New Activities and New Friends!

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As you can see over the last few months we have all started new activities! Emmi is enjoying ballet, John and Levi are doing great in salon soccer (a court style soccer), Luke and Russell are both working on tennis, and Wendy is running and doing pilates. It has been a great addition to our weekly home school schedule!

It has also helped us all develop new friends! I have really enjoyed getting to know my tennis instructor and his wife. Wendy has met several of the moms who's daughters dance with Emmi and all the children have made new friends in their classes.

Before we began our new activities, we talked as a family about the opportunity and decided that we thought God would like for us to not only exercise and learn new sports, but more importantly He would like for us to be examples of His great love and ambassadors of His truth! Pray for us that we would always remember this and count it a privilege to be Christ's representatives where ever we are.

"So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." - 1 Corinthians 5:16-21 NIV