Randy & Sary-Jo

Each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Eph 5:33

We have been married 31 years and are still very much in love.  We love to serve the Lord, and have a heart to see married couples experience the best that God has for them. To that end, we have been active in the Marriage Ministry at  Lighthouse Christian Center.  We also have a heart for children.  In 2008 we earned our Foster License, but God seems to have closed the door on Foster Parenting for us.  To our surprise, He has clearly called us to adopt… from Ethiopia!  We submitted our application last January and traveled to Ethiopia to bring Daniel (9) and David (7) home in September (2009).   We are once again a household of four.  Read “Us, Adopt?“ to learn how and why we embarked on this journey and follow the main blog page for updates.  

Randy is active in the Technical (sound) Ministry at Lighthouse.  After spending the better part of 26 years working for the same company, he began a new phase in his professional life as Director of Information Technology for the Puyallup School District.  He thoroughly enjoys his new job – especially being back in education, where he thought he’d end up after high school.  He is a discussion leader in Bible Study Fellowship (BSF).  He enjoys baseball (of course), sailing occasionally, technical gadgets, and working in the yard.  He is very excited to have kids at home again!! 

Sary-Jo continues to attend BSF (this is her 9th year) and, like Randy, is excited for the new study of Isaiah to begin.   She loves the historical and social backgrounds, original language meanings, and inter-connections of various passages, people, and books that the notes offer.  The questions can be challenging and the lectures provide food for thought and meaningful applications.  At Lighthouse she volunteers in children’s ministries.  She works at Karshner Elementary, our neighborhood school.  She loves her schedule  – part time/mornings – as it allows her time to run errands and take care of household responsibilities before the boys get out of school and ”mom school” begins.   Sary-Jo is basically a homebody and a mom at heart. 

Sarah and Kyle recently moved to Charleston, SC.  Kyle is a C-17 pilot with the United States Air Force.  He fishes whenever possible.  Sarah works for Cultural Homestay International.  In South Carolina she will continue to match foreign exchange students with host families as well as develop this new territory for CHI.   Both of them enjoy camping and cooking.  They are doing well but we miss them.

Janel recently (7/31/10) married Ryan and they live in San Mateo, CA.  She completed her Sign Language training and will work as an interpreter in her local school district.  Ryan has a technical support job with a business software firm.  As with Sarah and Kyle, we wish they lived nearby so we could see them more often.  But… the wedding was awesome!