The Journey of a Family Striving to Live Dangerously Surrendered!


"Surrendering means that we have come to the end of our independence from him, our reliance on self-sufficiency, and our insistence that we don’t need him. Surrender to God changes everything! Why add the word dangerous to surrender? Because we don’t surrender to a benevolent but impotent grandfatherly figure; we surrender to Almighty God —the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. C. S. Lewis’s character Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia depicts God as a magnificent lion —good, but certainly not safe. Surrendering your life to God is the boldest and riskiest step you can take. Being dangerously surrendered to God allows you to know him in increasingly deeper ways and to participate fully in his will. " ~Kay Warren

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Kids in Leadership Training!


Our children have loved music their entire lives. They are, by no means prodigies, but they love God and love music. Bethany plays the keyboard and sings, Brooklyn plays the guitar and sings, and Caleb plays the drums...and can sing. They are hoping their new siblings can learn the bass and sing!




The three used to call themselves 3 Strands, but after finding that there would be more kids in the family decided to rename the band. The new name...Tesfay, an Amharic name meaning, "My Hope".



The kids wanted to take some group shots for Tesfay, so we dressed up and headed for one of the rare places in our town that has trees! Here are a couple of pictures we took from that fun day.

We will be doing a "Night of Worship" for a fund raiser coming up and Tesfay will be a part of the ministry. I will include a clip of them ministering soon.
Remember, as we tell our kids....fan into flame the gifts God gave you. Whatever God put deep within your spirit to do or be, nurture it until it grows into a raging fire, unable to be quenched, changing the world around you!


Blessings!

Kurt and JoLynn

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