Colorado Adventure

By Creg
     For the last several months we have had quite a few big & hard jobs. To reward our kids for doing such a good job of working hard we decided to take a trip to Colorado. We stayed at my relative Deanna's house in Colorado Springs. When we first got there late Tuesday afternoon we went straight to The Garden of the Gods to do some hiking and rock climbing. Wednesday we went to Denver to spend the day at the Museum and eat at Casa Bonita. The restaurant was amazing with cliff divers, shoot-em-up cowboys, & a seemingly endless maze of tunnels & caves. Not to mention all-you-can-eat mexican food, including sopapillas.
      Thursday we went to Canon City to go whitewater rafting on the Arkansas River. We all had a blast. Friday we went with Deanna to Cheyenne Mountain to hike some of her favorite trails. It was a beautiful day & we loved every minute of it.

At the Mayan exhibit in the Denver museum

Samantha & Steele looking over the Arkansas River & Royal Gorge

Resting on our hike at Palmer Park

Rafting down the Arkansas River

Here comes some more whitewater

Garden of the Gods

Enjoying the hiking & scenery

A diver at Casa Bonita Restaurant

Hiking at Palmer Park

Steele going vertical barefoot

Steele & I took the river route up Cheyenne Mountain. We found a lot of flakes of Pyrite (Fools Gold)

Michael's Baptism

By Creg

Michael getting baptized

 We met Michael a couple of years ago at Faithworks, where he was known as mighty Michael with the mighty appetite, and we became friends. He is a hard worker who doesn't have trouble finding a job, just trouble keeping one, because his demon would always come back at the worst time. He's been trying to break his drug addiction for most of his life, going through various programs & counselors. He knew he needed something different.

People from HOPE Church praising God for his rebirth

April 20th at Jacob's Dream on the ACU campus is when Michael started something different. After a lot of studying, prayer & sharing his testimony at church, Michael decided to give his life to Jesus & be baptized for the forgiveness of his sins so the Holy Spirit could come live in him.

He knows his addiction is not gone, and there will still be struggles ahead, but now he has the power to deal with them by giving them up to God for healing.

On July 10th Michael graduated from the Serenity House for recovering addicts. His story keeps getting better.