Ciara's Wedding (part 2)

Ciara and Brian were married on Sunday July 13th... enjoy the pictures

Ciara's Wedding...

(in two postings)

Nathan took pictures as the photographer was also shooting the professional shots... I think they speak for themselves

Churches visited...

While in Spokane we were warmly welcomed to speak at 4 different churches.  Only being in town for 6 weeks, and attending Ciara's wedding on one Sunday, and having our wedding on the following Sunday means that all our Sundays were very busy.

At St David's Episcopal, we had the blessing of sharing during their coffee hour after the early service before the late service.  Then we rushed off to speak at Otis Orchards Community Church (Julianna's home church).  The next Sunday we spoke at Journey Fellowship, and were invited to join their weekly baseball game after the service.  Our last Sunday in the states we spent the day with St. Marie's First Baptist, enjoying a wonderful BBQ on the river after the service.

We were blessed every week as we met brothers and sisters in the Lord and shared what God has been doing in our lives, and the new direction He is sending us into as the National Director team for YFC - Swaziland.

From the top of Mt. Spokane to Lake Coeur d'Alene I enjoyed showing off my community to Nathan.  The first weekend we watched Tiffany's boyfriend, Johnny, play basketball at "Hoopfest".  Nathan went crazy taking pictures of how all the streets of downtown Spokane are completely closed off for the whole weekend while thousands of teams of all ages compete.  We also saw the Spokane Falls in all their glory due to the large snow melt off this year.  

 God blessed us with much time with extended family while in the stateds... beautiful day at the Pend Orielle (pon-der-ay) with Julianna's fathers brothers family (she only has 2 cousins)!  Nathan was the official photographer when it came time to take the family photo. The day ended with a beautiful sunset while the kids still got in a little fishing time.    

July 3rd... Nathan and I enjoyed a wonderful time at my sister's with a good 'ol fashioned' BBQ.  If you look closely you will see that my daughter is wearing high heels while playing basketball - she was breaking in the shoes for Ciara's wedding.  

It has been a long time since I updated my blogsite... now that I have a partner in ministry (my husband, Nathan) I am hoping to have some help in keeping this updated.  So... forgive me for the absence... but I am picking up with about 2 months ago news with separate blogs

June 26th was the big day... Nathan put a ring on my finger when he arrived at the Sea-Tac airport!! In all the excitement though, he lost his passport. We didn't realize it was gone until about 2/3 of the drive home to Spokane.  God was faithful to look after it, and 5 days later we had confirmation that it was found and in the hands of a South African friend (Lucy) of Nathan's.