Weekend Review

Tricia and I had a great weekend. On Friday night, her friend from Sumter, Diana Lyles, came up to spend the day with us on Saturday. We had a great time at the Lake Robinson community day, which included Tricia and Diana going out in kayaks. Keller and I followed in a canoe. It was the first ever Lake Robinson community day and a great day for environmental awareness, local business booths and some food and bluegrass music. Keller and I even walked home because he went for a swim after the boat ride.

We then took Diana downtown for a tour to include the Mast General store and Falls Park. She had a great time and you can see some pictures in the link below. After Diana left on Saturday evening, Tricia and I went for a date at Copper River. Wow! That Apple Cobbler was huge and so good. Tricia looked amazing in a black dress and actually had to dress up :-) It was a fun date to celebrate the end of the summer and the beginning of a new school year. Tricia wants to be positive and we are thankful for her job and what it provides our family. She does a wonderful job too and we proud!

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On Sunday morning, Tricia and I went to Capstone Church down in Anderson. Our good friend, David Barfield is now the senior pastor and we wanted to be there to help celebrate their first worship in their new building. They had a similar situation to Freedom Fellowship, in that an older church donated the land and building for Capstone. Capstone had been meeting in a movie theater! It was an amazing service and we were thrilled to also witness 6 baptisms, including Miss Anna Barfield, Dave and Caroline's 8 year daughter. Jesus Rocks! Dave was also the camp pastor at Camp McCall this year when Dylan and I were there in July. Miles and Jacob (their son) were also in the same cabin. Dave was the coaching pastor at Alice Drive in Sumter and is a fine Clemson graduate too! It was such an honor to be there yesterday and we look forward to visiting there again to see what God is doing. I also heard a super cool song that will work so good with our Africa mission trip and well, really, any time. Lyrics posted from "The Solution" below. This was the closing song at their service yesterday.

We then headed down to Irmo to pick up the boys at Susan's place. Miles and Dylan were at "Nanny Camp" all week with Mom and Pete. They had a ton of fun on the farm; but, we were happy to see them again. Tricia and I also took advantage of the "coupleness" and hit Fatz Cafe in Clinton for a great lunch! We thought about you Kathy on your birthday too!

Miles went to his very first church youth event last night. It was a swimming/shaving cream fight party and he almost won an Xbox in the "back busters" contest. He came in second and walked away with the 2nd place prize, a red back! He was proud of his war scars. I hope his Mom lets him go back to other functions (wink, wink).

Tricia is off to school and I need to get started. I am covering all week while one of the consultants is on a well-deserved vacation. Pray for us as we prepare for Africa next week (can't believe it's almost here!). Also, pray for my Dad's brother, David. He had a heart attack yesterday and is in the hospital in Columbia. More on that as I find out.

See ya!

The Solution

HillSong United

To stare not fight while broken nations dream
Open up our eyes, so blind
That we might find the mercy for the need

Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey now
As we hold to our confession

It is not too far a cry
Too much to try to help the least of these
Politics will not decide if we should rise
And be your hands and feet

Singing...
Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey now
As we hold to our confession

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet
Yeah Yeah

Higher than our circumstance
You promised and you loved for all to see
Higher than our protest lines and dollar signs
Your love is all we need

Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey now
As we hold to our confession

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet
Whoa Yeah

Only you can mend the broken heart
And cause the blind to see
You erase complete, the sinner's past
And set the captives free

Only you can take the widow's cry
And cause the heart to see
Be the Father to the fatherless
Our Saviour and our King

We will be your hands
We will be your feet
We run this race for the least of these
In the darkest place we will be your light,
We will you light

We will be your hands
We will be your feet
We run this race for the least of these
In the darkest place we will be your light,
We will you light

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet

We will run
We will run

We will run with the solution

We will be your hands
We will be your feet
We run this race for the least of these
In the darkest place we will be your light,
We will you light we´ll sing