Happy Birthday to Katharina and Julie~~ Our Campus Daughters

Psalm 71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

We had all ten of our campus daughters over for Sunday dinner and celebrated the two February birthdays in the group~~ Senior Katharina and Freshman Julie. It was a lot of fun. Here is a picture of our lovely birthday girls:



Here is a Godtube link to see and hear the girls sing "Happy Birthday" to their campus sisters. You will need to copy and paste it into your browser for a quick view:
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=904f649391a1669b7b45

Jennifer and Julie stayed over until evening church service time and made apple pies for their guys. They were real cute making their homemade pies. Here are a few pics:

Missions Conference Kick-Off

Mark 13:10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations.

Our 2008 Missions Conference started on Sunday morning and goes through Wednesday night. It is always a moving opening service when our International Students march in behind the flags for their countries and many of them wearing their native dress and our church choir singing "May We Be a Shining Light to the Nations." I slipped into our sanctuary to watch the International students practice marching in. Our campus daughter, Katharina from Canada, was in the Parade of Nations and I made her picture as well as some other students I was able to talk to for a minute after they practiced and before we all headed to our respective Sunday School classes. Here are some of the pics of students that I made with the first one being that of Katharina, our Canadian campus daughter: (Please be sure to double-click the pics so you can see the beauty of the native dress the students are wearing.)





As the students marched in, our church choir was singing this song.

Song For the Nations

(May We Be a Shining Light)

Chris Christensen

May we be a shining light to the nations
A shining light to the peoples of the earth
Till the whole world sees the glory of Your name
May Your pure light shine through us

May we bring a word of hope to thenations
A word of life to the peoples of the earth
Till the whole world knows there's salvation through Your name
May Your mercy flow through us

May we be a healing balm to the nations
A healing balm to the peoples of the earth
Till the whole world knows the power of Your name
May Your healing flow through us

May we sing a song of joy to the nations
A song of praise to the peoples of the earth
Till the whole world rings with the praises of Your name
May Your song be sung through us

May Your kingdom come to the nations
Your will be done in the peoples of the earth
Till the whole world knows that Jesus Christ is Lord
May Your kingdom come in us
May Your kingdom come in us
May Your kingdom come on earth