If You Give Your Two-year-old a Piece of Toast

If you decide to make yourself a piece of toast, your two-year-old will want one too. And if you give him a piece of toast he will ask you to put peanut butter on it. And if you put peanut butter on it he will want you to cut it into four triangles. When you sit down to eat your toast and drink your coffee he will realize he is thirsty. He will ask you for some of your coffee and juice. You will get him his own cup of juice and tell him your coffee is still too hot (whether or not it is bc you really don't want to share a single drop). He will nibble the toast up to the very edge of the apparently inedible crust getting peanut butter all over his chubby cheeks. You will sit down to finally drink your coffee and he will announce that he is all done. He will want you to get him a napkin. You will need to wipe his face for him. Then your five-year-old will decide he is hungry as well. After you get your middle child something to eat you will sit down again to enjoy your breakfast. Your two-year-old then climbs into your lap. He spots your toast and announces that he is still hungry. And chances are if he eats your peanut butter toast, he will want your coffee to go with it. It is way-too-cold to enjoy now anyways and so you let him.

Please Pray!

Tomorrow is the Collegiate Navigators National Day of Prayer.  Please take a moment to:

a.Watch this video.
b. Pray for students across the country to know Jesus' love for them.
c. Share this video with someone else who would also be willing to pray.

Thanks so much!  

New Family Pics

Brought to you by Jon Sprang, Blue Iris Photography.  Thanks Jon for some great pictures!  FYI -  if you live in/the area - the Sprang's are raising money for their international adoption - why not update your album and help give a little one a home?!

February Prayer Update

And now a word from hubby....

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your interest in and prayers for our ministry work.  We couldn't keep going without you.

First of all a praise-in our December newsletter we shared our financial need to finish the year and start this one in sound financial shape.  God is faithful, and our need was completely met!  Thanks to all of you who gave and prayed for this need.

Joshua Team
Every spring we do a six-week training time called Joshua team.  When God called Joshua to take over for Moses, He repeatedly told Joshua to be 'strong and courageous'.  The goal of the Joshua Team is to help students be strong in their walks with God and courageous in sharing their faith with others.  23 students are taking part this Spring, and last week they started spiritual pizza parties.  They invite their friends and neighbors for free pizza provided they bring a question about God, the Bible, or Christianity.  They went great and the students were all encouraged.  This week they will do it again, but at the end ask if anyone would want to continue but read through the Gospel of John and seeing what Jesus claimed about himself.

Please pray for the students doing the Joshua Team:  Taylor, Jonathan, David, Hannah, James, Erica, Amir, Danielle, Bethany, Brittany, Alyssa, Allyson, Kirstin, Josh, Layne, Emylee, Kyla, Keeley, Robert, Ben, Justin, Amour, and Evan.

Also, next week we will begin surveys on campus that lead into a gospel presentation.  Please pray for boldness and that we would proclaim the gospel clearly.

“REST-room” (what I secretly fantasize about while watching my kids play at the local museum)

"REST-room"

   A new exhibit at the Children's Museum in local Brookings, SD will open early next summer. Ecstatic moms can barely contain themselves. "It's just what this town needs!" says one local Brookings mother of three. Up until now the museum has kept the new exhibit upstairs hush-hush. And "Hush Hush" are just the right words to describe it. The new room is built for peace and quiet!

   A state-of-the-art soundproof napping room will provide local moms a much needed respite. The exhibit offers fifteen minutes of silence for over stimulated moms while museum staff watches their children. This wonderful exhibit is only open to members and the daily time slots are filled on a first come, first serve basis. 

    When you enter the room your body immediately begins to relax as you inhale soft lavender scents. The screaming, wet chaos of the water room disappears into the background as you levitate into the cozy, dry silence. Five comfy private bedrooms, low lighting and fresh linens all make moms want to jump up and down and scream "Yippee!" But no screaming is aloud anywhere near this room, even with the sound proof walls. You can, however, sigh as loud as you want as you slip into the silk pajamas provided for an extra cost.

   Finally children will no longer have to beg their moms to take them to the museum; moms will beg them to go! Projected membership sales have already tripled with the recent announcement of the "REST-room" and the museum board is more than thrilled with this expected outcome. Moms can be sneaky about their naps too –only telling their children (or hubbies) they need to go to the "restroom." 

    When asked what prompted the museum to offer this new exhibit the staff were reluctant to divulge. After some super-sleuthing I found out that more than once a mom has been found curled up in the teepee and/or the sod house catching a few zzzz's. "We saw there was a need and it would benefit the museum and the community," said one staff member. No matter why or how, this mom is thrilled and can't wait to go to the "REST-room" by herself – which is exactly how she longs to go!