First church - as in our first church we attended as a married couple!
On January 14, 2001, eight days after we were married, we walked across the street from our brand new one bedroom apartment to Parkway Baptist Church in College Station, Texas. This was a crossroads in our marriage (though only 8 days old) and in our relationship with God. Parkway was where we were forced to decide - are we going to be part-time Christians, or are we going to commit our WHOLE lives to serving God? We learned at Parkway about how to minister to others, how to share our faith, and how to avoid the perils of church softball teams. ;)
Parkway is where Blu was FIRST told by someone (Pastor Chris) "I see a call on your life from God." This opened our eyes to the fact that maybe God did want to use us, and we had to decide if we would allow Him to.
Parkway has consistently supported us in our mission efforts in Zambia, and it was awesome to speak there this past weekend!
Another first - New Day's first "mission team" consisted of Steve and Josh Duncan back in April of 2010! They camped in a two man tent out on the land when there was nothing except for 2 boreholes! Our kids especially bonded with Josh and were so happy to be reunited with him!
Blu & Josh
Steve & Kathy Duncan have been our mentors since they taught our newly married Sunday School class in 2001! Baby Zach, their sixth little one, is SO cute!
Here's the Duncan 6 kids, plus our 3! They easily added us into their family's mix as we stayed Saturday night with them!
Remember these pretty faces?? Lyndsey & Allison spent 3 weeks with us at New Day this past summer! It was great to see them again!
Our kids loved playing with Adam & Lyndsey's boy, Truitt, while us adults played a card game..of course :)
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