Powerless.

...just a quick update. Good old Ike blew threw Dayton this past Sunday afternoon. Whew - so much wind! Long story short - we're without power. About 200,000 people in Dayton don't have power and 600,000 some a bit south of us are powerless too. Luckily, there are pockets of people who have electricity, and they're taking care of us! The electric companies are saying it could be 2 more days or it could be the weekend before power gets back on. We'd love your prayers!

Everything.

Last weekend I saw a drama performed at two different events. They were a tad different, but essentially the very same message. Both were so very powerful, though. It's just a great, vivid reminder of what Jesus thinks of us.

This video is actually from the original time the skit was done on a Saturday night in 2006 at Winterfest in Knoxville, TN.

Ready. Aim. Fire.

We've had the chance to meet tons of new people while we're sharing about our ministry and developing our support base. We're so blessed to have a bunch of new friends to share life with! Our newest adventure was going to a shooting range with friends, Suzzi & Alex. Tony had a little previous experience shooting with the guard, but not with moving targets! The clay targets go fast!

So...what, uh, am I suppose to do here.

Tony did a great job!

What you don't see is me stumbling back three or so steps after each shot. Pretty powerful. I hit one target, though!

See the rest of the pictures from the afternoon: here.

Back in Ohio!

Tony is back to work today in Ohio. Praise Jesus! He's at a meeting today for info and training for what he is going to be doing for the next two months. It's great to not have to dread the very early Monday mornings anymore! Pray that we come across an abundance of new supporters during this month of September.
-J

Prayer Letter Update

We just finished up our latest edition of our prayer letter. To view the September update, click here.

In the newsletter, we shared about the wrap-up to summer project. We have loved hearing updates from the student bands and sharing stories with you. For you visual ones like myself, a marketing & media intern, Josh, has a clip of a student band on his website. click here to see MangoFish in action while on tour in California this summer.

Also - if you're interested in seeing the short film that the student film team created this summer, click here. The film they made is called "Wreck" and is about five minutes long. They combined their stories with this film to share the Gospel at a variety of short film outreaches this summer.

One more praise - as I type, Tony is driving home from work in Indiana! He is done with that out of town project for work and will be working in the Dayton area for the next couple months! Hurray!

-J

Praising Him!

Work Update
This is the third week that Tony has been working out of town. He's been working in Brazil...well, Brazil, Indiana. It's a three hour drive from our place, due west. He'll have to go out to Brazil next week [luckily it's a short week because of Labor Day], and that is it! After next week, he'll be working back here in Dayton. We're so thankful that God has continually provided for us in this transition time. It is definitely an awkward time. We're praying for monthly supporters to jump on board quickly so we can work on Ministry Partner Development together full time and get over to Indy soon! We just hit 16.1% this weekend.

Praying Specific
This past weekend, I was looking ahead to one appointment we had set up for that evening. I prayed that these people would support us financially somehow, whether monthly or through special gifts. I prayed specifically, though, that we would walk out of that meeting with a check in our hands [being the 1st month's giving or the special gift]. Praise Jesus, we had a great meeting and at the end, we left for home with a check in our hands.

We're working on our next edition of our monthly newsletter...stay tuned!
-J

Story of Stuff & Free Music

We stumbled upon a site recently called "Story of Stuff". It's about 'stuff', how we get it, and what happens to it when we're done with it. Working in the schools the past couple years, I've seen a lot of 'save the planet'/'recycle now' videos and what not. This one is pretty good. It's about 20 minutes to watch online, but I think it's worth it. Post a comment with your thoughts after you watch it. I'd love to hear what you think!

Also...you should go to philwickham.com and download Phil Wickham's new live album, "singalong". It's really great...and it's free! It's pretty much just him and his guitar....and a whole bunch of other people singing in the background.

On the Road with Keynote Summer Project

In our August update letter we talked a bit about what God was doing with the students in the Keynote Summer Project.....well, is officially over now. The project celebration banquet was this past week. God did great things this summer in and through the students! If you’d like to read some of the stories that students sent in throughout their tours, click here.

Growing...growing...

Connor is growing fast! Here are just a few more pictures of the little one...

Just chillin'...

Just snoozin...

Connor with Tony & Randy's Godfather, Jack.

Prayer Letter Update

Hi friends! I cannot believe that August is here. The past few months have flown by so very fast!

Click here for our August update. In the letter, we shared a bit about our new little nephew, Connor Lee. Here are some bonus pictures of the little guy for checking out our website. :)

Proud Uncle Tony

...just checking to see if there's enough going on to warrant completely waking up.