Tim Schmoyer // Husband to Dana, father to Hannah, youth pastor, blogger at http://www.studentministry.org
Hannah learned to talk by the age of 10 weeks old and her first words are to the grandparents. :)
(If you wanna know how Dana and I did this, keep your eye on studentministry.org. It's so easy.)
Last night I saw Charlie Hall tweet about a good show he did in St. Cloud, Minnesota, right down the road from me! Wish I had known he was coming because I always enjoyed worshipping with him in a smaller, intimate settings at Irving Bible Church in TX back in the early 2000s and then at Falls Creek camp in OK with the youth group I led during seminary.
As a tribute to missing the show, here's a little video of my old youth group goofing around at Falls Creek in 2003. We went around and asked a lot of different people to read different "lists" just because we were bored, and one of the lucky candidates was Charlie Hall. Sorry, Charlie! Hope this doesn't haunt you 6 years later! :)Yup, it started snowing tonight. Feels a bit early for snow, but oh well. Hannah wasn't too impressed.
I watched this teen girl's testimony on YouTube and enjoyed her enthusiasm and passion for the Lord. It was recorded earlier this summer.
Then I watched this video and realized that the fears she mentioned in her testimony started becoming a reality around August.
Here's a CBN news report that goes into more detail.
A little further research online indicates that the trial is scheduled for October 27 in Ohio, although she currently lives with foster parents in Florida. She also apparently has received death threats from Muslim groups in other countries, especially Italy.
This girl surely inspires me. If she's willing to stand up against her family in Jesus name when renouncing Him could provide safety and make all this go away, I have no excuse for not bringing God up in conversations. This is pretty cool to see, especially from a 17 year old.
My youth group is in the middle of a 5 week series on evangelism. Tonight we talked about sharing our "faith stories" (testimonies) and I used these videos tonight and others to give examples of what a testimony is and about sharing it even when we're afraid of "persecution." But I tell you what, we have such a weak view of persecution compared to Rifqa Bary. We are sometimes way too comfortable and passive in the USA.
He was chattering like crazy until I hit record on my iMac. Then she gave a little smile and quickly switched to fussy mode. Oh well.
Dana shot and made this little video of Hannah Love. There's some pretty fun clips of her toppling over onto her side about half-way through and a little smile at the end. :)
Hannah was a pretty happy baby this morning when she finished eating breakfast. Dana used her cell phone to shoot some quick clips of her smiling.
For some reason her head looks like a really big oval in this video. I assure you, it's not really that big! lolHad a great evening yesterday with Dana! Someone in our church volunteered to babysit Hannah, so we dropped her off with a sitter for the first time ever and spent the evening together. We first went out to eat and then went bowling while eating a Dairy Queen Billiard.
I love you, Dana! :)
Dana made this video of little Hannah Love last week. Again, it's definitely a video only grandparents will watch in its entirety. :)
A couple weeks ago Bob Stromberg did a comedy concert at our church. Afterwards I was able to catch him to shoot a quick video on "Crafting the art of storytelling." Thanks to my brother, Mark, for filming it, and to Bob for taking the time to invest into us youth workers!
