When someone hasn't updated their blog since April, you can almost always assume life is either going great, crazy, both in the best way ever, and or that they have been incredibly busy. That's been us. Hence, the picture of us in an orange VW bus coming out of a wall... crazy.

We travelled to Oklahoma in May to raise financial support and increase our prayer team. When we got there, so did a huge tornado which devastated many in the Moore, Norman and Oklahoma City area. Christian helped Acts of Mercy International coordinate their relief efforts through Antioch Norman. What a blessing for him to get to step in and lead teams, coordinate outreach, and be a part of God's sweet plan for Moore, Oklahoma. You can learn more about Acts of Mercy on their website: http://actsofmercyonline.co.uk.

We extended our trip and didn't arrive home until June. Between disaster relief, support raising, a baby shower, and family time - blogging went out the window.



We returned home to Portland in early June, the Door's intern moved in with us and we hit the ground running with community outreach, events, and a strategy planning meeting.

In July, we moved into a house, had a college team from Waco come up, some friends temporarily move in (pictured above left), more strategy meetings, community events, and so much more. It could not have been more full of LIFE. Really, truly full of life.

Now it is August - more to come on all this later!