July 7th, 2008

So what's new with the Riggs? About three weeks ago Randy & I were able to make a trip home to Indy for a suprise Anniversary party that the Riggs children have been planning for the past 6 months or so. Yes, Dale & Vicki Riggs celebrated 40 years of marriage this past month.

It was so wonderful to celebrate a marriage that has held together through keeping their lives centered on the Lord. We praise the Lord with Mom & Dad Riggs for their hard work and commitment to the Lord and their marriage. God is Good!

While we were in town we also had the pleasure of visiting with our friends from Indy, Knightstown & church. We joined our First Church group in Indy to watch an Indians game. We had such a great time catching up with everyone. We are so blessed to be surrounded by such great friends. We see God at work in each of their lives and it's so exciting to share in that with them.

We were also able to visit with Randy's old co-workers at his Hinsey-Brown boss's surprise 40th Birthday party. It was so wonderful to share with them how our ministry at Mooseheart is going. Randy checkes the obits often to see how they are doing. Although he has changed profession his heart is still with them and we pray for God's blessing on Hinsey-Brown. Happy 40th Kevin!

I admit it was difficult for me to re-adjust to life back at Mooseheart after such a great visit home. The Lord has been great to us and provided us with wonderful friends right off the bat. I just find myself home sick for our Church and Church family. I just have to keep reminding myself that this home sickness for our Church is the very reason we are here. To share with these girls what that would/could feel like. To find a love that's so great they don't know how to live without it. The love of the Lord that never fails and grace that is new every day.

Please continue to be in prayer with us that we may see every opportunity to show Gods love to these girls. That we would find a church off campus that would fill a void in their lives that they can't help but desire the Lord to be a part of their lives. Also pray that we would be able to implement more activities into the home that would image the Lord, i.e. Christian video's, bible study, prayer time.

On that note; I know some of you have been asking if there is anything the girls here are in need of that you could buy and donate. In all honesty these girls have their every need provided for. However, if you would want to help in regards to our minstry here we would like to have a bible for each girl here at the house for their use, The Message translation that is. The girls have access to Bible's but have a very difficult time understanding even the more modern translations, as they have no background to base their reading on. One of the girls just recently made this complaint to us and we would like to make something available to them that would encourage them to read. We have a total of nine girls in the home. Also we would love to start a collection of Nooma video's by Rob Bell to watch with the girls and any teen girl related devotionals or books (even fiction would be great).

-Hannah-