Bragging rights....

I have added two new links to my blog and your visits are well worth your time. Of course we are proud our two kids and their spouses (we love very much) and all their accomplishments, in this post I will talk about Matt and Mel (Melissa).

Michelle and I rarely "publicly" brag on our children but today we want to brag a little, if you don't mind. We are extremely proud of both Matthew who is now 27 years young and Melissa (Mel) who is 26. Their kindness to others and love for God and His creation has profoundly shaped them in ways to numerous to mention here. They have accomplished so much in their young lives. I personally believe their generation is being used by God to change the world as they live their lives with passion for Him.

Mel Barlow (our daughter) has an extremely creative eye (gift) for capturing the moment(s) in her specialized field of wedding photo documentary. Click on the link below and then go to "Mel Barlow Photography" and then to "interview" to see into her life. Her business is based out of California and New York and she travels worldwide as you will see in her work. Even as I write Mel is in the Philippines where she just photographed a spectacular wedding day. Feel free to visit Mel Barlow for a look into her world.

Matt Carder is on staff at Union Chapel United Methodist Church (a Christ family of great influence in Muncie, Indiana), and has an extremely creative gift for effectively communicating the Word of God in the "logos" (the truth) and the "rhema" (revelation of the Holy Spirit). Please feel free to visit Union Chapel and click on "sermons" and scroll for Matt Carder and have a look into his professional and spiritual passion.

We really feel that the prayers of God's people are being answered in their lives. Throughout our ministry our greatest prayer was that our kids would not get spiritually hardened like so many PK's and MK's around the world. In spite of my putting the church first "madness" at times, God protected their hearts.

As you can see we are very proud of what God has done and continues to do in the lives of Matt & Elizabeth as well as Matt & Mel Barlow. I now ask you, my worldwide friends to pray for them. Please also pray for "preacher and missionary kids" and their families as they endure the kind of hardships Paul the apostle spoke of.