Hope Continually -- Psalm 71:14

Here is the recap for last week...still catching up! :)  This was Sunday evening service at Lancaster Baptist Church.    After church, we tried a new place - The Habit Burger Grill.  It was a good place - I do wish I would have tried the sweet potato fries. :)  We had dinner with our friends - Jon and Jami McConkey who pastor in North Carolina. On Monday, we drove to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.  It was a great place and we really enjoyed it.   After the Aquarium, we took a stroll on the boardwalk.  Beautiful but windy!  My husband and I like to try new hole-in-the wall places so we checked out a place recommended by Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives called Schooner or Later.  It was yummy!  I got a chicken pita and sweet potato fries and my husband got a crab sandwich and fries.  We ate on the patio overlooking the water.   That evening was the first service o...

Every Friday @ 12:30pm (CST), you can hear a weekly challenge from me on Faith Music Radio.  My podcast is called Posted by Rebekah. You can listen online HERE  or download the free app for your smartphone.  I would love for you to join us, listen and take the challenge! Tune in any time of the day to Faith Music Radio for uplifting Christian music and talk.  Here is today's podcast in blog post form. :) Sunday night, we were coming home from church...my husband and I were chatting about the day's events. In the back of the van, the girls were playing and talking. Sierra was pretending that her lip gloss was a princess and she was talking for her "lip gloss princess". She was talking to Addie's lip gloss who was the "prince" and this is what she said...  "Stop! I am trying to fall in love with you!"  My husband and I burst out laughing. You never know what kids will say!  But often, kids can teach you valuable lessons thr...

Tuesday was the first day of our first Junior Camp that our church put on.  We don't have any Junior Camps that are close for our kids so our children's pastor and his wife decided to hold our own.   Our camp was located at Davis Creek Park in the foothills of the Sierras between Reno and Carson City. It was a beautiful spot on the top of the hill among the pine trees.  Minus the hike up the stairs - up and down, up and down!  I might never recover! :) My girls and I and the Moore family were the first to arrive.  We got to work carrying everything up the hill and setting up camp and tents.  Michael was such a big help and I want to say thank you for all he did this week to help and make it happen!  Soon the other workers and campers begin to arrive.  We had hamburgers for dinner then chapel service, singing around the fire with Bro. Josh and his guitar and s'mores.  Summer and I came home Tuesday night and I had ...

Happy Anniversary to my love of 14 years!   My husband and I knew each other in Bible college.  I was a senior - he was a freshman. :)  We worked in the same ministry - the Chicago bus ministry.  We picked up kids and families and brought them to church on Sundays.  BTW...The BEST place to find a spouse is to find someone serving God.   The captain of his route, Marco Lariviere, told him he should ask me out.  He did for a ministry party at Connie's Pizza - downtown Chicago.  Our first date was January 23, 1999. That night, he was typical Eric - life of the party - making everyone laugh.  I have always loved his ability to make me laugh but as a senior in college - that isn't all I was looking for in a guy.  After the party, we got back to campus and we sat and talked.  He told me about himself and his desire to be a youth pastor after graduation. It was then that I said to myself, This guy is going to do wa...

Here I am...two weeks behind on my weekly updates.  I have been away from home quite a bit and don't have a portable laptop so I better get with it now that I have a minute to sit while the laundry is going. :) And just as I typed that, the dryer went off!  LOL!  I am a daily laundry kind of person so having to catch up of a week of laundry after a trip is not my style. Tuesday, I spent a little time in my garden.  I harvested a big bowl of lettuce in which we made taco salads for dinner. :)  Yum! Summer helped me do the fertilizer to the plants. Then it was piano lessons at 1pm...early dinner and clean-up...a softball game for Sierra.  The skies were SO stormy...we really thought we were going to get dumped on!   I left from the game and headed for my Tuesday night shift...and bam!  Lots of rain!   Wednesdays are a little slower for me.  I don't get home until 8:30am and it seems like my mornings are...