G'day - how are all our favorite people doing this week? I trust this finds you well...
We have had two relatively uneventful weeks... work, hangin with students, some play (movies, golf etc.) and another couple weeks of Ultimate Frisbee... Good times!
The highlight recently was without a doubt having Jamie's parents (Dennis & Gwen Jackson) come and stay with us for a couple of days. We had a BLAST!!! It was so fun to have them come and hang out with us and catch a glimpse of what our life is like here in Indianapolis! We jammed tons of stuff into a couple of short days during their stay including visiting a couple of Churches, coffeeshops, and an evening out at an Indians game (Indianapolis' AAA-league baseball team) until the game was called due to a significant thunder and lightning storm... Good times!
Well, that's almost all there is to share, however we would really appreciate your prayers for this coming week. Clint leaves on Monday next week for IGNITE Youth Camp (www.ignitecamp.com) with our students... This should be an amazing time of growing closer to God and really being challenged to the core of our being. Please pray that God might use this time to really capture the hearts and lives of our young people... We are excited to see all that God does - check back in 2 weeks for some updated pics! Due to camp next week, we won't be able to leave a written post, but be sure to check back for an audio update... we'll be able to leave a voice message for you to listen to right from your computer.
Have a BLESSED week - we love you all!
Clint & Jamie
Monday, July 19, 2004
Monday, July 05, 2004
... a "good" tired
Good Morning from Indianapolis! The weather here has been really great this past week... beautiful sunny days, warm enough without being overly hot... if only we had a beach it would have been perfect - oh well!
So, we celebrated our anniversary and had a really great evening out to dinner at an amazing seafood restaurant before going to a movie and then back home to just relax and be together... (sorry folks - we forgot to take pictures). IT WAS A BLAST!!! We had a great time over dinner re-living and discussing some of our most memorable moments shared as a couple from this past year... always fun! We both left feeling totally overwhelmed by God's goodness, faithfulness and blessing in our lives - extremely grateful!
The rest of the week was spent working for Clint and Jamie finished out her "Training Shifts" at Applebees. Thursday afternoon we left and headed up to Spring Lake, MI where Clint had several meetings in preparation for our up-coming Youth Camp as well as just being able to connect and catch-up with family. Clint had the amazing privilege of re-connecting with Lex Akers who was one of his pastor's back in Australia before moving over here to the USA. Lex has been a significant mentor and influencer in Clint's life for many years now and they had a really special time of just catching up and talking about God & Life together...
Upon returning home to Indy, we found two messages waiting on our answering machine which were returned phone calls from places where Jamie applied to work... both wanting an interview. Please pray with us that we would follow God's leading and guidance through this process - that we would know where HE desires for Jamie to work...
We celebrated the 4th of July (Independence Day) with friends here at the Church finishing the evening watching fireworks together in a park downtown Zionsville and then migrated back to Brad & Jayne Bak's home (our worship & arts pastor & wife) where we set off our own fireworks... GOOD TIMES!!! Highly illegal back in Australia I understand, however I have noticed that over here people really don't understand what the Law is on fireworks - it's different in every state! One thing that is well understood is that it doesn't REALLY matter where you are, on July 4th the "Law" will turn a blind-eye... WHAT(???)
Anyway, we have both been feeling rather tired lately and Clint has actually been slightly sick (lost his voice) over the past few days. We both agree that it is probably due to exhaustion and a crazy schedule over the past month... but we both agree that it is definitely a "good" tired!
Clint & Jamie
So, we celebrated our anniversary and had a really great evening out to dinner at an amazing seafood restaurant before going to a movie and then back home to just relax and be together... (sorry folks - we forgot to take pictures). IT WAS A BLAST!!! We had a great time over dinner re-living and discussing some of our most memorable moments shared as a couple from this past year... always fun! We both left feeling totally overwhelmed by God's goodness, faithfulness and blessing in our lives - extremely grateful!
The rest of the week was spent working for Clint and Jamie finished out her "Training Shifts" at Applebees. Thursday afternoon we left and headed up to Spring Lake, MI where Clint had several meetings in preparation for our up-coming Youth Camp as well as just being able to connect and catch-up with family. Clint had the amazing privilege of re-connecting with Lex Akers who was one of his pastor's back in Australia before moving over here to the USA. Lex has been a significant mentor and influencer in Clint's life for many years now and they had a really special time of just catching up and talking about God & Life together...
Upon returning home to Indy, we found two messages waiting on our answering machine which were returned phone calls from places where Jamie applied to work... both wanting an interview. Please pray with us that we would follow God's leading and guidance through this process - that we would know where HE desires for Jamie to work...
We celebrated the 4th of July (Independence Day) with friends here at the Church finishing the evening watching fireworks together in a park downtown Zionsville and then migrated back to Brad & Jayne Bak's home (our worship & arts pastor & wife) where we set off our own fireworks... GOOD TIMES!!! Highly illegal back in Australia I understand, however I have noticed that over here people really don't understand what the Law is on fireworks - it's different in every state! One thing that is well understood is that it doesn't REALLY matter where you are, on July 4th the "Law" will turn a blind-eye... WHAT(???)
Anyway, we have both been feeling rather tired lately and Clint has actually been slightly sick (lost his voice) over the past few days. We both agree that it is probably due to exhaustion and a crazy schedule over the past month... but we both agree that it is definitely a "good" tired!
Clint & Jamie