Prayer Request

For all of you who read here, please be praying for us. On Thursday, I (Caroline) have an interview for a music teacher job in Springdale. It says in the bible that where two or three come together in His name, that God comes and dwells there with those lifting up his name. Please pray around 10:30 Thursday morning for the interview to go well. We have been waiting for a year on a full time teaching job and we are hoping this will be the end to the search. Please pray for protection, that the enemy will not have a foothold on me or anyone else involved in this process. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world and we are going to continue to stand on this promise regardless of what happens! Our God is a sovreign God who does everything in his timing. We would covet your prayers over the next couple of days. God Bless!

Happy 1st Anniversary!

Cole and I celebrated our first anniversary on June 28th. We kind of took a different approach to celebrating due to our crammed schedule (welcome to college ministry). Cole made me breakfast in bed on the Friday before our anniversary and announced he had cancelled all my meetings for the day (i.e. breakfast with a friend, lunch with another, and dinner w/ a couple from our church). We got in the car for the surprise trip and ended up in Sequoyah state park outside of Talequah, OK. The plan was to camp, but after a rather warm picnic in 100 degree temps, we decided maybe we should re-plan our trip. We found a hotel after a long search (apparently Talequah is the garden spot of Oklahoma) and had a great dinner at a place called Sam and Ella's chicken palace (say the name really fast to get the joke). We went to the hotel and sat in air conditioning and enjoyed being together. Sometimes its the simple things that mean the most. The next morning we packed up and went to the Illnois river with a group of students and got a little sunburned. On Sunday, we came home from church and went to go see "Up"; fantastic flick by the way! Then, we went home, made steak with all the fixins, and ate cake and ice cream to finish up the night. It was a great start to many more anniversaries. I'm so proud of the man I married, and how God uses both of us in the others life to be remade into the image of Christ daily.











Trying to figure out where we are headed

Still thinking.........And Cole giving me no hints.

Sequoyah State Park
At Sam and Ella'sOn our way to float the river. Happy Anniversary!

Thailand Pictures

Thailand pics

Hey, everyone. Sorry it has taken me so long to post. We pretty much hit the ground running once we got back stateside, so needless to say I haven't had a lot of time to update this blog. Cole and I are pretty much caught up on sleep and our stomachs have adjusted back to American food...took a couple of days and a bottle of pepto bismol to get us there. Anyways, here are some of our pictures from our trip. God continues to teach us a lot even after we are home. Please continue to pray for our team: Austin (Cole's brother), Tyler, Emily, Kayla, and Kasey. We got an update from Austin this morning. They are more than halfway done with this trip and have just finished putting on an English camp. They had many good conversations with students this weekend. Pray that this would go beyond questions about God to how to have a relationship with Him. Pray that they fell the weight of their sin and their need of a Savior to redeem them. I'm currently loading the rest of the pictures onto a picasa web album. I'll put the address up as soon as I am done. Love to all of you! By the way the picture next to this is me and Cole in the back of a tuk-tuk...it's a motorcycle cart thing that they use for transportation in the city. It was really fun!