More Easter Pics

Here are some pictures from the Easter Egg hunt at Uncle Brian and Soon to be Aunt Amy's house. I attached this letter that was sent in to our pastor from a lady that Brandon had been given her name to do some work. I add it because it is easy to get caught up in life and forget how you are impacting people with just simple encounters. It's amazing how so many people touched this woman's life and brought her back to church. This is really what brought us to this church, and we have been amazed by the generosity of the whole church to give so much of themselves to really impact the community. This has really inspired me to really focus on every encounter I have with people knowing most encounters don't end up with this type of result but you never know exactly how it will affect the person.

Hi,

I just returned home from my first service at your Nashville campus and just wanted to tell you how incredibly awesome I thought it was.

It has been over 30 years since I last attended church services and was a bit nervous and unsure about attending. But everyone I spoke with was so genuinely nice and welcoming I instantly felt right at home.

I learned of your church when I was getting an estimate on fixing my rotted bathroom floor. Brandon was the gentleman that came and called me back in a few days telling me his church group would come and do the repairs for nothing. I was, of course, skeptical and an army of workers showed up and did many other things besides the floor. I was in awe and shock that so many people would show up to a perfect strangers home and help like they did. They invited me to attend and I said I would think about it.

I was recanting my story to a gentleman I have dealings with at work, Jason, and found out he was an elder there. I felt it was too much of a coincidence and that God was telling me I needed to come.

My husband of 32 years unexpectedly passed away last year and my life seemed to be at rock bottom for quite some time. Then I started renewing my relationship with God and things have started to fall in place for me. I am totally relearning who I am and how to live again and the journey has been hard, but amazing.

I was so touched by your service, more so than I had thought possible.I look forward to attending next week.

Thank you so much!!

Kristil

Easter

Our Easter this year was so much fun with both the boys being at such a fun age to really enjoy it. Our house was full of little Cash's voice yelling "Jesus is Alive!" while throwing his hand up in the air and Parkes repeating "Jesus really did die on the cross. The Bible is real not like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (or insert whatever movie he is thinking of at the time)." Our church adds two services Saturday night on Easter to make room for visitors on Sunday so we went that night so we could all sleep in and enjoy Easter morning. Ironically for having all my parents here and now Brandon's mom here too they were all out of town and we enjoyed a quiet morning with just our family before heading off to church to work the nursery and off to Uncle Brian's for an Easter egg hunt and lunch (which the computer was acting up so those pictures will follow later). But here's some pics from saturday and sunday.