"a big meeting and a reunion of friends"
Friday, June 13, 2008 Filed in: daily photos
| my life
so, today was a
long-awaited day for a few reasons.
first, this morning was our meeting with the people from David C. Cook publishing. Michelle has been talking with them for a bit about them publishing some of our stuff. well, last month she went out to meet with them in Colorado and it couldn’t have gone better. they want to partner with us to create their new curriculum and focus. today, we got to meet with Janet from Cook and hear about some of the details. to sum it up, it was AMAZING. they actually want to send a team of writers to live in California and work with us. we’d be providing the vision and feedback as they write the curriculum. i mean... this is huge.
at the beginning of the meeting, Janet was explaining what they were wanting to do (team up with a church, etc...). however, she was being very vague about whether or not they’d decided it was us or if they were still looking. so, Michelle finally asked the question, “so, are you courting us or are you asking us to marry you?” this picture is of Janet in her response to that question. she immediately got down on one knee and we all started laughing.
needless to say, we were (and are) all very excited about what this means for us. it’s gonna be pretty freakin’ amazing!
the second thing that made today a day worth waiting for, was that today was our “formerly friends” reunion at my place.
David and Angela Robles (and their little girl, Rylee), Jennifer Stowell, Melissa Kirscher, Kit and Gina Rae, Dana Van Egdom (her husband Jeff couldn’t make it), Stacy and i all got together for the first time since my birthday last year (September 9th, if you were wondering). it was so great to catch up and find out what everyone’s been up to. it’s amazing to see how God is using us all in different, but awesome ways all over California and the world.
tonight, we ate, caught up, played, ate, swam, ate and talked about what an amazing group of friends God brought together and how we need to be intentional about/open to how God might use us together in the future. it was a great night and i don’t remember the last time i laughed so hard!
first, this morning was our meeting with the people from David C. Cook publishing. Michelle has been talking with them for a bit about them publishing some of our stuff. well, last month she went out to meet with them in Colorado and it couldn’t have gone better. they want to partner with us to create their new curriculum and focus. today, we got to meet with Janet from Cook and hear about some of the details. to sum it up, it was AMAZING. they actually want to send a team of writers to live in California and work with us. we’d be providing the vision and feedback as they write the curriculum. i mean... this is huge.
at the beginning of the meeting, Janet was explaining what they were wanting to do (team up with a church, etc...). however, she was being very vague about whether or not they’d decided it was us or if they were still looking. so, Michelle finally asked the question, “so, are you courting us or are you asking us to marry you?” this picture is of Janet in her response to that question. she immediately got down on one knee and we all started laughing.
needless to say, we were (and are) all very excited about what this means for us. it’s gonna be pretty freakin’ amazing!
the second thing that made today a day worth waiting for, was that today was our “formerly friends” reunion at my place.
David and Angela Robles (and their little girl, Rylee), Jennifer Stowell, Melissa Kirscher, Kit and Gina Rae, Dana Van Egdom (her husband Jeff couldn’t make it), Stacy and i all got together for the first time since my birthday last year (September 9th, if you were wondering). it was so great to catch up and find out what everyone’s been up to. it’s amazing to see how God is using us all in different, but awesome ways all over California and the world.
tonight, we ate, caught up, played, ate, swam, ate and talked about what an amazing group of friends God brought together and how we need to be intentional about/open to how God might use us together in the future. it was a great night and i don’t remember the last time i laughed so hard!