Blessings upon blessings...

The "grand" part of our family will go from 2 in 2014 to 4 in 2015!!!  Two our our four children will have their first child this year.  We are so blessed...

A simple man serving a great God and the local pastor of Stillwater Community Chapel (stillwater-chapel.org). We are in our 39th year of full time ministry. God directed us to this local body of believers on the Western Range of the Rockies to grow with them in mission and mindedness of Christ.

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