Our daughter Josie turned 17 yesterday. She spent most of the day in a car, traveling back from the US Rugby high school national tourney. Our own State High girls rugby team was scrumming it up. They brought home the Read more…
I had a blast with my middle school kids (my personal kids, that is) today at the disc golf course out at Harvest Fields. This might be one of the best-kept secrets in the valley! As the school day ended Read more…
Tonight was another city-wide youth group gathering, and we’re gaining steam! The worship was sweet, Pastor Zac challenged students to actually TELL the good news (as opposed to simply letting their lives speak), and we had several more youth groups Read more…
Tonight was Ms. Paschen’s farewell concert with her 8th grade choir and 2 of her acapella groups. That meant Isaac and Sadie were on stage at the middle school. Which meant that I had to get Big I some new Read more…
Some women are destined for diamonds, perfume, and flowers; my lovely wife has chosen a different road. Oh, there are gems and fragrances and flowers, to be sure. But not the type you’d buy in a shop downtown. Kim had a Read more…
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, Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
This weekend promises to be a significant one in the life of Calvary. Not only is is the last Sunday before finals–which means a bag filled with goodies for every student to help them through the week–it’s also a weekend that Read more…
I swear I blinked and they were all grown up… Levi is in the final stages of his high school musical run. Not the HSM, though that’d be cool, too. He’s in a couple of fantabulous choirs at State High, and if Read more…