Well, I can't believe that tomorrow is a new year! It is hard to believe that 2007 is over. I hope that each of you had a nice Christmas! We had family on my dad's side to come to our house. That included 13 people and two dogs. We had a wonderful Christmas this year. It was much calmer than last year. Last year part of our family came down with the stomach virus and it was not a pretty sight. I enjoy family so much especially since I am an only child. This year we did not even cook at home. We ended up going out to eat both days which was a nice break for my mom.

Another highlight was my birthday was yesterday and I turned 30. Very hard for me to believe but I am excited for a new decade. This weekend I am having a party to really celebrate the momentous number!

I hope each of you have a wonderful new year and I know that I want to make 2008 the best year possible and do everything I can to serve the Lord more.

Well, this has been a busy week. Right now I am working on letter number 4 that we send out in December. Along with that we are sending out our christmas orders and other materials that people have requested. On top of everything I went with my parents to Dallas this past weekend for a conference and also to help with the taping we did on the topic of dating the book of Revelation. That went very well. It was so cold in Dallas and they almost got some ice. It was foggy and cloudy every day we were there.

This weekend my mom and I are singing in our choir for the christmas musical at our church and also we are trying to finish last minute details for Christmas. After this weekend we have one more taping we are doing as a follow up to the debate we taped this past weekend. That will be on Wednesday. So, needless to say it is going to be busy up until Christmas.

One thing that was very interesting this past weekend was that many people at the conference (which was a pre-trib conference) were there because of our program. It was so neat to hear all the stories of how our program has changed lives through the years.

Well, here it is a few weeks before Christmas. It is hard to believe that it is the end of the year. This year, my mom and I started early on shopping and we only have two people left. One of them happens to be my dad. I know that might be suprising but he is a hard person to buy for.

This weekend we are going to Dallas for a pre-trib conference that we are helping out with. We are taking some of our staff so I hope that you will pray for us as we go!

This is a busy time at the office. In the month of December we do three mailings and a gift ot our top givers. So, I am halfway through with all the mailings and gifts that we send out. That does not include the regular orders and christmas orders that we send out. The key is to stay on top of everything.

Well, I wish you well in shopping and all your plans for this wonderful Christmas holiday!

Can you believe that Thanksgiving is over? It is hard to believe that Christmas is a month away. Our Thanksgiving was very peaceful this year. We actually went out to eat because it was just our immediate family and no extended family. Overall it was a relaxing weekend and we even got half of our christmas shopping done. I have to hand it to the people who get up early and go on black Friday! I could not do that. My mom and I went shopping on Saturday and there were no people and there were bargains too! It was great!

So, we start another week. We covet your prayers for the ministry as we end this year. There are many exciting things to come and the Lord keeps opening doors up!

It has been over a year since my dad's surgery and he is doing well. He is much stronger and is able to do more things than before. I hope you will continue to pray for him and all the pressures he has upon him.

This past weekend I went with my parents and some of our staff to a conference that Southern Evangelical (Norman Geisler's school) did. There were about 4,000 people that attended. They had speakers such as Josh McDowell and his son, Erwin Lutzer, Gary Habermas and many others. My dad spoke on Saturday morning and the interesting thing was that many people had never heard of our ministry and it was their first time to come to this conference.

I enjoyed so much meeting the people at our booktable! It was a wonderful conference and there were people who gave their life to the Lord. That makes it all worth while.

On another note, it is Thanksgiving next week! Time has gone too fast! At our house, we are busy decorating for christmas. We have family on my dad's side that comes and it takes awhile to put up the decorations. I know that this year I have a lot to be thankful for! At this time last year my dad was about to go into surgery. I thank the Lord that he saved my dad's life and he is still around to do the ministry God has called him to do! He is doing very well and I hope that you will continue to pray for him and that he contiues to have the strength he needs for each day! There is a lot to do in running a ministry but we are thankful for what the Lord is doing.

We are also thankful that the Lord opened the door to go back on the Inspirational Network this past weekend! Many people that have not been able to see us can watch us once again! I hope that you have a wonderful thanksgiving and to be thankful for all the the Lord has done in your life and for your family. Thanks for your support in this ministry.

Can you believe how close we are to Christmas? Where has this year gone? This past weekend I went to Nashville with some friends from college. It was so much fun! It was so good to be together. That is one thing I miss about college is my friends because we are all spread out.

We are in the midst of all our conferences and traveling quite a bit. Last weekend my parents were a part of a conference in Dallas where the topic was about Jesus and the media. This next weekend we are going to Charlotte, NC for an apologetics conference that my dad is speaking at.

I hope that you will continue to pray for our ministry and this time of year because we are starting on new stations both for radio and tv and for all our engagements that we are involved in.

I can't believe that it is almost the end of October. This week is a short week because I am leaving to go to Nashville to see some college friends for the weekend and my parents are going to Dallas for the weekend for a conference and also for a banquet that we are doing for the ministry. I hope that you will pray for my parents and for the trip they have this weekend! We also have some of our staff traveling and going with them so pray for their safety too.

One exciting thing we found out this week is that we have been given a one minute slot on Moody radio every day to promote the program. We are very thankful for this opening and we pray that new people will be able to find us. We are the only apologetics ministry out their where we answer the questions and defend the truth of christianity.

Well once again I am working on our appeal letter and getting the booktable together that we will be doing in Dallas the end of October. So, it is very busy around here.

The last weekend my parents and part of our staff will be in Dallas for a conference and they will also be doing a banquet. I hope that you will pray for them that weekend and for their safety as they go!

We had some good news happen this past week! Some very generous donors helped us to get back on INSP at a very good time. The time is at 9:30 p.m. eastern time on Sunday night! If you get INSP I hope that you will watch us on this new time. We thank the Lord for bringing this about! We also thank the Lord for wonderful people that help us on a daily basis. We could not do this ministry without them.

This week has gone fast - we are getting ready for conferences and booktables and letters to go out - this gets to be our busy time but one that is very fruitful too!

My parents are gone again this weekend for another business trip! This past week my dad along with his co-writer Dillon Burroughs did many radio interviews on their new book "What's the Big Deal About Jesus". We have some resources from those interviews on the website. That book is a great one to give people because my dad has put together many inerviews with the scholars on who Jesus is and who the media trys to portray him.

In the mean time, we are working out to hopefully have a three minute deal on the radio about our program that will air on Moody and hopefully some other stations. This is an answer to prayer and I hope that you will continue to pray that we can get on some more radio stations and help that expand like the t.v.

Our ministry is very small and the expenses are very big! We could not do it without faithful people who will give and help us to continue to defend the Word of God!

I can't believe that it is October 2 already. My parents just got back from a trip to CA. In the mean time, we are gearing up for the fall and for the different conferences coming up! Right now we are airing the series that we did with Lee Strobel. If you don't have this series, I hope that you will get it for yourself or for a friend. What I like about this series is that Lee Strobel was an editor for the Chicago Tribune and was an atheist right down the line. Because his wife got saved he started to investigate who Jesus Christ was. He explains this and also about how the media is destroying the person and character of God.

I hope you will pray for us and for my dad. He is doing very well but he still needs prayer for the conferences and programs that are coming up! I hope you will also pray for our staff and for the many responsibilities that we all have. Many of us are doing 5 different jobs because we are so small. If one person is out it slows us down. Thank you for supporting us and for standing with us. If you live near Charlotte or in Dallas I hope that maybe you can come to some of the conferences that we are apart of. There are more details on our website about what is coming up!

Don't the weeks fly by - once again we have started our monthly mailing here at the show and we have a busy fall coming up!

This weekend my parents are traveling out to California to visit some of our donors. I hope that you will pray for them as they go. We have some exciting events coming up this fall that we are doing or helping out with. It is amazing to see how the Lord works in situations.

Just to let you know, my dad and his co-author has a new book called "Defending the Faith" which will be coming out soon. A very good resource for churches and small groups to use. If you have not already bought our book "What's the Big Deal About Jesus" I recommend that you do! It is a combination of different programs with the best Jesus scholars in the world. It is a wonderful resource to use especially in witnessing to your friends and relatives.

Thank you for your prayers and I hope that you will continue to pray for our ministry as we defend the truth of the gospel.

It is hard to believe that 6 years has passed since the attacks on 9/11. When we went to New York last week, I was trying to fathom all that went on that day! It really gives you goose bumps when you go down to ground zero. We talked to several of the people working in the stores around there and they were not there on 9/11. They said that the terroists may have killed thousands of people but they did not change anything.

There could be more attacks to come but thanks to our security we have been safe! Whether you agree with the war going on or not, the terroists are all over the world and in their religion of Islam they don't care about life. Their mission is to kill and be rewarded for that!

I hope that today you will say a prayer for our military, our president and the other leaders for all that they are doing!

I remember in school when I never heard of islamic terroists. Bin Laden was never named. Now, all of this is a threat and will continue to be until the Lord returns.

Well, we just got back from our trip up north! We went to a conference in New Jersey called America's Keswick. It is a wonderful bible conference that my dad spoke at for their final weekend of summer events. One thing they do there that nobody else has done is they have a place called the Colony where men who have had problems with drugs and alcohol can come and be under a strict regiment everyday and also hear the word of God spoken each day. The men are on a waiting list and they also go through an interview before they are let in. It is a wonderful program and so many stories of how men have come to know the Lord and also how they have regained their life once more.

After the conference we went to New York. We walked all around and went to a show. We also got to go down to where the WTC used to be. Right now it is under construction to rebuild the subway system and they will eventually rebuild some buildings and make a memorial to the victims of 9/11. It is hard to believe that those buildings are gone. It was a very moving sight and to know what went on that horrific day! I hope that we as Americans will never forget 9/11. I think we are starting too! I know that the New Yorkans have not forgotten and they have been forever changed!

Just wanted to update the fact that our taping went well on Thursday! We taped Lee Strobel who use to be a former atheist and now is a christian and was explaining the evidence that he came to about who Jesus was! It was a great day hearing from him! We will start to air those programs the week after Labor Day.

Pray for our family this weekend! We are going to be going up north where my dad is speaking at a conference. We are also going to take a little vacation in New York City too! I am very excited to go! The last time we were in New York was a few days before 9/11.

We have many conferences coming up that I will let you know about! My dad is feeling good and I am glad that he can speak in different places coming up! Continue to pray for the ministry and all that we are doing1

I wanted to share with some of you that over the past couple of weeks I have talked to some people who have really been impacted by the series that we are doing on creation! I had quite a few women who called and said that the program was an encouragement to their husbands because of circumstances they were in at the moment. I also had a lady call from Colorado who said that her son was glued to the tv and she was ordering two so that he could have one and also so she could give one to his science teacher.

You never know the impact the programs have on people. Plus, we will never know all the stories of how people were impacted by the John Ankerberg Show.

This week we are taping a new series with Lee Strobel. He was a former editor of the Chicago Tribune and a former atheist. Because of the evidence he found he became a christian. We are going to be talking to him on his experience and also on his new book that he has out. This will start airing in September after Labor Day! I hope that you will join in and watch.

It is so hot here this week as it is in so many other places. Today it is going to be 98 and the heat index will be well over 100 degrees! This is the time of year I feel bad for people who drive delivery trucks because they have no air!

I found out some bad news this past week. I have a friend who her husband was in the Army 7 years ago. He has been out but just last week they called him up to train and possibly go to Iraq. He was trying to get into the Navy as a chaplain but the Lord must have a different purpose for his life right now! I hope you will pray for him and for the other ones who are being called up! I know most people do not like the war and yes I would like for our soldiers to come home, but there is a job to do and we can not let the insurgents come over again to our country. I think that most people do not realize how much that the Muslims are taking over not only our country but around the world. Even in our city we have a mosque. We are definitely getting close to the end times.

Here at the ministry we are now showing the creation series we taped with Hugh Ross. It is so interesting to see our world and how it came about! I hope that you will tune in to watch!

I love talking to so many of our viewers. I talked to a lady just yesterday from South Africa who watches our program on Daystar and this weekend was the first time she had seen the program! How wonderful to know that when you send your donations to us we are helping people around the world!

First of all I want to say that I am praying for those people who have lost loved ones or ones that are missing in Minnesota. I have never seen anything like that before where the bridge just crumbled beneath those people. It is so sad how not a day goes by that something does not happen!

On another note, I was very saddened to hear about Robin Robert's breast cancer. My grandmother has breast cancer and so far she has been in the clear. Robin seems like a neat woman and is very kind and sensitive. We need to take it on ourselves to pray for her and what she is going through.

We are busy here at the ministry. We are getting ready to tape Mr Lee Strobel on his new book that is out. That will be the end of August. We are also planning the fall and my dad is going to be speaking at several places. He spoke at our church this past Sunday and that is really the first time he has preached since his surgery. He is doing better and goes again to get his checkup! He still needs prayer for strength each day!

The last thing I want to share is our family found out some exciting news. My cousin is going to have a baby in March which will be the first one. That will definitely change things when we go on vacation as a family next summer! I am so excited for her!

Well, I think I am back in the swing of things. The four hour time difference has really thrown me for a loop! It usually does not take me this long to get back into the right time! What is strange is to see darkness because for two weeks I never saw it!

Next year, we are planning on taking a trip to Rome and do a cruise from Rome and we will be going to Florence, Naples, Monte Carlo and Pompeii just to name a few places. This will be in July and the airfare is included with the cruise. I hope that you will consider coming. You can get more details on our website or we will be glad to send a brochure to you. I hope that you will consider this.

Can you believe how fast the summer is going? I am shocked that we are almost into August. I think with being gone that has made the summer go faster. As my friends say I am never home and they wonder where in the world I am now! We are getting ready for the fall and my dad is planning some speaking engagements. I hope that you will continue to pray for him as he needs continued strength each day!

Well, we just got back from our trip to Alaska! What a beautiful state to see God's creation. We did a cruise that left from Vancouver and went to Ketchikan, Juneau, Sitka, Icy Point Strait and we saw the Hubbard Glacier. The cruise was a week and we had 15 people in our group that went.

It rained and was pretty cold but it definitely gave us the flavor of Alaska. Did you know that as of right now they are losing 5 minutes a day of sunlight? They have only 3-4 hours of light in the winter time and the rest it is completely dark. This is the best time to go because in the winter it can be 50 below zero and snow is all around.

After the cruise we went from Anchorage up to Denali National park by train which took 8 hours. It was so much fun. The scenery was beautiful! We were able to eat breakfast and lunch on the train. In Denali park, we went on a tour that was about 8 hours where we went through the park and got to see a lot of wildlife. We saw grizzly bears, moose, caribou, a wolfe, rabbits, the state bird, eagles and on and on I could go. We were also able to see the bottom and the summitt of Mt. McKinley. It was beautiful! After being in Denali we left and went back by train to Fairbanks and did some touring there before we flew home.

We were very thankful that we made all our planes on time and there were no big delays. Our bags did not get home with us until the next day but at least we were home! If you ever get the chance to go to Alaska you need to take the train out of Anchorage or Fairbanks that goes to denali park. That shows Alaska in all its glory. Alaska is so unique and is so different from the rest of the US. You almost feel like you are in another country.

Now that we are back, it is time to get in the swing of things again. I will let you know more of what is coming up next week!

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!