Friday was so fun with XYC

First Friday is our youth led Life Group we hold it on the First Friday of the month and since this is just the second meeting since we starting holding them again we held it at our place, we had an awesome turn out. We had 14 youth show up on a Friday night!!!

We are in a great season with XYC right now- the best we have ever had. We have a great group of supportive parents, respectful youth and teenagers who have a desire to learn about God but also as important, they are friendly to each other. They all talk and respect each other and you can see God moving in their lives.

We are really enjoying XYC right now...Scott and I are having the best time.

At First friday one of the youth shared her testimony and how God changed her life and all that she had gone through while she was away from God and it was sooooo powerful. That then started a discussion and youth from the youngest to the oldest got involved in the conversation.

I love moments like this when we see fruit in the lives of these youth and we see them spur each other on live for God.... I am just so honored that the Lord would call Scott and I to these amazing youth! I am excited to see all that this generation is going to do for God....

(Yay, and an old girl like me gets to be a part of it too :)

(during the bible study time)

(Playing a very loud game of Pictionary)

(Playing SPOONS with forks, XYC loves this game)

(Pastor Scott goofing with Chelsea)

(Everyone loves Scott, can you see why- he is so fun to be with)

Have a wonderfully blessed day!

-missa

Family Fun and living an answered prayer

I am so excited to have my mom close by again :) Okay so lets be honest she is not “that”close because it is still a 6 hour drive for us to her house and home again but that beats 18 hours any day... not only did she live 9 hours away but it was 9 hours of driving through west texas where there is nothing to look at during the road trip. Unless of course you went on a windy day you’d be lucky to see a tumbleweed cross the road occasionally :0 haha. Actually my former youth Pastor used to say:

“It is so flat here you can sit on your back porch and watch your dog run away for 3 days“.

Anyways, back to my story,

I am so excited to have my mom so close and for the first time in many many many years we were able to spend a birthday with her!!! Yesterday we woke up and drove to Granbury and spent the day with my mom, my sister and my my sisters family.

We celebrated 2 birthdays: my moms and Jojo’s (can you believe he turned 14!, Where does the time go? :( )

This time together was a reminder of God answering prayers... I prayed for my mom to move for years and years and there we sat, eating birthday cake in the middle of answered prayer -> Her home.

After the festivities as I was driving home, Scott fell asleep so I turned on some worship music and I was thinking about how rough 2009 was for us... in all of our years of marriage 2009 was an extremely hard year...not in our marriage but just life in general, we encountered alot of trials in 09'!

But then I refocused and I begin to think about all the ways God has already moved on our behalf this year and I am humbled and in awe, so I drove and I sang my heart out to an amazing God whom I love so much!

(Scotts gonna have a bubba soon! - He crawled into Scott's shirt)

(We all let our hair down for some goofy fun)

(Cineca and Tia - do you like our hair? She loves silly pictures.)

(Me and my sweetheart! - I ADORE mu hubby! He not only embraces my sillyness, he joins in the fun, he's my AMAZING man)

(We had 2 B-day cakes! JoJo turned 14! and my mom, well she is 4-ever young!)

This is the song I was listening to when I began to think about last year and this year so far, hope you enjoy it- it brought me to tears.... there are not enough words to describe how much I love my God.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

-missa