Finally, 80 degrees and sunny. Loving it!

I think i am close to over committing myself. Teach youth Sunday school in the morning, then missions meeting after church and youth Awana Mon. night.

The battle to live a life of wisdom or foolishness is continually before us. James 3:13-18 The only wise living is the life which reflects & glorifies Christ!

Wow, what a week. Overnight every day except wed. Its good to be home with my wife again.
Kenny

Enjoying Labor day off and going to the tribe game with Kyle @ Kendra and Grant @ Becky. Looking forward to a great day of fun and fellowship with friends.

Praise the Lord we are in ohio.

On the road. Car is running good with the normal stops every few minutes. Thanks for your prayers.

We made it back to school!

Thank you everyone for your prayers! Our travel back to school went well. We found a slow leak in one of our tires and were able to replace it before loading up our little prius and heading down to SC. We did have access last year to internet in our rooms but for some reason the staff has discontinued providing internet access and most sites are blocked including blog websites. So we have to go off campus in order to post so we will try our best to keep you up to date. The student body is 47 this year and beginning to get to know the first years. We are spending some time with a lativan couple who has been married a little over a year. Getting to know them which has been a lot of fun. Until next time we love you all and are praying for you.

Give the Lord Praise!

I am continually overwhelmed when I think of the surpassing goodness of our Lord and Savior. Every day is a blessing and each breath is a gift from above. Wow it is going on three weeks already that we have been home. This summer is flying by so quickly. Well a lot has happened since we have been home. The basement apartment is done and ready to move in ... well I think there will be things to work on and projects to do for a very long time but the basement is livable and we are beginning to move in. Currently we have been living in the top of my parents house. As we move into the basement, they are going to move into the top. Wow what a blessing it is to have a place to call home, that we can begin to decorate as home. I know Janelle is getting really excited. The Lord has blessed us so much, Janelle is currently working as the church secretary and I was helping my uncle paint this week. Amidst the poor job availability I was able to find a job so that has been so good as well. I am waiting on a call right now from the boss on when to start, I am assuming next week but we will see. Well, that is all for now but truly overwhelmed that the blessings of the Lord. Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow!

Heading to Ohio for the

Heading to Ohio for the summer. It is cold, have to go through spring all over again. Its been in the ninties in SC.
KC

End of School is drawing near!

Wow, I can't believe that our first year is almost over. Looking back, it has been an exciting year full of ups and downs and the Lord teaching us a lot. The last several weeks have been really busy for us with conferences and back to back long distant trips but it was well worth it. Friends only get married once.

Prevailing Prayer!

During the last month especially, the Lord has been teaching us here at EI a lot about persevering and prevailing prayer. One of our GC missionaries was arrested when entering a country with a suitcase of bibles. During this time we were alerted about the situation and began interceding for him around the clock. He was released a few days later unharmed and untouched miraculously! Praise be to God! Be assured that when we pray we never change the mind of God, for He knows our thoughts before we even think about them (Ps 139:2). The beautiful thing about prayer though is that by discerning the will of God and praying accordingly we are able to take part in God's glory and what He is doing around where we are and around the world. Through this answered prayer we boast in Christ and Christ alone. An aspect of God which the Lord has really been reaffirming in my life lately has been, Jesus Christ as our Great High Priest! He in continually interceding before the throne of heaven on the behalf of His children. As we are born of a sinful nature and will find ourselves in many difficult situations tempted and tested, for we are no match for the devil. Be assure that our Great High Priest desires the very best for us and is praying that our faith fail us not as He did with Peter (Luke 22:31-32). The man who was arrested came to visit us here at EI and shared with us his testimony and what the Lord did through the situation he found himself in. I was really encouraged and challenged in getting to know him and hearing about how the Lord met him and provided everything he needed to endure, even in a place where he thought he would not come out alive. The devil has been and is right now a defeated foe, so let us continue to share of the goodness of God, destroying the works of the enemy (Rev. 12:11). A quote that I have heard lately and thought that it was really good was "Let us be an Arminian on your feet and a Calvinist on your knees!" We need to continue to teach and preach the gospel every where we go even in the face of death as if it were up to man to save and yet we need to be on our knees pleading and interceding to God, knowing that there is nothing of our own self that will ever be able to save a single soul.


Another prayer request that i do want to make you aware of if you aren't already is for a young teacher here at EI. He is about 29 and just had his first little boy, he was very active in mountain climbing and even worked for search and rescue in CO. About three weeks ago he came down with a very dreadful yet mysterious decease called Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Basically what this does is it shuts down the entire nervous system. So for the last two weeks Michael has been completely paralyzed but able to still feel pain and itch. Right now he can only move his little pinky a little and his eye brows. This has been another real life situation that the Lord has been using to teach me about persevering and prevailing prayer. If you think about it please join in prayer for healing and that the Lord would be Glorified through this unsuspected circumstance. Also for grace and endurance for his wife as during this same time their little boy has been hospitalized as well. We are all praying and expecting great things, trusting that the Lord knows exactly what he is doing. A verse that I want to leave you with that the Lord encouraged me with is Rom 12;12 "Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer". No matter what life brings our way, Praise be to God that we have hope to rejoice in our Lord Jesus Christ, that by being patient in tribulations the Lord is forming us more into the likeness of Himself which is the highest possible goal to seek after as Paul explains in Col. And through it all taking everything to God in prayer.

Crazy Hair Night at EI

Well, we had a crazy hair night at EI last weekend and had some pretty interesting hair dos. Here are some pictures to show you the styles that appeared for the event. We had a good night of fun and fellowship.

Green Hair Dan

The Rock Band (Note our teacher is in the middle)

Lost in the Hair Ladies

Noah impersonating Mr. Johnson (He was the hair style winner)

John Deere Women with her brother

Bono and his wife

This is the EI logo

Mr. T "I pitty da fool!"

Theological Question

So, this is a question we have been asked this week and are going to discuss tomorrow in class. Janelle and I had a great discussion over this question and wrestling with different passages tonight. So I posse the question to you guys out there, wanting to see your views. Anyone is free to comment giving their explanation. But with your answer you need to have a valid point and an explanation. Here goes, in the latter part of Romans 7, from verse 14 to 25 Paul speaks of a specific person. Is this person saved or unsaved, if unsaved did he get saved, if saved is this the norm for Christians to experience this warfare or is this a defeated Christian, why or why not? Let me know your thoughts?

Ok I spoke to soon, winter hit again

We call it the Lord's sanctifying work and it usually takes place on the volleyball courts. Rain or shine we are usually out and playing. At EI it's considered another class, and I have learned so much while on the volleyball courts. Even now I look back and simply just laugh.