Hallie, Lately

This picture was taken before Hallie went to the sitter the last time. I was released from my job a little less than a month ago, so now I'm home with her for the time being.

I've been taking a lot more pictures of Hallie during the day, and here are a few of my favorites.

GCM baseball game.

Family reunion.

She's moving around more, and I'm finding her on the other side of the living room from were I left her.
Hallie loves being outside. The other day she was fussing so I put her by the window, and she thought she was outside. I know it probably won't last long, but it works for now.
This her new cheesy smile. She's so cute.
It gets worse everyday!!

Lynch Family Pictures

Stephanie of 123 Chickadee Photography came and took pictures of the whole Lynch family a few weekends ago. She is a friend of Angie's from work at Golden Gate Seminary. She has a few of the pictures on her BLOG.

We are meeting with Stephanie soon to take some pictures of us. We won the session from friends from Texas State that also know Chris and Angie and Stephanie from Seminary. They are raising money to adopt a child from Ethiopia. Look here.

Missions

I had the title of this post typed and intended to write on the importance of missions and how I long to be doing international missions, but while looking for a specific quote on missions by John Piper, I found this quote. It speaks for itself.

"One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time."
— John Piper

St. Patricks Day

Patrick grew up with his father and grandfather being deacons of a church. At the age of 16 he was kidnapped and enslaved in Ireland for 6 years where he said his faith grew tremendously. When he escaped to his home in Britain, he began studying to become a priest. Later in life he returned as a missionary to Ireland, and it is writen that "he baptized thousands". Later he became known as the patron saint of Ireland.
The holiday is not exactly celebrated the way it was when it first became an Irish holiday, and our family doesn't celebrate it the way most people do in America...
but we did wear green today.

Africa pictures

Philip and I have talked and emailed several times. Things are going well. He has asked for prayer for the people of Senegal that they are speaking to, for attitudes among the group, and for their female translator that they are not sure if she is a Christian. Now here are pictures that I'm just getting from facebook updates.

Sharing the story of Creation to Christ with children. Leading worship through music at the school where the Lee's children go to school. Most students here don't see their parents but once every 2 or 3 months.Playing softball with the students at the school.
Students from Highlands and from the school.
Sharing Creation to Christ in SCHOOLS!!
Tuesday morning the team went to a ropes course called AcroBoabab.
The course is called AcroBoabab because the trees you see behind Kaitlyn are called Boabab trees, and the course is made from them.
The whole group with translators at AcroBoabab.