Blatant Advertising

Greetings all. As chair of our church's pastor search committee I am committed to getting the word out anywhere I can. So, I'm posting our pulpit vacancy to all (both?) of you that keep up with this blog in case you want to direct someone our way:

http://www.emmanuelpresbyterian.org/call/


Emmanuel Presbyterian Church is in Franklin, NC. And I'm blatantly trying to up our search results in Google - just in case.

We now return to our regularly scheduled lack of blog posts.

Installed Deacon

Yes, I am now “Deacon-Lee” (har, har). I was elected, ordained (as a deacon – gotta do it again for the different office apparently), and installed. We have a great group of deacons. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed getting to know them. And now, down to business! We have the disadvantage of starting from scratch as there were no deacons in the church at the time we were elected. So, we’re not just going to figure out how to get the mower to start, but how to set some policies on our activities.

It’s times like this that I’m thankful for the connections we have in the Presbyterian form of church government. We can ask our nearby churches in our presbytery about how their deacons work. We’ve also starting making plans for a “field trip” to other churchs’ diaconate meetings to see how they do things.

We also have one of those great problems for a church to have – we’re running short on space in our building for what we want and need to do. And that is a deacon problem.

Stephen update

Stephen recently had his third birthday and is doing very well. He had his checkup this week (his first visit to the dr. since his 2-year checkup!) and is 38.75 in. tall and 37 lbs. Since September, for two mornings a week, Stephen has been attending a little preschool affiliated with a local church. I've been very pleased with that experience as has Stephen. I'm glad that he has part of his routine that will be the same during these days of adjustment.
He is adjusting well, we think. Lee went back to work today, which was a little difficult since Stephen had gotten used to having Daddy around. He has regularly been more clingy with Lee, so this was expected...
It has been so fun watching him grow and learn. I'm still amazed at how much he notices and shows interest in!



Stephen at one of his three birthday parties...



Stephen on his actual birthday.

Lydia Pictures!

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Baby Is Here!!!!

Please welcome Lydia Grace Nickles, a child of the Covenant, into this world.

Some stats:

• born at 12:13 pm
• 8 lbs. 1 oz.
• 20.5 inches
• dark hair
• very beautiful

Kristy is fine, baby is fine. I'm not doing so bad myself.

Stephen had a big smile on his face at seeing his baby sister. When asked what he thought of her, he said: "She's pretty."

I agree.

Pictures are forthcoming - one thing at a time (such as a shower for me!).

We appreciate and continue to desire your prayers for us and Lydia.

On the Way!!

We're on the way to the hospital!!!!!!!!!

We would appreciate your prayers for Kristy and daughter.