November Update...

Here is a link to our November newsletter: click here

In the newsletter, you'll read about Keynote's annual Vision Dinner. You can read more about the evening of "igniting life change". Praise God with us that He provided almost $80,000 to be raised at the dinner! Those funds will help ensure that Keynote can continue to take the Gospel to the world!

Here is a more recent picture of our nephew, Connor:

It's Been Awhile...

...since we've updated. Woah! We have been working very hard, and God has been blessing us so much! We're at 22.4% right now and still plugging away! Praise Him!

Thank you so much for praying for the missions expo that our church had a couple weekends ago. It was very fruitful and such a blessing to us. We have met many new people who are just as excited about our journey with Keynote as we are! We have been very busy following up with those people during the past two weeks. We have had an appointment almost every night for two weeks!

Some current prayer requests:

*Please be in prayer that we are continually meeting new people who are excited to hear about what God is doing through Keynote.
*Please pray for our strength & endurance. It gets tough at times when we're not
*Please pray for Tony's job situation. The project that he is working on now is coming to a close soon. They are not sure what they are going to have him work on next. It is possible that he may have to do some traveling again.
*Please pray that God is glorified each day as we continue through this ministry partner development process!

On a fun side...
Some friends had a costume party this weekend. It was great to relax and laugh with friends for the evening. Here is a glimpse into the evening:

Yabba Dubba Do!

Straight from the movie, "Juno"...

Kip & some groom...

My favorite from the night.....the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe.

Noise Trade

We were introduced to a new website a few months ago, and it has been neat to see how it has grown since! The site is called Noise Trade. You can download albums from many different artists. The genres range all over the place - from folk to gospel to pop to jazz, etc... To pay for the music, you either tell five friends about the site or you pay the amount you think the album is worth. 90% of the money that you pay for the album goes directly to the artist.

Check it out! While you're there, check out the albums from Matthew Mayfield, Derek Webb, and Alli Rogers. We've enjoyed them!

October Prayer Letter!

Praise God for the beautiful fall weather! :) Thank you for continuing to pray for us on this journey. God is our foundation, and we can feel Him preparing something big real soon.

We're really looking forward to an upcoming "ministry expo" at our church. Details are in this edition of the newsletter. We'd love to see you there with a friend!

Click Here for our October Prayer Letter.

In Him,
-The Utts

Back Online.

Whew, Ike, what a mess! Praise God, our power came back on today! We're so blessed to have great friends - both with and without power. Last night, we went over to a friends' house who had power. We had four families there altogether. We brought the food that was still good out of our fridge and had a smorgusboard of a dinner. Chicken nuggets, tater tots, mac & cheese, turkey, popcorn, etc...

We're praising God for keeping us safe. We're praising Him for keeping our fridge & freezer cold so we didn't lose a lot of food. We're praising Him for community and friends who constantly check up and make sure we're okay.

Keep praying, though, because there are still many people and friends who are without power. The electric companies are working so very hard, but it could be the coming weekend before all the power is restored. Pray that through this whole mess Ike left us with, we can draw closer to our Protector & Provider.

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