This is a video for all of you who prayed and supported us on our trip to Barranquilla, Colombia July 17-24, 2010. We had an amazing time! The Lord opened up the door for us to share the gospel with 1493 people with our team of 23 Americans working with 8 local churches.

Here is an update with photos:















Kaitlin is so busy at school, powder-puff, relay for life, student council! She is having a wonderful end to her year and she is driving. It has been a huge help! Kaitlin has also been very busy with her youth group and including as many of her school friends in her activities as she can!

She has taken the opportunity many times this year to share the gospel with some kids at school. She has been bold and loving in her opportunities and learning something about herself each time she shares about her faith. We are praying that she would have more opportunities and that she would have more opportunities to talk deeper with those she has already shared with.

Isabelle is busy, as well. She is finishing her Awana book this week, which has been very difficult this year! She will be dancing the wedding march in her ballet recital, she loves playing soccer and continues to make us laugh daily!

Women's Bible study is going very well and I am very excited about the new ladies who are coming to our group. Our little group is meeting for a movie night on Friday. We are going to watch and Esther movie and have some fun! I have invited several ladies from the church who are not involved. Please pray that we might encourage these gals in their walk and their relationships.

This has been a very difficult semester for Mark. He has had back to back very difficult papers, as well as a very busy time with his work at the seminary. PRAISE....His non-thesis thesis is finished(with wonderful detail and guidance for the future), his last and most grueling Hebrew exegetical is complete!!!! Mark still has one more paper and two finals.

Mark is also having the opportunity to teach a class on Bible Study Methods at Lakepointe Church with their singles ministry.

Mark and I have started meeting with the College students during the Sunday School hour. there are many college/young adults in the church who do not have a connection. We are excited to spend time with them. Please pray for us as we come along side these very cool young people and encourage them in ways Mark and I never experienced at their age.

Very exciting PRAYER request.....Mark and Kaitlin are joining a small team traveling to Baranquilla, Columbia this July. They will travel with E3Partners. They will be sharing the gospel, using the evangecube through neighborhoods with individual translators. They will partner with several churches and pastors to have follow up with the people! They are very excited. Please pray for them as they prepare their hearts. Please pray also for their prayer and financial support raising process. We are planning a large yard sale in the beginning of May and have a few other ideas. I am thrilled for this opportunity for Kaitlin and I am thrilled she will get to experience this opportunity with her dad!

Its been a while but if you are still reading this then you will appreciate how busy our lives have been.

It is April 16 2010 we have had a crazy year. Mark has been finishing Hebrew the last 2 years at DTS (2009-10), by far the most challenging and demanding courses he has taken to date. Kaitlin has been growing and maturing into a beautiful young woman. We are so proud of her and the way she handles adversity and disappointments in life with perseverance and optimism. She received her drivers license and has been a great help to us in many ways. She is always reaching out to friends that are hurting and is a great big sister to Isabelle. Izzy is growing fast, loosing teeth dancing like a wild woman in her Ballet classes. She loves to swing in the backyard draw and write. She is getting better at reading every day and has a sweet sensitive heart. Michele is keeping the family together. She loves us all very sacrificially cooking great meals, doing laundry till midnight and beyond. She helps the girls with homework and shuttles them to practices and more. All the while she is working part time and teaching Walk Thru the Bible seminars. She has really taken off this year teaching in Kansas, Dallas, Houston, and El Paso. There are more coming up and she is fantastic as you might imagine.

We took Aunt Katy to all the Dallas hot spots...

The end of Spring 08 also brought with it the gfraduation from 8th grade! Here are some pictures from Kaitlin's Jr High graduation at church.

The next big event was at the end of May. Isabelle's 1st dance recital. Aunt Katy came out to se her neice following in her footsteps!

Thank you Aunt Katy for making Isabelles dream of dancing come true!!!

Daddy was in the recital too. A little thing they leave out when you sign up. :)

Isabelle is the third one from the right.

The end of May 2008 also brought with it Kaitlin's Spring Choir Concert. It was held at Rowlett Highschool and they did a great job.

The 1st big treat of this week was that Aunt Katy was able to come for a visit!

Isabelle was excited to be in all the pictures.

Our good friends and neighbors down the street Jerry and Michelle Busch were in attendance as their daughter Makayla was also in the choir.

Right after her Team Soccer Party Isabelle rushed off to a real live Princess Birthday Party.

It took very little imagination for Isabelle to get into character.

The Starlets 1st season came to a close at the end of May. They had a rough 1st season being the youngest most inexperienced group in the league.

A memorable moment in their very 1st game of the season came right after the kickoff all the parents started yelling encouraging words and cheering for the Starlets. The problem was all of us parents never yelled like that in practice before so it really scared the girls to hear every Mom & Dad yelling as loud as they could. A couple of the girls (Izzy included) started crying and lost their desire to play. It occurred to me later usually when Mom and Dads are yelling it's a bad thing needless to say they were gun shy the whole 1st half. What a crazy way to start the season.


After half time they figured it out but I will never forget that 1st kick off and how the girls all kept looking at the parents as if to say stop yelling I'm trying to play!!!!


The team celebrated the successful end of their season with a pizza party at Double Dave's Pizza. Buffet pizza and games.
They all received trophy's and everyone left stuffed!!!










The Starlets and Coach Dan!!!

We are still behind for posting this years events and photos. So these photos pick up from the last event of May this year with Kaitlin going to her 8th grade Dance. It was her 1st formal dance and all her friends were excited.

Kaitlin's cousin Lauren was flying to Thailand on her way to a mission trip for six weeks. She landed just an hour before the dance. She was more than happy to help Kaitlin get ready for the Big Night!!!

With Izzy looking on Kaitlin had a great time being the center of attention trying to make everything just right for her 1st formal dance.

Putting on the final touches!!!

The bracelets that Kaitlin is wearing were a special gift from Lauren that she brought with her to give Kaitlin on her special night. (You are super cool Lauren!)

The final Product was "our little girl is all grown up". Michele volunteered as a chaperone so she was dressed up to go to the dance.

Katy (on the left) Kaitlin and Shelly. These are the girls who live on the street.

Michele drove to the dance separately and Kaitlin rode with her gal-pals from school to the dance driven by one of their moms in a much cooler car than the McCune mini-van.


They all had a ball dancing and being wild 8th graders!!!

Back to L.A.!!!

I was sent to LA in the beginning of May to participate in a media conference for DTS. I was asked by DTS to treat some alumni in the area to a lunch. So I asked the guys from COD if they were hungry!!! They're always hungry.

Pictured from left to right Tom Townsend, Scott Dodson, David Anderson.

All three of these men have built into my spiritual development while Michele and I were in L.A.

Reg Grant and I went up to the Angeles National Forest before we spent the day on the CBS lot NY City street scene.







After my conference at CBS Studio I was able to catch up with my best friend from growing up John and his family Cheri, and their two girls Kay and Laney.

Oh yeah this is me trying to be Cool with a little help from John's Mini Cooper!

After hangin with John and Cheri I raced for a fast vist with our dear friends Lee & Crystal Wigglesworth. You remember them from their 2005 Thanksgiving visit with the Berkmans.

Their sons are all grown up and Tyler enters BIOLA University as a music major and Blake is leading a student prayer group at his Jr. High School.

AWANA!!!

Isabelle finished another year in AWANA. She graduated from being a Cubbie.

Her teacher was Jenni Lin. She had a great year with Mrs. Jenni Lin.