The Linzey Team

Just a week ago, our family had the privilege of being a part of a small country church's VBS in Arkansas for the last evening. One of the sessions for the 3rd through 7th grade class was focused on Creation and how dinosaurs came about… and how they disappeared. At the beginning of the lesson they showed a video clip of an old English legend in which St. George rescued a princess from a dragon (dinosaur). According to the version of the legend that we heard, St. George refused any gift, but instead won the whole kingdom to Christ. This inspired a poem Elisabeth wrote this past week. We hope it will be an encouragement and reminder of the great love Christ has for His bride. "Rescued" The story is told of a village of old Inhabited by a king and his realm. The town was at peace, yet fear did increase For nearby a fierce dragon would roam. "To this terrible creature," folks asked the good teacher, "What offering to subdue should we give?...

We Remodeled our Kitchen!!! It has been in desperate need of redoing for a couple years now and the Lord provided the funds for us to finally do something about it! Even though it is still on the small side, we feel like we have added a few square feet of workspace in the kitchen and it is positively affecting the whole house! We thank the Lord for the McDowell family and their ever-so-wonderful help as it would have taken us a lot longer to accomplish the remodeling process were it not for their skill and availability!  Here are a few pictures of before, during and after the remodeling procedure :) It was quite the experience, but it was very well worth the days of no kitchen, doing dishes outside, drinking from the bath tub, Elisabeth and I digging through piles of dishes in our bedroom to find serving utensils and sleeping in the living room because of our beds being used as cabinets, chaos and excitement all at the same time, and a trip in the middle of it all! But we ...

Friday saw us heading toward Arkansas for a quick, but enjoyable trip of surprising some folks at a little, old country church for their last day of VBS! We had a wonderful time of fun and fellowship. Saturday we went canoeing at Flint Ridge, a place where Papa made many boyhood memories. A few friends were able to join us and we all had a blast!  Riding on the bus from the office to the river           Getting set up to head out We all divided up into teams of two and launched to paddle around for a little bit until Papa joined us after taking the youngsters on a short ride. Papa and Joshua ready to join the rest of the clan already out on the water When Papa left, Joanna and Caleb took over and did a fabulous job of manning the canoe by themselves around the area that Mama and the little ones stayed to swim and wade. Daniel (pictured on left) thoroughly enjoyed experiencing the water!...