When Summer Comes

Do you remember when you were a kid in school, and summer meant relaxing?  Well, I rarely find that the case anymore. This summer, our family has quite a few things on the agenda.

  The first thing coming up for us is Vacation Bible School/ Missions Conference at our home church. This involves four hours and about 700 people in our church gym and classrooms singing, doing cheers, playing games, winning prizes, and hearing God's Word. If you've never been a part of or seen a VBS before, check out our previous post about it  http://lolinministry.blogspot.com/2017/06/well-its-vbs-week-at-our-home-church.html . That's how we'll spend our morning all week and then we'll spend our evenings seeing different missions presentations and hearing messages from different missionaries. It's a great week, but relaxing is not part of this week.

  The week after VBS, we're going to a wedding in North Carolina. 

These two are tying the knot and I'm gaining another sister!😊 I still can't believe that my little brother is old enough to be getting married. So that's gonna be a great time, but weddings don't usually involve a lot of relaxing either.

  The week right after the wedding, is my husband's ordination. I'm very excited, but also nervous for him! I'm just glad it's the men and not the women who have to go through it! Because of his ordination, we're going to have quite a bit of family coming in town. Since there will be so many of the family members here, we're also going to have a birthday party for our little guy that weekend as well.

Nothing like cramming it all in in a few days!

  The next week is our little guys actual birthday, and then our best friends leave for Brazil. Not that that really has anything to do with us, but it's an event in our summer!

   Sometime after that, but before August 14th we will be having a yard sale. Amidst all of those summer events, we will be packing up our lives into suitcases. Side note that has nothing to do with any of this, but I purchased school material for my kids today. None of which are even old enough to be in school, but we have to have it to take with us to the field. It was a little on the sad side. ☹️☹️ Anyways, then on August 14, we are on a plane to Brazil! It's gonna be a crazy summer, but who needs relaxation anyways??