Love All Bears

It's true sister love when one sister knows the desires of another sister's heart and gets her a six foot tall teddy bear. Abigail has been asking for a giant bear for as long as I can remember. Katherine jumped on an opportunity to get her that very thing when a friend was getting rid of one she didn't want. We went to see Katherine in school a few weeks ago and she surprised Abigail with the very large furry friend. It was love at first sight. 

A favorite family story involves Abigail and bears. When she was very young, a Sunday School assignment had one of the girls bringing home a paper heart with the Scripture "Love Bears All" on it. As we were talking about it after church, Abigail, as she often did in her literal way, said, "I don't know why it just can't say LOVE ALL BEARS." 

Still makes me smile after all these years. 

My Hour on Tuesday

Malaika, Mustafa, Nofal, Shion, Rafka, Pwesay...most days I'm doing well to try and remember their names much less pronounce them. Thankfully there are also Sarah, Cassandra, Samantha and Mohammed. These are the faces of Tuesday afternoon Book Club at The Fountains Apartments, a new ministry I've become involved in this year. This apartment complex is a receiving ground for refugees from all over the world -- Iraq, Napal, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan and many others. They come to Book Club on Tuesdays for many reasons, but mostly because their parents want them to learn better English and get reading points for their school assignments. We share books on a huge number of topics, have a snack and do a craft related to their story. We just finished a six week timeline of the Easter story where we shared Jesus every week, because what would Book Club be without reading the greatest story ever told? I am so thankful that I don't have to hop on a plane to share Jesus with the world; He has brought them right to my doorstep.

Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;

    make known among the nations what he has done.

Psalm 105:1

Sharing my birthday with my Book Clubbers

I made cupcakes and thanked them all for coming to my party. 

They loved it!