God has blessed us with the exciting news that we are going to have a new little George join our family. This is very exciting yet scarey at the same time becusae we are venturing into being outnumbered territory! So far the pregnancy has gone well. Pray for Melissa as she is VERY tired and having to face all day sickness. Hopefully this will pass in the next few weeks. We have neer had an ultrasound this early with either of our other two children. But, here is our first picture of this baby at only 7 weeks. We are now 9 weeks.

Also pray for Melissa as she has committed to directing our district Children's camp in Meblourne in September and this is a HUGE time commitment. Please pray that God would give her the energy and time to be able to direct this camp to the best of her ability. It will be just her and one other lady, as it is during our district conference that goes for three days. So, we will only have the children 7 hours a day. But, pray that Melissa will know how to plan this whole event.

Makayla turned 5!

Our little girl is 5. Hard to believe. We have been blessed with her joyfull presence for the last 5 years. She is spontaneous, outgoing, full of laughter, always smiling, and the sweetest thing we know. And, she is God's little girl. She loves Jesus with her whole heart and loves to tell the world. For her birthday this year, we decided to invite all the girls from her class, since we have been encouraging her all year to make friends, we felt it was only right to invite all her friends. So, she decided to have a princess party, which was fine with us. She dressed up thanks to Grandma Wilday as Cinderella, and she had a day full of fun.

August 10th, the 3rd church in Perth, Australia was officially started. A pastor named Tony has come from Melbourne who is a Tongan pastor and is starting a church plant south of the City. There were probably 100 people in attendance as people from our other two churches also attended. But, there were probably atleast 40 Tongan people there which is very exciting! This church is not only going to be reaching Tongan's but it will also be a multicultural church plant. Please pray for Pastor Tony and his family as the venture to fulfill what God has called them to do. They had a beautifull worship team that sang in english and in their native tongue. The teens and worship team also did some "action songs" to some music and it was beautifull!

August 3, 2008
Was an exciting day to look forward to where our church is headed. Chris preached on vision for our church, and we had a wonderfull time of fellowship after the service. We even had a new couple ( from NZ) in our midst on that evening. After the serice we had pizza and we got down to business with the D.S.. Our church is so willing to do whatever God has called them to. Since I was the treasurer for the last year, because NO ONE would do it, I had to give a vision to the church with the D.S. help of the church stepping up to take a big step of faith. We have paid all of our bills for the past three years. But, the church has yet to start to take on any responsibility of paying a pastor. So, praise God! A decision was made to start to put away a PAstor's salary of one day a week, so that the church hopefully by the end of our next career term. (4 years!) would be able to afford a pastor full time! This is a huge step of faith. There were definitely some concerns. It means the church would need to bring in 2x as mush tithe as it did last year. But, you know what! Our God is good! And, our God is bigger than any of the problems we face. And, our people know that, so they have taken a leap of faith! Many other things exciting happened as well. One of our church members has answered God's all on her life to be a chaplain in the public school system. So, now she is going to start classes to become a lay minister! God is good, and our church is ready to look forward to the future of what HE holds for the Landsdale Community Wesleyan Methodist Church.