Where am I?
We had our annual Thanksgiving dinner at our church the Sycamore Tree this past Sunday. There was a huge crowd so we were standing in line to get our food. Along the way is a wall with pictures of all the baptisms that have been done in our church since it was planted. I’m standing with Anna, David, and Bennett and looking at all of these people who have become followers of Jesus. Bennett sees Anna’s baptism picture and our whole family in the river with her. We keep looking and see Courtney’s baptism picture but it’s just me and Georgia in the river with her. Bennett says...
Read More2010 Family Update
Well, dang ya’ll it’s about time!It’s been quite a past year for us here at the Vaughn household. We’ve been through quite a bit with our children, with our finances, with our extended family, you name it. Faithfully though God has stood by us and continues to bring us through these times. Our children are such a blessing to us and we love watching them grow and mature, helping them with struggles – David with learning, Bennett with his behavior, Stephanie with her school, boyfriends, job drama; Courtney with her high school teachers (it’s like a prison), and Anna with ?...
Read MoreKid Faith
So I last wrote about being depressed and now I’m writing about something joyful. It seems to go like that these days – periods of blah and periods of joy and glee. This was an email exchange that I wrote first to Katie Logan our Youth Director and long-time close friend of the family. I wrote to Katie to encourage her in what she is doing with our children. I told her of a discussion at the dinner table around helping the children in Africa and the letters that our children had written to them with Katie’s help. Next is the email…So this happened last night at the dinner...
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How time flies – it’s been almost a year since I’ve written any thoughts down; strange. As wonderful as the past three years has been with out expanded family it’s also been very hard. I’m not sure if it’s coming off the mountain top of international adoption and then the next year adding onto our house or if it’s just general doldrums. Georgia and I have both been in a rut for the past year it seems. I took a week of vacation this summer and we literally did nothing. I’m not sure what was in my mind except just inertia. I’m not even sure what I was feeling. The...
Read MoreSpecial prayers for Latvia
So today the coolest thing happened in church. We were going through the normal routine of arriving at church early in our family bus aka. the suburban. All seven of us coming marching through the back door of the church and pick a spot to lay all of our stuff down. We make the children sit and behave in somewhat close proximity to the stage and preferably me (Barry) as the boys seem to behave better when we’re up on stage in the band if they’re sitting directly in front of their father. I guess it’s the healthy fear that I instill in them that brings them into compliance. As...
Read MoreMy Family
So this is another really cool thing that happened this week. Every week on Wednesday night at our church is prayer time. We get together and pray for everything and anything to do with our church family. In fact the Sycamore Tree (our church) bases all of its decisions through the mechanism and outcome of prayer.Anyway, we were at prayer and those of us there were sharing about answered prayers, prayer concerns, ect. – Jeff Wadley, our preacher asked me saying “Do you know what your children said the other day during children’s church”? He said the subject was about things...
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