So, I am busy getting ready to leave for our trip to Alaska! I am very excited about it! It is always figuring out what to take to wear! Some places we are going will be warm and other places will be cold! I think that it will actually be very cool for us since we have been use to 90 degree weather and humidity. We have a great group of people going and it will be nice to have a small group to tour Alaska with.

We have some exciting things coming up! We are trying to set up new proga,s that are relevant and my dad has several books that will be coming out in the next year! The one book we are excited about is called "What's the Big Deal About Jesus?". This will come out the first of August. There are many things my dad put in the book that he has not aired and I hope that you will get it and read it and also share the book with friends and family.

Well, that is it until we get back which will be in about two weeks. It is hard to believe that next week is the Fourth of July! Time is going quickly!

I am sure that many of you saw the sad story of the mother in Ohio who was killed. They came out with the fact that her boyfriend had been drinking and after he left the bar he was at he went to her house to kill her! On the Today Show, there was a girl that I saw who had a relationship with the same guy and she talked about how dangerous he was and how he stalked her. I think it is great how the community came out and helped to find this girl, but I also see a sad situation where this girl could still be alive. This world is getting to be more and more scary to live in because of people! We are just passing through and this world is so not our home! What a great truth! I know that we should pray for this girl's family and aslo for her boyfriend that he might see the truth.

This week we are getting ready to leave for our trip to Alaska. We actually don't go until next Tuesday, but there are many things to be done! I am so looking forward to our trip! There will be much to tell when we get back!

This week we have some good news to tell. My dad's co-author, Dillon Burroughs, is now working here at our office full time. He was living in Indiana but the Lord worked it out for him to move his family here to Chattanooga and to be apart of our staff full time. It is so wonderful since there are many books they are writing that will be coming out soon!

In the mean time, we are busy with letters and programs going out because our family will be going to Alaska in two weeks that we are doing for the ministry. I am looking forward to it. I have been to Alaska but there are parts we are going to that I have not been to before! We are planning a trip to Rome next year and brochures will be coming out soon! I hope that if you have never been with us on a trip, that you will consider coming next summer with us. We have a great trip planned for an affordable price. What is exciting is to meet the people that support our ministry and to get to know them and have some fun and bible teaching at the same time.

On another note, I am going to get political for a second. I am not a fan of Hillary Clinton, but this week she came out with a theme song to get people to come to her website. On it, she and her husband, did a spoof off of the sopranos. It was very well done and it gets people to come to her website and learn more about her campaign. This is going to be an interesting election. It is one where the christians need to stand for what they believe. The next president has a lot to deal with because the world is coming closer to the rapture. Nobody yet thrills my soul for president and I hope that one will stand up for the values of this country and also show the leadership that we need as a country.

Well, hope everybody had a great weekend! We just started a brand new series called Every Man's Challenge and later we will do Every Woman's Challenge. This is such a great series for anybody who is single or getting ready to be married or is already married! We had three wonderful guests on the program who shared their life stories and what they learned.

I really do love summer as long as the humidity is not too bad! It has been very warm here and we have had no rain! But, this week is suppossed to be hotter. I know that summer is here because down on the river here in Chattanooga they have a festival called Riverbend and they bring in top people that sing. This year we have people like Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs. Each year they have different people that come in! It is too crowded for me and too hot! Always when Riverbend is on it rains at the beginning and the rest of the week is hot!

One exciting note is that our other writer, Dillon Burroughs, is moving his family down this week and will start working for us full time starting next Monday! We are so glad that he will be with us at our office and it will make writing easier. Continue to pray that everything goes well with their move and that their transition will be smooth.

Sorry I have not written lately. We just got back from a vacation with my dad's side of the family. We went to the beach and it was so wonderful that I did not want to come home! This was a great time to go because it was cooler and I actually was cold sitting on the beach! We have 12 of us altogether and we all stay in one house! Some people can not imagine doing that but it is so fun and we all get along! We rent a house with a pool and one that is walking distance to the beach. It was fun to catch up with our family and it is so neat to see how God is working in the lives of my cousin. Just to give you an example, my one cousin is in Canada at a bible school and is loving it. He did so well in Greek that he helped the professor last year grade papers. He is wanting to start som small ministries and it is so neat to hear him pray too. He sounds like a preacher. Some of the stuff he is learning is over my head but the knowledge he has is incredible!

Back at the ranch, I am trying to catch up on work. We are doing a taping with Erwin Lutzer this week. This Sunday we will be starting a new series on the challenges that young men and women face and also that married couples face. I believe it is going to be an excellent series and I hope that it will touch many people in areas that they need as far as relationships are concerned.

My dad continues to gain strength each day and I hope that you will continue to pray for him and that he will continue to keep his strength up! He is writing books and working on the taping coming up!

That is it for now and I will update you later.