New Year, New Beginnings

 The year of 2010 brought a lot of changes for us in the Jordan household.  A few weeks after the Summer Beach Project the Lord called us off staff and we made a very quick move to Augusta, GA.  As 2011 begins we have several other new beginnings as well!  BJ will begin working for State Farm this month and we also just found out that we are pregnant with our first little girl.  This will definately bring on a new change for the Jordan household.

We have loved living in Augusta, with our new Church home, living near some old friends, and family members.  However, the transition off staff was very emotional and a huge transition for us.  We are looking forward to the new year and learning about ministering in the Church and in our new vocation.  The boys are going to MDO twice a week and the boys enjoy it immensely!  Last summer I began working for an online website, SavingsLifestyle.com, and I have enjoyed it too!

I plan on taking more time to hopefully keep up our family blog, especially since the last time I posted was the summer.  This is one thing I love about the New Year, wiping the slate clean from the year before, and having new goals and vision for the upcoming year.  I hope to share some of these later this week.

I hope your New Year has some great New Beginnings as well!

Back To The Beach!

BJ will be heading back to Daytona Beach today to help close out the Beach Project!  The boys and I are not heading back to the beach, because we felt like it would be a little too much to pack us all up for just a week.  This will free BJ up to close out the logistics of the Project and to get some good time in with the students.  The boys and I are looking forward to some adventures together in the upcoming week.  I hope all is well with your summer and that you are enjoying time with your family and friends too!  Also, I hope to have some pictures to share with you from the end of the Summer Beach Project after BJ returns!

Post-SBP Update

I am sorry that it has been 2 weeks since I last updated you on what is going on with the Jordans!  Since my last post in Daytona we have traveled back to the 'Boro and have been there for a little over a week now. Currently, we are in Atlanta for the 4th of July! We will be here for the weekend and then head back to the 'Boro.  Then, we will be heading back to Daytona in a few weeks to help finish out the Beach Project.

We did have some fun times at the end of the Beach Project!  One fun event was going to Sea World with the boys.  I wanted to share some pictures from our time there:

Trey and I checking out the Stingrays!

Today, BJ took Trey out to watch the Braves play!  Here are some super cute pics of their time:

There are some changes going on with our family, and I am hoping to be able to share more about them in the next few weeks as we learn more ourselves!

Hoping you and your family have a wonderful 4th of July!

SBP Prayer

"Be joyful always; pray continually"

1 Thessalonians 5:16-17

One thing that we want to emphasis on the Beach Project is the value of prayer in a believer's life.  One venue for this is our weekly prayer time on Sunday evenings.  The students gather to pray for an hour as a project.  There are other venues such as team prayer, and prayer within their rooms that are great for the students to learn how to pray.  They also are learning that prayer is an integral part of a our lives as Christians.  This past Sunday they had a great time of worship and prayer on the beach as a project.

Please continue to pray for the growth of these students in becoming lifetime prayer warriors!

SBP Picture

Just to give you a picture of the students that are taking part of the Summer Project this year.  It has been such a joy to be around these young believers as they are STRIVING to know the Lord!

(We are on the right hand side)

Here is a picture of us taken after the

SBP group picture:

Thanks for being a part of investing in the lives of these students. 

SBP Sweethearts

I wanted to share this sweet picture with you all.  Josiah and baby Emma hanging out in a floaty last week.  A couple of our babysitters thought this would make a cute picture.  Of course it was staged, but they are so sweet!

Tuesday Project Dinners

One of the aspects of the Summer Beach Project is the community of fellowship and learning from one another.  There are several venues for this built into the Project, the Project Dinner being one of them.  Every Tuesday, all of us disperse to different eating locations to have a great meal and an encouraging dinner.  The different eating locations are: Dustin's Barbeque (similar to Sonny's), CiCi's Pizza, and we cater Moe's to the hotel.

We ate at Dustin's this week with two Georgia Southern students.  It was delicious food and great conversations.  Here are some pictures of our night:

Dinner with the boys, Katie and Mike

Kaitlyn (staff) eating with students

More students and leaders