Our Spring Photo

This is one of the pictures we took today, for our Graduation Program, less than 1 hour before our two sons competed in some Field Day related events.

Field Day, an intramural competition of track and field events, is structured a little different this year. Mr P, the Academy principal, has the running events spread out over several days and some far in advance of the actual Field Day. Today Elijah, some of his classmates, along with RJ and some of his classmates all had the chance to run the 1500 meters.

There are records for Field Day events which can be broken. These records are divided into age bracket for each event. Elijah ran against three other boys, while RJ ran against only one other. Both of the boys achieved their personal best times in today's event. It was an exciting time rooting them on while they were running. RJ came from behind and beat the older guy he was racing with by a VERY close 00:00:25 - to everyone's cheers. Neither of these guys broke the record for their bracket. Elijah came from 3rd place into 2nd on the 3rd lap and passed the leader of the race around 150 meters from the finish. The race to the line was very close after that but Elijah finished 00:02:18 ahead of his friend. The other two boys in their group finished close on their heels all of them under record time! What an exciting time all the timekeepers and spectators had cheering on the racers to the finish. After finishing, the racers temporarily collapsed, but each was helped up by congratulating onlookers.

I thank the Lord and am so glad that we had the afternoon off from campus ministry today. This break from normal routine afforded me an opportunity to celebrate with my sons some precious memories we'll share for a lifetime.

Thank you for your prayers for us. We are so grateful the Lord has us on your minds. We have so much to be thankful for, daily and right now I just want you to know how much your prayers mean to us. We could never be at this point in our lives without your prayer support and encouragement. We thank God every time we remember you, too.

This evening we will have our last, BIG, school-wide, picnic extravaganza. Everyone will be out by the big ponds sharing a meal, maybe some volleyball, and stories of what God is doing in our lives as we draw to a close on this chapter of our journey. We'll try to have some pictures to follow, later.