My New Office

New Grace River Pictures

The latest pictures from our worship at Grace River are posted at http://www.observing-grace.blogspot.com/.  Today we had the honor of ordaining two of our pastors, Joey Scott and Derek Donahoe.  We also had a chili cookoff--I didn't win...again.  These last two weeks have been really special.  It's hard to explain but there is excitement that is even beyond what we normally experience.  Grace River is not a dull church to begin with--but recently we have really experienced the empowering of the Spirit among us.  We're drawing new families and drawing closer together as a family.  These are exciting days at Grace River!

Baptism Pictures

You can see pictures from our Independence Day Baptism Service @ www.observing-grace.blogspot.com.

Gem Lake Hike

Our church likes to hike and last Saturday we took our first hike of the summer up to Gem Lake.  It's a fairly easy hike (3 miles roundtrip) to a beautiful rain-filled lake.  Here are some pictures.

Me & Tina

Here is one of my favorite pictures.  This is of Tina and myself the night that I asked her to marry me.  We were both 20.  I took her out to dinner to The Old English Inn in Jackson, Tennessee.  After dinner, we went to our Baptist Student Union meeting at Union University where we were both students.  This picture was taken in the hallway at Union.

The Me I Like to Be...

New Picture...

I've replaced my picture on the blog with a new one that a photographer in our church has taken. Jerry Long has been working on an on-line directory for our church and has done a wonderful job in taking lots of pictures. Jerry does great work and I wanted to give him a little plug by encouraging you to go and take a look at his website http://www.jandklongphotography.com/. You'll find an online store with some great prints including vintage photos of the Beatles that Jerry had the good fortune to take. There are also some beautiful wildlife shots. The picture above is the Samples family. Jerry is available to help your church with a directory if that is something that might be useful to you. He has done a wonderful job for us. You can see some other pictures of our staff at Cornerstone at our church website http://www.windsorcornerstone.org/. Just click on the staff link.