Children

On August 19, 1999 my oldest child was born. It was one of the most amazing days of my life as I experienced love at first sight, and that love continues to deepen every day. My wife and I decided to wait until that day to discover the gender of our first child and had chosen a name if the baby was a boy, but we struggled to come up with a girl name. After much debate we decided that we should give her a name that meant something...so we named our daughter Hope because we felt her generation needed hope.

Little did my wife and I know that this name would become prophetic in our lives. As we desire our children to represent hope, so we are surrounded by children whose lives border on hopelessness...but I am encouraged, and I will share more in my blog as the week goes on except to say, this is our Youth Revival week and it is a concentrated window of hope. Many will tell you that hope lies in an education, money or success. I tell you that hope lies in Jesus Christ, and in Christ alone so please pray for our children this week, pray that Christ will live in their hearts, pray that hope in Christ drives their lives and, if this happens, they will spread hope to others.

Many Blessings.