Our ninth child… we are excited to welcome her into our family. Her name has a profound meaning to us. We hope it encourages you as you read about it. In the fall of 2020 we lost her older sister. We grieved Sky Philia Iverson and the life she never got to live. The months […]

This week was his five month birthday. A birthday I do not take for granted. We almost lost his little life as the doctors pushed and maneuvered his breech little body into place so that he could be delivered naturally. If you want to hear a story of how God rallied His people all over […]

This post, first scribbled out in journal (in October, when this sunset picture was taken!) was ready to be posted last year, but just as these ponderings speak to the concept of images of what we expect life to be like verses what life is, one could not anticipate the turn of events that would […]

    This weekend we celebrated the nineteen year anniversary of her departure from this world and her beckoning into the next.  And what a way to remember and rejoice in her life, but with the newness of her eleventh grandchild and her widowed husband bustling about, helping care for seven of them, just the […]

We have all been there. Stuck in a rut. Asking, “Why am I like this?!?” “Why do I keep doing this?” This summer I was asking these questions and feeling powerless to get out of the rut.  And I have found that we can rack our brains, and read our books and attend our counseling, […]

One could write (or read) a manual on church planting and ministry. There are plenty of good ones out there. But here we are telling the journey of a church planting family (and yes, this is a family endeavor) with play by play accounts of the road less travelled that we walk upon. A husband […]

“A discerning man keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.” Prov. 17:24 ~~~~ They got a little more than they bargained for when they put the sign out.   “Kids Eat Free Monday Nights”   One of the few local restaurants in the Lexington area, where we […]