the day we met Annabelle

Our family has been the subject of a documentary being filmed by a young lady finishing her film major at PSU. She’s been working primarily with Kim and Annabelle, walking through the adoption process. It’s been very interesting to watch, as the young lady is Chinese and had little knowledge Read more

Lilly’s class project

I wasn’t going to share this, but I’m pretty proud of Lilly’s work.  She wrote, recorded, and edited this piece for one of her classes.  It tells the story of Charlie pretty well. This is what we do. This is who we are.   Charlie Sublett from Lilly Sublett on Read more

where do I sign up?

This past Sunday was incredible! All the Calvary worship gatherings met at Eisenhower to cap off our OneByOne Initiative series. This is so much more than a building fund drive or a capital campaign; we’re talking about resourcing the vision that God has placed on our hearts for Happy Valley and beyond. Read more

our hearts hurt

Team Sublett has suffered a terrible loss.  March 15 was the day we first heard about a pregnant lady in a far off state who was interested in finding a family to adopt her baby girl, due to be born near the end of May.  Kim passed the info around her adoptive Read more

CityServe was a blast!

Once a year Calvary decides to cancel our weekend worship services, pick up our rakes and shovels and paintbrushes, and go serve our neighbors.  It’s really a humongous undertaking.  It’s also one of the highlights of the year. This year we decided to throw an overnight party for the youth group Read more

writing another story

I had two out-of-the-ordinary conversations today.  The first was with some grandparents from our church.  They’d been wondering what was going on for youth (they have a few headed toward 6th grade) and had no idea.  So they asked me to lunch and plied me with questions.  They had definite Read more

one o’ them days

It began with Kim recording “indisputable video evidence” of me snoring.  While I failed to see the humor in it, she seemed quite delighted with herself.  We spent a good (not really good) portion of the day chasing down expired drivers licenses, renewing expired vehicle registrations, and trying to figure out which Read more

like father, like son

Levi and I got the chance to lead worship tonight for our student ministry.  We had a blast! Folks were singing loudly, clapping, dancing around…it was fun for us to get to play together.  My buddy Kevin took this picture of us during sound check: Check out our faces–identical!  And Read more

striking the set

Children of Eden has come to a close, and with the final bow, Levi is ever so near the end of his high school thespian career.  It’s been wonderful, full of great friends, beautiful performances, and life lessons.  Being part of this troupe has provided a sense of community and Read more