What it's all about

We love our church!  We love everything about our church.  We are so thankful that we made the decision as a family to look for a new church home after Gavin was born and for the last (almost) 2 years we have been abundantly blessed by great teachings, awesome ministries, and some wonderful, Godly friends!  

We joined a small group a little over a year ago and immediately had 8 TRUE friends!  This weekend we're having a "child dedication" for the 3 kids at one of the couples homes, the Lutz family.  They have been working very hard the past few weeks getting their yard and flower beds looking good!  Last week at group, they expressed a need for time and energy to get it all finished and were hoping it could be done before they had lots of visitors coming over.  We could tell this was weighing heavy on their hearts so, our group decided to help them out.  We all showed up at their home Monday night with shovels, gloves, and lots of tools ready to work.  Within an hour and a half we had finished everything.  There wasn't a single weed left, a dead branch anywhere, and even their palm trees got a trimming.  It was amazing to watch everyone throw themselves into this project with willing hearts!  Our church always talks about how your small group should be your 2am friends-- friends you can call at any time in any situation and they will be there.  Obviously, this wasn't a dire situation, however, we saw the need and wanted to serve them and be a blessing.  That's what Jesus did-- he served the people!  

We had a great time with all of our friends and loved getting to spend time together!  We really are going to miss these people!  Of course, when I remembered I wanted to take pictures, it was when all of us girls were taking a break, so there's no evidence of us "working", but trust me, we did!  Check out the Lutz's blog and see the after pics of us relaxing as well as what was collected from their backyard!   

We brought Gavin who played and ran around the entire time.  He was a little obsessed with all the sharp tools laying around-- thankfully, everyone had an eye on him and would take them away from him.  He had a grand ole time just moving from one flower bed to another watching what everyone was doing and helping out where he could!  He's too cute!