Samaria Project 2012

Wow!  Another Samaria Project has come and gone!  This time we went to Clarksville, Virginia to Water's Edge Community Church.  Our friends, Ryan and Christie, have been a part of their church for years, so they were our connection to that church and area.  (We met Ryan and Christie while in seminary just after we were married, well, actually Ryan met them before we were married while I was still in Clemson.)  It was so fun to be there and to serve with them.  It was amazing how everything worked out for us to go there this summer!

So, we headed to Clarksville on Father's day.  (Which is the reason for my absence of a Father's Day post.)  I left a little earlier then the group and got there around dinner time.  I stayed until Wednesday after lunch and then headed to Yorktown to visit my mom.  We did some community service, helped out their church, and did some outreach at Newton Trailer Park.  It was a great week!  It is so hard to believe that we are in the third cycle of the Acts 1:8 mission plan.  Here are some pictures from the week~

Go Mercy!  Helping the big girls:)

Paige packing lunches for Newton



Ryan and Coleman.  I took this picture so we can prove that we know him when he becomes Govenor.  Also, If he ever becomes President, he has promised the McGanns his second home.  SWEET!  Vote Coleman!

Tired (and overwhelmed) Mercy.  Mission trips are hard.

This is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE picture of the week!  Josiah and Aedan are loading the trailer with lunches.  This is not a set up picture. (meaning that no one asked them to pick up this crate of food)  They did it on their own and I grabbed my camara soooo fast and got this shot!  woot!

Christie and I at Newton
This is a "wet" picture because it started pouring down rain.  (Mercy made it into a van:)

Aedan and I
I turned this picture the right way, but this is how it came out.
Aedan didn't want to take a picture, but momma wins this battle!

At Newton (the day it rained)  The kids piled up into Sherry's vechile!

Ryan and I

Here are some more pictures (mostly Paige's pictures) after I left for Newport News.

Not sure what Ryan Russell is doing here.  haha!  Maybe he is taking my place, or something.

Go Garrett!

Look, Ryan and Christie are even standing the same way.  Surely, they are related!

Some of the group!

Games!

Paige is an amazing face painter!  Woot!

Here are Ryan and Ryan with Dan the animal man!  So sad our boys had to miss this day and seeing the huge alligator!

EOE  2013 here we (well, maybe not me-we'll see)...but, here they come:)