anniversary reflections

Happy Birthday Redeemer!

February 12, 2011
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We celebrated Redeemer Church of Dubai’s one-year anniversary last night. I am still in shock that it’s been a whole year since we launched the church! The evening celebration was wonderful and worshipful– some people were baptized, we sang our favorite songs, we heard testimonies about how peoples’ lives were changed through the ministry of [...]

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8 years! Is that all?

September 21, 2010
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Tonight we celebrated our 8-year wedding anniversary with plenty of laughter and too much food. As we reflected on the time that has past it seemed as though a whole lot of life has flown by in only a few moments. Strange, right? Per the usual with anniversaries of special days we re-traced our steps [...]

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2-year Sand-iversary!

August 23, 2010
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I was looking through my computer files for a year-old picture of our family and found this blooper. Why the trek down memory lane? Today is our 2-year Sand-iversary. 2 years ago today me, Dave and Aliza (and 4-months in-utero Baby Norah) clambored off of a 747 and onto the steaming tarmac of Dubai Int’l [...]

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Once upon a time I had a nail go through my eye…

May 13, 2010
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I don’t know why I haven’t I blogged this yet. The 9-year anniversary of getting a nail in my eye and having the surgery that saved my eye was last week. I commented about it on Facebook and realized that many of my friends don’t know this story. It’s a long and dramatic story, so [...]

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7 WonderFull years

September 21, 2009

To celebrate our seventh wedding anniversary today we are going on a date! Without. The. Kids. And in keeping with our anniversary tradition, we’ll be writing down all the incredible things God has done in our lives this past year. The paper will be put in the corresponding Year 7 silk mini-baggie to be kept [...]

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Our first Desert Anniversary

August 23, 2009

Five years ago this summer we stopped over in Dubai in between trips to China and Kenya and we said to ourselves, “What IS this intriguing place?” That fated trip was one piece of the puzzle that God had put together that we were slowly starting to see more and more of. And a year [...]

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6 years!

September 20, 2008

We celebrated our 6-year wedding anniversary this weekend! We spent the weekend in the big city and went to the mall for dinner. I know it sounds weird to go to the mall for dinner, but you won’t find any stand-alone restaurants out here (same goes for grocery stores). We had a thoroughly fun time [...]

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