Meet Sadie Jane Scott

Sadie Jane Scott

Born Tuesday, November 17, 2009
1:27 PM
Bossier City, Louisiana
7 pounds 11 ounces
20 1/2 inches

Sadie seems to already be smiling in her sleep.


Mother and child.
(Yes, you can see that Sadie has grown jaundiced)
We praise the Lord for His safe delivery of Sadie and for His care of Bethany during the birth.


Sadie's first look at her cousin Kyah.
Kyah is 10 weeks old and now weighs a little less than 14 pounds and Sadie has lost down to just a little over 7 pounds.
Acutally, Sadie is yawning, but it sure makes for a cute picture.

The Year is Passing Too Swiftly

Here we are in May already and it only seems yesterday that it was the beginning of 2009. God continues to bless us and provide for us in every way possible.
Change continues to be the word we seem to live by. It's time for Bethany and Phillip to move to Louisiana for him to complete his second internship. They will be living with his parents there and Bethany already has a job working in a bank close to the house. Phillip will be working in an orthopedic outpatient clinic. At the end of August they will move to Lubbock for his last internship. Here's where they need some help. Bethany will be 7 months pregnant when they arrive and really won't be able to work full time. They also will not have any housing provided. It looks like we will get to see God provide again as He always does. Please do pray for them in all these transitions and for the child Bethany is carrying. It's too early to know the gender of the baby, but all tests are showing a healthy baby.
Bryce and Erin are having so much fun watching their little Kyah Everett continue developing. According to his sonograms he's going to be a long baby (and who would wonder why with his momma and daddy!). They are in the beginning stages of getting the room ready for his arrival in August.
Keegan goes to Guatemala tomorrow with one of the elders, Mark Hardy, from our sending church in Lubbock. It should be a fun trip for them as they look for partnering opportunities for Melonie Park Church. Mark and Keegan always manage to have fun together.
I am still loving my job for so many reasons. I am blessed with wonderful coworkers who all know and love the Lord. Since this is a start up business we are getting to spend some time waiting on God to provide and then celebrate each admission. What joy to have such a working evironment and sisters in Christ with whom to spend each day at work.

Long Overdue and Late

Wow, has it really been nearly two months since I posted last? There is nothing to say except I let the time slip away each day without sitting down to write. Let me give the briefest summary. Holly, Greg and family came for Christmas and we had a wonderful family time. The children are all growing up so fast; in fact, we celebrated Connor's 5th birthday while they were here. Bryce and Erin gave us a special gift on Christmas day-- announcing they would be having a little Williamson in August. After Christmas, I began working full time in my new job at Accolade Home Health. I love it and I am so glad I made the change! Then the upper respiratory illness knocked me down for nearly two weeks before passing on to Bethany. At least it wasn't the ugly flu that is so prevalent here right now. Keegan finally got his official letter of completion for his doctorate in late January--Hooray, hooray! How's that for brief?! Let me show you a few pictures, and then I hope to be back at this regularly.Christmas Morning

Everyone had to get some outside in the warmer weather, even Alyssa loved it.

The "Twinks" were too busy playing and, yes, eating the dirt to pose for a picture. In fact, they were very, very busy the entire time they were here. They love to double team anyone willing to take them on! I don't know how Holly keeps up with them on a daily basis.


If anyone is interested in Fritz, he has made a full recovery and is absolutely beautiful. He is as goofy as they come and thinks he's a lap dog, but he made his greatest inroad into the family with how he let the Twinks love on him in their usual rough and tough fashion.

Quest 2008

What is Quest? Keegan and I write about it, prepare for it, pray for it, ask others to pray for it, and we regularly attend it. I would guess many of you just know it’s some kind of conference associated with our ministry but not much else. Even though I have heard much about Quest, I have to confess that I didn’t fully grasp what it involved until I attended one. I knew it was a leadership formation conference for CAM leaders but not much more than that. In light of my own experience I encouraged Keegan to continue communicating what Quest is. Leadership formation has been a passion of Keegan since he began ministry in the local church. Quest is an out growth of that passion, years of working with leaders, CAM’s needs and the primary focus of his doctorate.

In June of last year attendees were asked to help pick a name and theme that would reflect their vision and values for leader formation. Thus, the name and mantra were created: Quest…Becoming a Christ-like Community of Lifelong Learners. The word “quest” implies the act of seeking or pursuing something. A quest can also be an adventure. Often, it describes a chivalrous enterprise in a medieval romance, usually involving an adventurous journey. God certainly intends for all of us to experience an adventurous and exciting Christian walk. Quest is designed for people who want to make a difference in their ministry setting, and the purpose is to help participants become lifelong learners with the goal to understand and then seek to align their actions and attitudes with biblical principles and practices. Over 100 CAM missionaries have participated at some level in leader formation and felt it to be enriching, stimulating and highly valuable. Under its current design Quest conferences are offered twice a year during the months of April and October. Attendees include both men and women who are invited by their respective organizational leaders to participate. When possible and desirable, couples are encouraged to participate together.

The April Quest themes were focus on: 1) Living and Serving Together as Multiple Generations; 2) Essential Counseling Skills; 3) 4) What Kind of Legacy Are You Leaving?; 5) Learning as a Way of Being. Keegan will be facilitated three of these sessions Jon Edwards, CAM's member care coordinator, facilitated one session. Please continue to pray for the moving of God’s Spirit through this ministry and for changed lives and a changed mission. Join us in praying God will continue to provide the funding to continue Quest and grow it for His glory and honor(funding is by donations to CAM).

My prayer from the QUEST conference

I want to stay right where I am-in God’s presence in nature. Here I can smell, hear and feel what has been destroyed by the urbanization of where I live. I am alone now all but God, His word and some of his smaller creations. I am still and I am quiet. If I can keep my mind and heart focused only on Him, I will be fed and nurtured and perhaps able to digest one tiny morsel which will sustain me in the days ahead. Lord, can I stay here? Here it’s just you and me. Thank you Lord for your creation and for allowing me to be in it this time and this place. Refresh my soul. Have your winds blow away my masks and smoke screens until there is no pretense. Warm my blood so that it rushes through my body carrying the physical impurities to the organs that will clean these impurities from me. Clear my senses from sin that prevents them from being sharp and effective. Wash my spiritual lungs of the darkness that I might breathe deeply and fully of your purity and righteousness. Surround me so I have no escape but to dwell here with you for this brief time. Touch me so that when I return to daily living I am changed.

As always God answered my prayer. I am changed. More will follow on Quest in another blog.

CAM Center and Me

Today is Friday and I have completed my first official week at CAM center. I worked Monday at the medical office, and began Tuesday at CAM center. They have given me an office near Keegan and the mobilization department. Right now it's pretty bare with a desk and a computer, but it is efficient. This week was CAM's week to have a concerted time of prayer each morning for all of the missionaries and ministries of CAM. Every morning began with an hour long session of prayer in small groups covering each specific missionary and ministry. Wow, it's been a long time since I have been able to participate in such a prayer time. I also learned so much about the needs and praises of each of CAM's missionaries. I am humbled by what God is doing through the people serving with CAM who are all so passionate and willing to serve God in each of their fields of ministry.
After the prayer time each morning, it was time to get busy. Quest is only two weeks away and there is much to do for the final preparation. Right now my main tasks are helping Keegan get the notebooks ready for the 46 people attending Quest and helping with communication. Let's just say, I didn't lack for anything to do and the days flew by. I loved having lunch with Keegan everyday in my office. Everyone in the office was wonderfully warm and friendly, and there was none of the usual drama and anger I experience at the medical office. It was so refreshing! Next week will be much the same with a little bit more pressure as it will be the last week to finish preparing for Quest. Already I have been asked to help with another project that involves a town meeting for our US missionaries in June. I will begin on that when we return from Quest.
I am so happy God is giving me this opportunity to return to ministry again. Please join me in praying He will provide for us as our budget has taken a huge cut without my nursing salary. Thank you. I close sharing this:

Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.
-- Helen Keller

Leaves, leaving, and lives

I am spending my first week of being jobless to spend it with Holly, Greg and the grandchildren. Being with the next two generations gives me pause to think of my life and what I will one day be leaving behind. This fall we took a trip to Ruidoso, New Mexico and spent many hours hiking in the mountains there. One day we hiked along a beautiful wooded trail and I decided to stop and just experience my surroundings. I sat beneath a towering oak tree that was in the process of loosing it's leaves (not something I get to experience much in Dallas). As I sat there in the pile of decaying leaves, a slight breeze passed overhead and I was showered with withered and dry oak leaves, twigs, and even acorns. Every creature that crawled or hopped or scurried through the leaves made so much noise in the dry leaves that I knew I was not alone. I reached over and picked up a handful of dead leaves and twigs and watched how easily they crumbled in my hand. Moving the leaves aside I looked at the ground underneath and I saw such rich humus soil formed by the decay and I wished I could take back a large load to mix into the hard clay packed soil of my yard in Dallas. I was reminded of the elementary school science lesson I learned about how the decay will return to soil and will nourish the tree so that in the spring and succeeding years the tree will have the nourishment it needs to keep growing. I like how Solomon summed it up in Ecclesiastes 3:15 "Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before." Not to sound negative or morbid, I am decaying as I grow older, but it's not the ground I am thinking of nourishing. I am thinking of what will be my legacy to these children and those who are yet to be born. If anything, I want them to see that their mother and grandmother knew Jesus and heard His voice and followed Him. Let me be light to lead them to Him.
Speaking of children, we are very proud of all of our children, but this week we celebrate Bryce's new promotion at Time Warner. He's young to be in management, but he has worked hard and proven himself and his employers have recognized his gifts. Phillip has also continued to excel in his school work at Southwestern, but he has to keep his nose to the grindstone getting all the work done. Greg loves his new job and is slowly forming his team around him and making the job description come to life. The girls are all doing well. I have to admit after spending these few days with Holly, I honestly don't know how she does it--only by the grace of God.
Keegan is busy working on his presentations for Quest which will begin in two weeks. It's always a lot of work to get it ready and this time the group is even larger. There wil be many returning to continue learning and their enthusiasm about the conference has encouraged others to to want to be a part. Keegan has had to put his doctoral paper on hold until after Quest, but he intends to focus on it once again in May.
Since I am returning to full time ministry Keegan and I will be experiencing God's grace in new ways. Our prayer these days is based on Isaiah 30:21, "Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, 'This is the way; walk in it.'". Please pray with us that we hear His voice in this new endeavor.