Rylee's Baptism

On Wednesday, May 18th, Rylee was baptized by her bible teacher Mr. Mac. It was a beautiful baptism and I think Mr. Mac said 23 kids were baptized.




After each child was baptized, they waited for the rest to be baptized.

Some dad's baptized their children and Hannah wanted her dad to baptize her, but he was in the states last Wednesday, so Hannah is going to be baptized tomorrow, May 25th.
Chelsea was there too!
Rylee and Mr. Mac! The Lord used Mr. Mac and his daughter Chelsea in a tremendous way in Rylee's life. We are so grateful for their families friendship and the love the Lord has given them for Rylee!Rylee and Mrs. Mac!
Kyra, in the green, was also baptized. The other girls came to watch.
Rylee's guitar teacher, Mr. Cheock, was there as well. Mrs. Cheock, in the picture below is Rylee's art teacher. The Cheocks are a beautiful family!!

Fighting a Fire

Chris just got home from helping Pastor Better at the Arthur Center put out a fire. Philippine firefighters arrived on the scene a few minutes before Chris to help as well, but ran out of water. So Chris and Pastor carried buckets of water from the Arthur Center to the fire to put it out. Chris thinks they got it contained. Pastor thinks the fire was started from someone throwing their cigarette butt into dry weeds behind the Arthur Center's building. And because of this being hot season right night, everything is very dry! Thankfully, nothing serious was burned or ruined. Chris said it sparked his desire to be a firefighter even more!

Annie

Faith Academy put on the production of Annie this April. It was wonderful! Rylee went all 3 nights to the play. She had a few friends in the play, Hannah, Kameron, and Alex and more.
One of the nights, the girls got dressed up to go to the play.
Hannah was the orphan Pepper and Alex, in the red, was also an orphan.

Chelsea, the senior in between Rylee and Hannah, was Annie. Chelsea has been discipling Rylee the last couple of months. They meet once a week after school. We have been blessed to have Chelsea in Rylee's life!

Chris and Pastor Better

Chris was able to get a picture with Pastor Better this week after bible study. Please be praying for Pastor Better, his family and the Arthur Center.

Paid in Full!

The Lord has blessed us with an anonymous donor for Rylee's braces. A couple of weeks ago at Rylee's ortho appointment, I was informed by Dentist Diane that someone has paid for the rest of Rylee's braces in full!! And that she wasn't allowed to tell me who it was and to please not ask and make her tell me because she can't say! (She's so cute :) )

So, as you can imagine, we were in awe of the Lord!

Because of this blessing, the Lord opened the door for us to use the rest of the money we had saved and put aside for Rylee's braces for something else. It turns out that the amount we had left to pay on the braces was the exact amount we were going to sell Chris' motorbike for. So, instead of selling the motorbike, we donated it to First Love, and Eddie, Chris' ministry partner, will use the bike.

We are so excited for Eddie to have the bike. We believe this will be a huge asset for him!

Braces

As you have probably already seen from previous pictures, Rylee has braces! Dentist Diane is giving us a discount for the braces that we couldn't pass up! Not only is dental care much cheaper here in the PI, with Dentist Dianes discount we are paying a fourth of what braces cost in the states. And since Rylee's teeth aren't pretty straight, Dentist Diane thinks she will probably only need to wear them for about 6 months.Rylee's top teeth are already completely straight!

Zooxanthellae

Rylee's science teacher taught her and her class many things about the ocean before they went to Out Door Ed. To help the kids remember information they learned, Mr. Bugbee, Rylee's science teacher, and one of the seniors who went on Out Door Ed taught the kids a song. Someone outside of Faith Academy wrote the song, but Mr. Bugbee added the last lyric to the song, which Rylee thought was pretty cool. Rylee is in this video more, so I hope you enjoy!

Faith Academy OE - Xooxanthellae 2011 from Crystal Missler on Vimeo.