This Saturday, April 28th, at 7:00 we will be having a memorial service for Owen. It will be held at Hatcher Memorial Baptist Church. They have been so kind to our church over the years in moments when our facilities downtown were not adequate…and in Christ, they are family.
I’ll post more soon. Thank you for […]

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It feels as if there is an eternity between now and Owen’s birthday; yet, if we blink it will be here. We’ll be meeting our sweet boy as a result of a c-section scheduled for 9:00 Tuesday morning. As the time approaches, I thought some of you might wish to better understand Owen’s medical diagnosis.
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Me. My. I.
As a pastor and a father it is easy to get focused on things being “others centered�. I am always asking myself, “how do I communicate these riches in Christ in a way that people will see them and cherish them?� “How do I get my son to see the value other people?�
It’s […]

I know this is Robert’s posting ground, but he welcomed my intrusion. There is much I’d like to say that feels worthy of sharing, but the most pressing thing I wish to communicate to each of you is our deepest and sincerest gratitude.
We know many of you ached for some way to help alleviate the […]

Friday morning Erin and I learned that our doctors would like for her to deliver Owen on Tuesday, April 24th.
That came as quite a shock! We were uncomfortably prepared for an early May delivery…a good 3-4 weeks away. But the team at MCV has decided that the best medical chance for Owen is a delivery […]

In case you were wondering, a whiffle ball will leave a decent little mark on your skin…or at least the facial skin of a 23 month old.
It was time for the glorious tradition of a boy’s first plastic baseball bat and whiffle ball. It’s a day no father can forget…the triumph, the glory, the bruises […]

In recent years storms, especially hurricanes, have made headline news. I lived through a hurricane years ago (hurricane Hugo) that destroyed the Carolinas and my hometown of Charlotte. I experienced several massive tropical storms while living in Miami and the Florida Keys. Most recently, we survived Gaston, which left most of Richmond, including our car, […]