To those who are new here: My hubby and I served as missionaries in Ukraine for ten years. Two years ago, the Lord brought us back to the USA to take the Missions Department at Golden State Baptist College. Missions runs deeply through our veins, and is the heartbeat of our family and ministry. My hubby is a third-generation missionary and is a perfect fit for his role.
The only requirement given to me for this blog hop is to tell you 5 fun or interesting facts about myself, and then to send you to the next blog. So, let's go!
1. I have the awesome privilege of speaking in two conferences in the next two months. The first one will be here in our home church in a little more than a week (just one session), and the second one will be somewhere that my eight-year-old daughter Brianna and I will be flying to. I won't say where we are going just yet, because I want to create some sort of suspense here just to make it fun!
2. My current favorite extra-curricular activity of the week is teaching "The Missionary's Wife" to 28 college ladies every Thursday. I love being able to transfer what God has taught me {and is still teaching me} to the precious group of ladies He has put me over this semester.
3. I have been surpassed in height, weight, shoe size, and hand size of my firstborn son who is only 12 years old! Is that supposed to happen this early on?! By the way, his shoe size is already bigger than his daddy's too. I think we are rearing the Jolly Green Giant (and he loves it!)
4. I bought myself a Costco card with my recent Christmas money. We are a family of seven, and most people were surprised to find out we have never shopped at this money-saving warehouse of bulk items. For fun, I have challenged myself to try to ONLY buy my groceries and housing needs from Costco, to see how the savings add up for awhile. My choices are more limited there, and I have had to order a few things online from Amazon, but so far so good. The biggest change I have noticed is how much more meat we now enjoy. Hmmm.... I wonder if that has anything to do with #3?
5. Our family of seven lives in a home that is 1,207 square feet (which is considered small in the USA), and I wouldn't have it any other way. I love knowing where everyone is and what everyone is doing most of the time. I also feel great satisfaction when all of us (except the one-year-old) can clean the whole house so quickly because of its smaller size. Can't beat that!
Now, onto the real fun...
Now you get to visit Anne Williams, missionary's wife to the people groups of Burma. Her blog is new to me as well, so let's get to know her together! Click here for Anne's blog, and to learn five things about her too. http://annehammond.blogspot.com/2015/03/things-you-might-not-know.html
To start at the very beginning of this blog hop, start by clicking here: Baptist Missionary Women
