Dedication

We dedicated both Lena and McKinley at our church (Calvary Chapel Chino Hills) today.  Grandma and Grandpa Orr were there as well as Uncle Ben, Aunt Lindsay, and the cousins.  Pastor Jack Hibbs held Lena and prayed over her while she tried to play fight with him. (yikes!)  McKinley didn't want anything to do with Pastor Jack so I held her and he laid a hand on my shoulder while he prayed.   Kinley kept prying his fingers off of my shoulders like she thought the pastor had no business touching her mom.  The congregation and Pastor Jack got quite a kick out of that.  It was such a quick moment but so special considering the circumstances in how Lena and McKinley came to be born into our family.

Memory Work

This summer Dan and I started working with Lena on memorizing scripture.  Her Sunday school class sends home an age appropriate verse to be memorized each week so I bought a neat looking chalkboard at World Market on clearance and put it up in our dining room.  Each morning during breakfast we practice our verses.  She drew a picture of God to go with our verse.

 They have also been learning "God's Not Dead" by The Newsboys in Sunday school.  I didn't know this until one day it came on the radio while we were driving around town and she began singing with it.