1623 Pierre!

We're moving to 1623 Pierre on November 15th, 2007 (pending the finances work out smoothly). Come visit us. There's room for you...

My li'l brother's gotta goat!

Daniel and Emily hanging out at her new place. Can you believe it. My little brother now has a goat. Awesome! Mine's bigger though...

Dany on the Didj

Here's my didjeridoo teacher at our Bastille Day Bash. Dany's from France. Enjoy the sounds!

Xenos Summer Institute

I think Xenos means "foreigner" in Greek. So this church is going for "hospitality" when they use the word. At any rate, Maris and I are headed to this conference with others from New Hope next week. We have been thinking a great deal about our small group and the idea of a house church. I have so many thoughts on this issue. I hope to be able to write more at some point. In the meantime you can definitely check out the Xenos Summer Institute.

Cardboard Buns!

Be careful about what you eat! Check this out:
Cardboard Buns

"Flood" by Jars of Clay

Here's part of a review session for our Int'l Bible Class. We just finished studying the flood (God's judgment of the entire earth during the time of Noah). This song is about the personal floods that happen in our lives. It's a great song. Unfortunately we don't have the whole thing here so you will miss the encouraging part of the song. Many families in Kansas have recently been devastatingly flooded. May God pull us all through our floods as we look to Him (if you're not looking to Him then perhaps you should start). Enjoy the vocals of Chad and the guitar and background vocals of myself. (By the way, I'm really chewing my gum. Must be good!)

Sarah Jorosz singing Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"

You gotta hear the original to appreciate this fully. I'm working on my own arrangement. Peace!

Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2007

Here's Crooked Still playing "Dark Hollow" at Elks Park in Telluride, CO. More to come. Perhaps you'll be inspired to enjoy more bluegrass. Keep in mind of course that creativity in humans is an indicator of the Creator God. So as you listen maybe you'll be able to worship the Living God.

Terry Von Deaver

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Happy Father's Day! Check out the card we sent my wonderful father, Terry. I have one memory of my dad that I'd like to share today. One day I was at a Chadron, NE high school football game. I think that's what it was. I was pretty young. There were two drunk and obnoxious guys sitting behind us. Many people had asked them to quiet down. They were even spitting on some people. I remember they were pretty big guys. I was scared of them and it seemed others were too. We needed a hero in that moment. So my dad turned around and said something to the affect of, "Hey guys! Give me those bottles and get out of here!" Needless to say, I was proud to be his son that day and am proud this day as well. Oh yeah, I should mention that those guys handed the bottles over and scrammed.

Ad the Rockstar

This is my good friend Ad. He's such a good musician but he's way too modest. We need to get him on the big stage somehow.