Dear children...

"...Let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth."

Thank you to our CF family for demonstrating 1 John 3:18 to us! More than the gifts, the tremendous outpouring of time and energy in preparing a bash and the interest have been such a blessing. Our church family demonstrated to us this past Wed. night what the relationship between a church and a pastor ought to be about - mutual love! It was amazing looking out and seeing the various people whom God has given me the privilege to love and serve. It actually made me speechless...(I know, I can't believe it either.)

More than that, I can understand Paul's love for the Philippians in Chapt. 1, and how he must have had the desire to serve and love them in the best way he knows how - by showing them Christ. I want so badly to teach well so that these families whom I love would have the best thing in the world - Christ. It's funny because I feel a lot of the same things towards my wife and my forthcoming son.

I only pray that I would love Christ more and that my knowledge and understanding of His majesty would deepen in order that I might make Him clearer and more beautiful to my family, both Sarah and baby and CF.

Thank you for loving us!!!