From last week's church handout, Jillian was in big church with us :-)
How much do I need this stuff?
I am separating my stuff into three boxes: definitely, hopefully, and ...meh
theSHACKfamily Update - August 2013
English in Mexico
A large portion of Shelby's TEFL training class are English teachers from Mexico. Shelby has become close friends with many of them and, after we returned from our training, she wanted to have them over for some pizza and games.
My cuz and his family
We've just returned from an awesome three week training experience with the All Nations organization up in Kansas City and are now having fun hanging out with the Bucks. David Buck is my cousin on my mon's side and he is visiting with his wife, Vicki, and his children Hannah, Dalton, Cole, and Fayth.
Mr. and Mrs. Panxhi!
It was GREAT to be a part of Arsid and Lindsey's wedding. What a great and beautiful couple they are.
Your Goodness, God
I love my friend Seth Haines' new worship song (see video)
Lyrics:
Your loving kindness is sweetness to me
Your grace like the rivers that run to the deep
Your peace stretched wide as eternity
Your goodness, God
Your healing real as the prayers of the saints
Your sympathies rise like the breaking of day
Your temperance gentle as evening rains
Your goodness, God
You aren’t confused by the days of our sorrows
By sorrows you showed us your love
Your mercies are new in the morning, your mercies will come
We rest in the kindness, the grace, and the peace
Of your goodness God
Two Families on the GO
(Left to right) Louis, Bethany, Ken, Esther, Tanja, Shelby, Lily, Robbie, Jillian, Lori, Noel, and Silas!
It was great spending time with our dear friends, Noel and Lori Tugwell, and their great kids, Louis, Lily, Silas and Esther. We had especially sweet prayer time with them as they are about to head off to Haiti in July and, with us in Albania come August, who knows when we will get to see each other this side of a Skype call?
Want to find out more about their ministry?
Click here for their adoption ministry: http://www.thetitustask.com/
Click here for more on their family life: http://www.teamtugwell.com/
Click here for more about their ministry in Haiti: http://outsidethebowl.org/
Shackelford Photo Albums
There is a new section on this site with the heading "Pics". This is where I will be putting our family photos, past and present. The first few albums are:
- Jillian's Birthday
- Easter-2013
- Shelby's 20 Years (a look back at Shelby's 20 years with us, a collection I put together for her 20th Birthday in March of this year).
Click above on "Pics" and then the album you want to see. Some of them might take a while before they display as there are a bunch of thumbnail pics that pop up at first.
...by then it was too late.
Jillian had a blast at Camp War Eagle. It was her first camp experience. Tanja and I and our three eldest kids went to pick her up this past Saturday morning. We had noticed, in some of the pictures we found of her online (like the one here) that her hair was looking progressively messier as the week went on.
When we found her at camp, Tanja asked, "Jillian, did you ever brush your hair this week?"
Jillian, "I tried to do it once, but by then it was too late."
:-)