School Begins, A New Routine

This week marks the beginning of a new semester. Dan started his classes, and although it will be busy, he is looking forward to them. We begin our work with the teens in just a couple of weeks. I am still working as Dad's administrative assitant which is a lot of fun. I love the business, well at least the customer part! On Mon-Thurs I teach 28 piano students. There are not many teachers in the Clemson area, so keeping a full schedule has not been hard at all. Dan told me I couldn't take anymore students, so I have had to turn a couple away, which I hate to do, but Dan is right! The Lord has been so good to us!

The soccer outreach at church ended last night. There was a great turn out. The Lord showed His hand even in how He controlled the weather. It was cloudy, which made the temperature very nice, but it never did rain! The bad weather missed us. How grateful I am to see God's hand in all the little details. Lordwilling, we will have some good follow-up opportunities with families from our community as a result of this outreach!

The Month of August

This month has flown by! It is hard to believe summer is coming to an end and school is starting again. Since our last post we have been to Alabama for Jonathan and Brooke Millsap's wedding; Carrie traveled to Philadelphia to be in Becky (Cox) Flegal's wedding; and we traveled to Virginia Beach for a mini-vacation.

One of the highlights of this month was a visit from our Smetana parents! They spoiled us. Mom Smetana gave us a hummingbird feeder, and there are some happy hummingbirds around. We saw five different ones this morning.

So, the month of August is coming to a close. Time to move on to fall. We are looking forward to the upcoming transition at UBC and working with the teens! What a wonderful opportunity God has given us to serve Him. We are so grateful for His leading.

Hopefully we will post some pics of our summer travels before the month of September is over. I think that that is a reasonable goal!