~HEATHER'S HIGHLIGHTS~: ~IHC 2021, The Great Smoky Mountains, & Christopher asked Kimberly to be his girlfriend!~

Saturday, May 1, 2021

~IHC 2021, The Great Smoky Mountains, & Christopher asked Kimberly to be his girlfriend!~

Well, Hello there!

Life has been such a:

Wonderful Whirlwind of activity that we still are wondering if we are waking from a Whimsical Dream.

We are loving life, in the midst of our running like crazy. :-)

First off, as my post below said, Josh and Sarah got engaged! :-)

They are planning for a beautiful September wedding, so we are eating, sleeping and dreaming Happy wedding plans!

So exciting!!! <3

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Jesus met with us and gave us a WONDERFUL IHC!! We were so excited that we could meet together again to have IHC!!!!

I have loved IHC since I was a tiny girl! Before God called us to move to AZ to Pastor, back in 1999, I had only missed 3 IHCs in my life. One of them was because of a snow storm that hit and we could not make it.

When I was a little girl I would rather have IHC than have Christmas. :-)

God's Sweet Presence was so close during the services.

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And, last but not LEAST,

Christopher Kline asked Kimberly to be his girlfriend on

April 23rd! <3

~I am a busy homeschooling Mommy trying to help our children finish up this school year. Spring music recitals included.

Abigail will graduate from Kindergarten soon.

~Phillip in staying busy keeping in contact with our people on the fields.

Each Sunday Phillip has a zoom phone call where he preaches in Spanish to several contacts in Colombia.

He videos that service, and then edits that and puts in on line to edify others, who are wanting to draw closer to Jesus.

Your prayers for these Church meetings mean A LOT!!!

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So, without further ado, here are lots of fun pics!!!

~IHC 2021 in Gatlinburg, TN~

~The Burlington Bible Church helped a lot with the Registration at IHC. Sarah joined them.~

~Kelsey, Abigail, Klarissa, and Mary.~

~Dear Dad Sankey.~

(We are not really kin! But, I started attending his school when I was 11, and we became great friends back then. Then, his daughter Vonnie, married my brother Andrew, so I just call him, "Dad Sankey." :-)

~It has been a long standing tradition with my Bryan family to take food and eat in our hotel room during IHC.

So, that is what we did this year. I went to Sam's and got an assortment of yummy foods and drinks and brought my crockpot and made yummy meals. Here are Chris and little Abigail.

It was so fun to have Christopher with us!!!~

~Crazy Uncle Carson meeting Chris for the first time and teasing him.~

~What IHC is all about!!

PRAISING JESUS!!!!!

TOGETHER!!!~

~AND WONDERFUL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP!!~

~It was so fun to have "our other daughter RaeQuelle with us.~

~I was so glad that dear Ms. Nellie could come this year!!~

~And Thrilled to have my Brother Andrew and his wife Vonnie there too.~

~At CPYC last January, Noah got one of Andrew Durst's ties.

Here he is wearing it.

Phillip, Andrew D. and Noah.~

~RaeQuelle brought this yummy pasta salad to contribute to our yummy food.~

~James Plank honoring R. B. Kuhn for playing the piano for like 35 years at IHC.

(R.B. Kuhn used to be my piano teacher when I was 11 and 12.)

~It was so wonderful to see God move among us, and see people getting closer to Jesus at the altar.~

~Andrew D. giving away prizes during Time of Discovery.~

~Phillip, Josh, and Chris helping people pray around the altar.~

~Chapel of the Children.~

~Enjoying some Melton coffee samples. We bought some too.~

~Our hotel.~

~Abigail and her sweet friend Kelsey.~

~Our kids were asked to sing during Time of Discovery on Thursday AM.

Jesus helped us.~

~Family Photos!~

We asked Brittany Fogleman,

one of our favorite photographers,

if she had time to do a quick family shoot with us.

We wanted one more family photo,

before we start adding more fun family members to our clan. :-)

~As always, Brittany Fogleman did a GREAT JOB!!~

~We asked Sarah's Josh to join us for a few too.~

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~Wrapping up IHC 2021, and packing everything away.

~The GREAT Smoky Mountains!~

~We were so glad it worked out for us to get to meet up with Uncle Dan and Esther while we were in TN.~

~My Sweet Cuz, Esther!~

~Uncle Dan, Myself, and Abigail wearing hats and being silly.~

~This is the first time I have been back in TN, since Aunt Carole went to Heaven.

HOW WE MISS HER!!!!~

~Our family, minus Sarah and Josh, who were with the Stampers.~

~Our family and Chris.~

~Phillip and Chris thought it would be funny to back Kimberly's tiny car up to our trailer like she was going to try to pull it. :-D

She put a caption on it like,

"WHEN A GIRL PACKS FOR IHC!":-D ~

~GOD'S COUNTRY!!!~

I moved to TN when I was only 6 months and lived there until I was 11.

So, TN holds a dear spot in my heart!!!!

~Noah long-boarding through Cades Cove.~

~Christopher Kline asks Kimberly

to be

his Girlfriend!~

Chris and Kimberly met back in Sept. 2019. From then on, Kimberly watched Chris from a distance and we prayed that if it were God's will for Chris to be in Kimberly's life,

that God would make it happen.

(I think Chris had noticed her too.

;-)

So, none of our family was surprised when God picked Kimberly up off of our front porch and moved her to work at the Salisbury, NC school and attend the same church where Chris attends.

:-)

It is so wonderful to watch God work His will out in your children's lives!

We are so happy with Sarah's Josh and Kimberly's Chris.