Friends

Our recent vacation started with a trip to Jackson to stay with my sister. On the way we were able to catch up with old friends. Keith, Rebecca, Sara, and Levi live in Vicksburg and we stopped to have dinner with them. They are solid christians and we are blessed to call them friends. Rebecca graduated high school with Courtney and we met Keith in Sunday school at Vidalia First
Baptist. Initially it was a small class with 7 or 8 being a great attendance day. We left it that way in 2006 when we went back to school in Alexandria. We were gone for one year before we returned to Vidalia to complete clinicals for ultrasound school. We had a wonderful experience at Calvary Baptist in Alexandria and were heartbroken to leave there. Our intentions when we returned to Vidalia were not to attend FBV. We were going to try another church. God had other plans. A chance (God ordained) encounter between Courtney and Keith at the grocery store changed that. He invited us to a New Years party at their house the next day (Sunday). We felt like if we were going to the party we should at least attend church with them that morning. Wow! The next morning we attended Sunday school and it was nothing like the class we left. The Holy Spirit was moving. A big part of that was Keith and Rebecca. That year was awesome. With Clare and Tammy leading the class, there was lots of discussion and great attendance. Keith and I participated in some additional bible study and had lots of great discussion. Proverbs 27:17 says as iron sharpens iron a friend sharpens a friend. That's how I feel about Keith. Though our families are not able to get together that much we consider them special friends and keep them in our prayers. That night in Vicksburg was a blurr. I wish we could have stayed longer, even though Landry was a little wild and fell out of his chair at least twice. God willing, we will be provided some opportunities in the future to fellowship with them. Maybe we will be worshiping together someday. That would be great.