Our Sunday

Service was awesome! We had a special service focused around the earthquake in Haiti. Steve Hanson, our pastor of Global Impact Ministries, just got back from Haiti. He was in Haiti before, during, and after the earthquake. Pastor Steve told us what he saw and experienced and did a great job of making us experience it as well. The worship was amazing and whole service was incredibly moving!

It's pretty amazing when you look at the stats: over half a million people are displaced, there is now a generation of young people missing limbs, over 110,000 people dead; imagine if the population of St. Paul just dropped dead, bodies just laying in the streets day after day after day, a huge frontloader scooping up the dead and dumping them into the back of dump truck, all those faces with names, all of those unaccounted people... it's pretty devastating.

Pajjar and I really felt honored to carry the weight of this tragedy with everyone at church and around the world. It was a great experience and completely eye-opening.

Afterwards we went to a buffet with Luke, Blia, Natalie, & Madeline, and dropped off Bruce who came to visit us and do some charity work up here in MN for the weekend. He's living in Chicago and both of us are super jealous about that.

In the afternoon, we went to visit little Taylor who's in the hospital with pneumonia. Peyton was suffering from the same symptoms so when we got there, Anna left to go get Peyton to bring him to the ER. They pretty much admitted him instantly because his breathing was so bad. The bad news is that now both twins (both 8 months old) are in the hospital, I guess the good news is that Taylor is slowly getting better and the whole family is now together in one big hospital room. It was actually a lot of fun hanging out with Cheng, Leng, Anna, and twins. Hopefully they get better soon.

Please continue to pray for Haiti and for Peyton & Taylor. :)