July 7th - Moving up to EVOLVE (middle school) at Newsong!

So on Sunday, July 7, 2013 Emily moves up to the Middle School Group at Newsong. So long Noah's Place! Hello to a fun and exciting time with Pastor Mike Park at Newsong! This is a YouTube clip that he posted for the kids to see and what they have to look forward to! Such a wonderful guy!!!

I'm so excited that EMILY is excited about being in Evolve at Newsong. Praying that she grows more, makes some amazing lasting church friends too!

College Group family

Today was the first day with these amazing group of college students who are going to come over every 2 weeks to have dinner together and just "do life".
Tonight Jimmy and Elinore were great to make the entree - Italian gravy- for dinner. We ate, laughed, shared, and ate some more. Jim and Elinore have one don name Jacob who is 13 years old! Great kid! He was doing origami with Emily and even helped her with math homework!!!
I think that we are going to benefit from bring connected with the 10 great guys and gals. What I am grateful for is that Emily as well as Jacob will have very cool and wonderful role models as their aunts and uncles!
Here are few pics taken by Jacob and Emily tonight:

Everyone in panoramic shot


Steven lying on the bear footstool



Yo steven!







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David's Mission Trip to Tijuana, Mexico

David went to Tijuana, Mexico with group of men & some of the boys from Newsong to build a home for a family in Tijuana. He left with the guys on Friday evening and returned home late Saturday due to the super long Border Crossing. Here are some pictures that David took from his trip.

The Newsong men met at Costco in Tijuana where the local guy guided them to the location. Apparently the people who live up in the hills are considered the "poor" people because they are so far away from the convenience of stores and restaurants. And so if you own the land, you can purchase a home like this for about $3000.00.

The border crossing took about 2-3 hours. Then another 2 - 2 1/2 hours to get to Irvine.
All 20 of them went to Arirang Korean Restaurant around 9:00PM for dinner. You know they were HUNGRY!

Here are some pictures of where they went.

This is where all the guys slept

Pastor Ed Salas and his son Trenton

The boys hanging out

David had 5 of the local tacos. No stomach problem! whew!

Josiah and his buddy

The dudes

Singing praise songs

Singing, laughing. Some of the guys look tired

Hanju always leading praise

Locals told the guys to park their cars inside the gate overnight.

This is the land that resident owned and where a house would be built

materials brought

House being erected

2 homes for the family - parents, kids, grandparents

Taking a break

This is the house

This is their house