want to share this picture with you of Morgan and me walking down the aisle. The first time I saw it, well, I might have teared up a little. So honored to be dad to both Morgan and Shelbi and now dad-in-law to Wil and Mark. Who knew it could be this good?

Mark and Shelbi are doing great and extremely busy. Mark's season of work is much like mine in the summer. We work about 10 months behind the scenes and then summer hits and we run like crazy as campers hit our respective sites. Mark is training for IRONMAN Arizona which takes place in November so he is swimming, biking and riding whenever he can between a busy work schedule.

Summer means that Sondra's work slows down a little but as the bookkeeper for McGavock High School, the year end happens the end of June so needless to say, she is a different kind of busy. She renegotiated some of her work responsibilities going into the 2015-2016 school year and so we are anticipating a little kinder, gentler workload for her in the future.

We have a young adult living with us named Joannah Crosby who is an intern at LifeWay for six weeks. She is from Texas and is a student at Texas A&M and has been a delight to have around the house. She took in the full Nashville experience of CMA Fest this past week and hit all the big time concerts.

Sondra and I got away for a few days after the wedding. We so enjoyed the beach in Alabama. The weather was wonderful and the company I had was beautiful and gorgeous. We hung out at the beach and pool, ate some good seafood, read a lot, rested and of course I did some crazy triathlon training stuff. It was not too terribly hot and the terrain is very flat so that made the workouts a little more enjoyable than what I normally get to do here in hilly, Middle Tennessee.

We had a couple weeks of training our summer staffers for World Changers and P2 Missions and it went well. Our team moves into Belmont University along with the summer staff and we go through some pretty intense training and then send them out to serve for 7 weeks this summer. We kicked off projects this week and will serve 12,000 participants and many more who live in the cities and neighborhoods that we will be in. It is a great privilege and responsibility and an honor to serve the churches.

That is a quick catch up on us. It is a busy summer. I will update as I can!