long time no type!! Where to even begin? I don’t even remember what I wrote in my previous blog, so I will just update on what has been going on the last couple of months.
Month of June went whizzing by that I am having a hard time recollecting what happened. I know we celebrated our friends Sam and Shelli’s birthday on the 14th. We went camping with the Roper family on the weekend on the 20th’ish. Camping is very different in WA than in MN….the pine trees are so incredibly tall here that you have to leave the campsite to see if it is even sunny. Where as in MN the tress are short and wide and the sun shines very brightly there. Of course Jeff loves the shade and I like being in the sun rays.
July, my birthday of course and was blessed by so many of you with wonderful phone calls and cards. My amazing husband made teriyaki chicken, rice, vegetables, egg rolls, and cheesecake….all from scratch!! Lovely. Then we went cosmic bowling with a few friends. Last month Jeff was very busy with financial meetings within our church and house churches. As most of you have or will receive a letter/postcard/brochure about all of that. Him and two other ladies went and spoke with each small group about tithing and where our church is at financially. I have just been busy with children’s ministry….in July we had a goal of getting 10 backpacks filled with school supplies to give to families in need in our communities and God gave us 16!!
A huge youth group came from Texas to minister along side of our church, 50 high school students!! We’ve also had two interns help out the last month that had come from Alabama.
Personally within our marriage we have been talking a lot about babies, houses, WA, family. Please lift us up in your prayers regarding the next stages that are coming in our life. That God would bring us into unity in decisions with discernment, wisdom, and faith in everything we do. We have been learning a lot about where God has us at and the beauty and difficulties in everything! Praise God that He is just, faithful, and forever loving.
This coming week we will be near London, Canada for our friends’ Josh and Becky’s wedding. Tuesday evening to Sunday. Jeff will be his best man and is excited to be in a wedding…usually I am in the wedding party and Jeff has to tag along : ).
We love you all and thank you for all your support and prayers!!
Love, Kari
Hello Kari Jo and Jeff – Was nice to read the updated blog. Grandma Peterson was wondering if I had read it as of today (Tuesday August 10th) and I had not – she said – oh you better there is talk of babies! Ha. I figured if there was a major announcement Dad and I might get to know first along with Jeff’s parents – but curiousity killed the cat- so I got the computer ASAP! Lord willing – you will get answers to your prayer requests soon.
NIce to hear about the backpacks being filled with goodies from donations – I’m sure many students will be blessed by that!
Good to hear the church is moving forward!
Off to help with VBS – crafts (if you can imagine that). I said last night that I wish my daughter was there to help – I tried to make animal out of molding clay – needless to say since the kids are learning about Noah and Ark – we have a lot of snakes on board. It was fun.
Love you both a ton – God’s continued blessings! Mom