Is it just me or are our friends' kids the cutest ever?

No lines...the Mummy...King Kong...and Crowder

soherewego...This was Emma's first time to Universal Studios Hollywood, and what better setting than the threat of rain (just a threat) giving us virtually no lines to wait in. We joined up with great friends Bogie and Becca and Dave and Amanda Lebda as well as fellow Romanian missionary Allan Taylor
We saw King Kong, the Mummy, Wisteria Lane and Matt Damons parking spot. It was awesome!






areyoureadyformore...What made our day even better though was the David Crowder Band / Third Day concert that evening. Crowder rocked! I loved his "rock opera" "You are my joy". Emma snuck up into the expensive section to get this pic, cause we were chilling in the nose-bleeds; but that didn't affect the sound. Crowder, you're my hero.

God has provided

Thank you for your prayers...
God has answered and provided
us with a van for our ministry.

Cell Church Conference

Myself, Emma, fellow missionary Allan Taylor and his pastor John Holloway recently attended a Cell Church Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was so great. We learned so many valuable things and gathered so many useful tools for our work in Romania, where we have been functioning as a cell church for about 2 years now.
We are so excited to take the dvds and cds and books that we purchased back and pound through them with Pastor Mihai and the leadership team. We really believe that this conference was vital to our church and were so blessed to have gone.
Below, Pastor Cesar Fajardos pastors at Mision Carismatica Internacional, where over 250,000 members worship God. We were priveleged to hear from pastors like him and others who have seen the cell church proven in their countries, and this gave us so much faith and expectation for what God will do in Romania

A few for the road

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."


Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.


I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.


I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.

Deep Thoughts...and painful laughter

........................Wow! I honestly forgot how funny some deep thoughts were, and when we gathered to celebrate my 27th birthday party I didn't know was I was getting us into by telling everybody to come with their favorite deep thought.

It was hilarious...as Blake James and Brian Hale traded off reading some of the most far-out and yet knee-slapping deep thoughts, the rest of us were on the floor.

It was great.

So yes, I am now 27, or as the Romanians would phrase it, "I have 27 years". Alongside my family and dearest friends we ate, we laughed, we had our cake too, and then we watched Jack Bauer take on the world.