Sunday morning, we were blessed with the privilege of worshipping with the believers at the Taga church in Hitachi-Taga. This was the church we worked with through our LST experience four years ago. So many familiar faces, so many familiar sights and sounds. It was very much like coming home again. I was asked to [...]
I wanted to take a moment out of our vacation to briefly mention the McLains. Mike McLain and Tomoko Sato are Christian missionaries that live in the Ibaraki prefecture of Japan (where Hitachi is located). We met them four years ago when we did our short LST mission trip, but we didn’t really get the [...]
This year we spent Independence Day with our great friends Tristan & Leslie Block and Leslie’s family in Windom, Kansas. They live on a farm and opened up their implement shed for a huge pot luck meal for family, friends, and neighbors: hamburgers made from the beef of one of their own cows, deviled eggs, [...]
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Cowtown Christmas 2Originally uploaded by N.J. & R.J.Source: Flickr Old Cowtown Museum has an Old Fashioned Christmas each year where they show what Christmas would have looked like in Wichita in the 1870′s. Our friends Ben & Kelly invited us to go and we had a fantastic (but COLD!) time. We enjoyed homemade hot chocolate, [...]
My favorite salon in town, Beau Monde, had a Bare Escentuals makeup event today! I invited my best friend Sharon to come with me and we each got a makeup application lesson from a professional Bare Escentuals makeup artist. You can see the transformation in the before and after pictures below. What a fun morning!
Ryan and I had a Holy Spirit moment last night that I wanted to share with you. I was really craving a #47 Roly Poly last night after my workout – not just craving, but rather a nagging feeling that I couldn’t shake. I knew that we should probably eat at home, but I convinced [...]