Luke has returned for the Holidays from the Bible college
he's attending
in Capetown, South Africa. He needs
sponsorship in order to attend this
coming year if you would like to help.
Thanks.
Caleb travels with Becky on StraightWay's
outreach team in the schools, and has become
quite the speaker/performer.
Faith, now 15, now also travels with the
StraightWay Team (to public schools) and is
taking piano (following in her big sister,
Melody's footsteps.
Jordan spent the summer playing on a
tournamentl basketball team,
sponsored by Brandon Bass (one of the Dallas
Mavericks) and Nike. They played tourna-ments in Memphis,
Alabama, Las Vegas and Kingwood, where
hundreds of other college teams compete for
scholarship offers from the many Division 1
college coaches that attend. Now, he's
playing on a basketball and academic
scholarship at a college in Missouri.
Hollis, now 10 and in 4th grade, plays
basketball too at the YMCA
Ashley attends Wharton Jr. College, and is
making a missionary trip with Mission
Possible (Milan, Italy) to Cambodia in
August. I'm sure she will appreciate
any sponsorship for the trip that she's
offered.
Matthew
returned home from his second tour of duty
in Iraq, and will be finishing his stint
with the Army later this year. He
plans to move to Las Vegas.
First,
let me say, "Happy Holidays"!
We just had our 34th StraightWay
Annual Banquet at the Marriott Hotel
in Sugar Land, and what a great
night we had. The night was a
tribute to my mother, "Gramma"
Dorothy Kirschke, who has given over
25 years of her life to this
ministry. The children's choir, special music,
the StraightWay
Outreach with video presentations
and Graduation ceremony with graduate testimonies
made an event-packed evening
to remember! I'll post
pictures from the banquet and the
video tribute to Mom later.
As the
"News" column to the left states, we
now have three children in college,
so I'm officially "broke" -ha.
Luke just returned for the Holidays from a year in college in
Capetown, South Africa, and Matthew has already
returned from Iraq. After two
tours in Iraq, he is now officially
out of the Army (for now, at least).
Jordan
received an academic and athletic
scholarship to play basketball at a
college near St. Louis, Missouri, so
I will now how to drive about 15
hours to see his games.
Obviously, I won't be making them
all. But, thank the Lord, the
price of gasoline has gone down ...
just in time! My third college
student, Ashley, works at Chili's
and is attending college locally,
and will be transferring to Texas
State college in New Braunfels, near
San Antonio.
That
brings me to the youngest three
still at home: Caleb, Faith and
Hollis.
Caleb,
my outdoorsmen and buddy hunter, is
now 16 and is traveling full-time
with the StraightWay Team that goes
into the public schools. He is
also a hard worker, and helps Dad in
our newest project, making stone-top
tables. You can see the
beginnings of this new effort by
clicking on "www.stonetoptables.com."
Faith is
now 15, and is the sweetest girl one
could have (not that she doesn't
have her usual "teen" moments).
She is a doll, talented, and also
travels with StraightWay. She wants
to do some modeling, and the first
of November she and Caleb will be
auditioning in Dallas for the Pro
Scout agency (after passing the
"first round" of interviews, etc. in
Houston). She also sings,
home-schools (so she can go on the
road) and helps Mom cook.
Hollis, our little MiracleBoy, just
had his 11th Birthday, and got a
little 4-wheeler that he and Caleb
can ride on the 50 acres of open
land behind our house. I have a
feeling Caleb will be using it for
hunting---he's already shot a doe
bow-hunting. The
venison-stroganoff was delicious.
Hollis is now in 5th Grade. I
will be getting up there in age
(just a little) when he goes into
college. I wonder: "Will I
ever get to retire?" I get the
feeling I won't.
One more
thing: The day after Christmas I'll
be leaving for Israel to work with
Dr. Scott Stripling (one of our
LifeWay elders, who is an
archaeologist and teaches now for
the Sugar Land school system & Univ.
of Phoenix) in Jerusalem on the
Gabay Barkay's Antiquities Salvage
Operation at the Temple Mount.
In case you're interested, here are
some links to the project:
I am
still trying to finish
this entire website, and hopefully I
can before the Holidays are finished---rebuilding it from the "ground
floor up."
New
pictures, new links, new videos,
and some innovative slide shows will
keep
you entertained as well as
informed with all the new escapades
of the Kirschke Family.
Pictures
will continue to be uploaded
and can be seen
by clicking on "Photo Album" in
the left Table of Contents.
Some
links in the contents at left are
not active yet, but will be
hopefully before 2009 -ha! So ... as you check
back from time to time, you will
find more features and items of
interest available.
Enjoy your visit, and please come
back and visit again soon ... and
drop us a line in the meantime.
We would love to hear from you!
God
Bless you, and have a Blessed
Christmas Season!
