Vacation Bible School (Mon-Thur)

Vacation Bible School never has a dull moment!

Mr. David definitely gets into it

This year instead of having preaching and a story at class time we had a contest with memorizing verses. It seemed to go well and the kids loved learning new verses.

The cookie ladies :)

Along with saying verses at class time they were able to different projects each night.

Tom and Huck on the Riverboat Adventure!

The Judge

  Yes, that is David ("Dudley") getting a pie in his face! He was awarded pies three nights in a row :)                                   

Roscoe and Ruby Fox (bad guys)

Telling his river rats to steal the money! (yes, that is Susan as a river rat:)

The whole gang

Waiting for the other bus to get in :)

Mr. David getting them riled up :)

Our new handy dandy drinking fountain!

Game time

Craft time in Susan's class

Part of Susan's class

Preschoolers through 2nd grade

What we would do without cookie time?

The river rats waiting for their entrance

Captain Bixby and Dan

Looking evil :)

David ("dudley") fits really well into his cast as a dumb deck hand who can't speak!:)

Trying to keep Sid from tattle-tailing 

Captain Bixby getting a pie

Roscoe quoting "Shakespeare" :)

"Oh no boys and girls the bad guys captured Sid...what are we going to do?"

Roscoe is setting a bomb on the U. B. Friend Lee!!! Oh no!!! Will it blow up and the bad guys will win? You will have to come back later and find out!:)

Happy Father's Day, Dad!

TO OUR WONDERFUL DAD!

You've put your heart and soul into the family life we share,

Creating something special with your wise and loving care.

You've laid down a foundation that means more than words can tell,

Giving us the blueprints for the path to living well...

(The family before Susan came along)

You've built a safe place in this world where we can always go

For help and good advice and the integrity you show.

(The father daughter bond)

You've been the kind of father who's devoted, strong, and true

And that's why there's no end to all the love we feel for you.

(Michael graduation from college and David graduation from high school)

This Father's Day really comes from the heart, Dad, because you have worked so hard and given so much out of love for each one of us.

(Dad with his favorite granddaughter, Tanith)

Thank you for being a Godly Dad who never wavers!

(Dad carrying us off to bed)

Susan's graduation from high school

Dad with his two boys and his new baby girl!

David's graduation from college

Family photo from Susan's kindergarten graduation

Family photo taken in 2002...definitely have come along way! :)

Father/Son Picnic

We had our Father and Son picnic last week. The guys don't like formal banquets so we went with a picnic instead.

An Evangelist from Morrice, MI came and spoke!

Of course, they had to have sports involved :)

Graduation at Heritage Baptist Academy!

We had our graduation service a few weeks back. Two of our teen boys graduated and are moving on. It has been neat to see the Lord bring more and more teens to our church and for them to grow and want to serve the Lord.

Caleb Wielock

Nathaniel Smith

So they made Susan scoop ice cream :)

Our church family

The Graduates!

Vacation Bible School Is Coming!

Vacation Bible School 2009

Pray for us this coming week as we have close to 100 kids each night that we bring in to hear the gospel. These are some pictures from last years vbs.

Our pastor's son enjoyed his last vbs with us last year! We will miss his great spirit this year!

The townspeople at "DeWitt Junction!"

The bad guys and Deputy Dum Dum! Yep, that is David! He fits the character very well!

THE FRIDAY FAIR!

We sugar the kids up right before we take them back to their parents! :)

We had 12 booths with games for the kids to play and hopefully this year we will have more.

Peter the clown

Happy Memorial Day!

I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
and then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.

I heard the sound of TAPS one night,
When everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That TAPS had meant "Amen,"

When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free.

May we never forget how much freedom costs!