October 14, 2008

What a weekend! We praise the Lord for safe travels, beautiful weather, and for allowing us to see so many loved ones! Our weekend started with the long 11 hour drive- but with the breath taking views of the changing leaves and laughter in the car-it was so enjoyable!

Though we arrived quite late at the Whitpan's, we enjoyed a late night visit and then headed to get some sleep. While Bill, Miri and I headed off to Eddie and Heather's wedding Friday afternoon-Jonathan and Taylor were getting ready to go to a semi-formal Friday night-honoring Dave Harvey (senior pastor of Covenant Fellowship church)!

The wedding...Eddie is Bill's sister Sherry's oldest son. This wedding was a joy to attend for many reasons. 1.Because we all love Heather and Eddie! 2. Sherry and husband John live in CA- so we rarely see them 3. Bill's parents and all of his siblings were there! Bill's brother- George-who lives in Colorado is a pastor and helped officiate the wedding. Bill's sister Bette and husband Paul came from Atlanta. What a glorious reunion!

Saturday our family headed to my cousin Mike and his wife Jackie's house. It was such a joy to also see my Mom and Aunt Rita there!! We had a delicious cookout and so enjoyed catching up. Miri LOVES her cousins Rachael and Kara and had a blast.

Saturday night we spent the evening with our dear friends...the Farmers- from Covenant Fellowship! We so treasure them and had a wonderful time catching up. I asked Missy to email me the 'Better than Robert Redford' dessert that Jill made that night. I will be sure to pass it on when I get it. It's so yummy!!

Sunday! What a glorious morning to be at Covenant Fellowship! We attended this church before we moved to Charlotte and had the privilege of seeing Dave Harvey become senior pastor. Today Dave was joyfully passing the baton to Jared Mellinger so to enable Dave to serve Sovereign Grace Ministries full time. (He will remain in Philly) It was a joy seeing Bill Patton honored (who was senior pastor when we first joined the church and Alain Redrup (interim pastor). What a surprise it was to also see Mary Brown! Mary was the one who introduced us to Sovereign Grace about 20 years ago! We saw many dear friends and gave much praise to the Lord for how He is working in and thru the precious people at Covenant Fellowship. We will forever consider this church.... home. ~

There is a rule in our family. You cannot leave Philly without having eaten a Philly cheese steak. Okay...it's MY rule :). After church we enjoyed wonderful fellowship (and a cheese steak) with Jocelyn and Kirk Whitpan (our hosts). They are family to us and we love them so dearly!
We then watched the Eagles win!! Yahoo!... took a long walk and then enjoyed our next rule. We MUST play the Mexican Train with the Whitpan's every time we're with them. It was a blast!!
We then packed up and said our sad goodbye's the next morning. We thank the Lord for such dear friends who live to glorify the Lord thru their lives!

We pray you enjoy our little slide show which captures some of our wonderful times...