Saturday, July 08, 2006

What's in the water up here?!

To all of our brothers and sisters,
We (that's wifey and myself) realized recently that many of you probably haven't heard our news yet...On or about December 4, 2006, Angus Calvin Knox Hughes will be entering this world. As we do not know if the baby is a boy or girl yet, I have chosen a nice unisex name for the him/her; though Shaylene seems to have different ideas concerning the name of the child. Anyway, Shaylene is 19 weeks along and the doctor says that everything looks great! I remember when we moved here a couple of years ago I couldn't believe that couples were having babies while they were in school; now here we are...God sure has a great sense of humor! In the words of a pastor friend of mine from back home, "Babies are blessing anytime that they arrive." Please keep Shaylene in your prayers along with the other pregnant gals up here (Yuka Bosch, Natalie Ebbens, and Rebecca Hoch...I hope I didn't miss anybody). Peace and blessings to you all!

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Update

Hello everyone! Just a little note to let people what the Gays are doing (gosh that always sounds bad when I put it like that!). Anyway, this last week we moved into Matt Johnson's place until we can go to our new church. We finished "getting here" on Thursday night (6/29) On Friday morning, about two hours before I had to leave to catch a plane at O'Hare to get down to a neutral pulpit in TN, Jennifer fell down the stairs. She's okay, but for a while I didn't think I could go preach.
But I did. It was a LONG weekend for Jennifer, but they all made it. I went down to Madisonville, Tennessee, where I just fell in love with not only the place but more importantly the people. Sunday afternoon the PNC extended me a call which I accepted on the spot. So we're off to Madisonville, TN!! COM is not meeting at all during July, so I won't be able to really get down there until the end of August, but we're really looking forward to it.
Madisonville is about 45 minutes south of Knoxville, about 10 minutes outside of the Great Smoky Mountains national park and Cherokee National Forest. It's really pretty there, so if you want to come down, just let me know. I'll probably have an accent in about a month, but that's life, huh?
Thanks for praying for us!