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.