Amy has jumped back into the outside workforce this year as well! After a previous career in teaching and 5 years of full time homeschooling our kids, Amy now teaches 2 days a week at Fideles Christian School which is referred to as a “homeschool school”. The kids are all enrolled there, and Amy is teaching 7th and 8th grade English. She and all the kids are loving it!

Caleb is included with everyone in school for the first time – he is in Kindergarten and excelling! He moved from North Metro preschool, and along with Mackenzie and Luke, are each one grade level ahead and doing very well. Along with jumping into school he also got to enjoy his first year in team sports playing baseball on the Volcanoes and in November, around his 5th birthday, he was accelerated into the Masters program at the Dojo, where we all take martial arts.

Mackenzie has done wonderfully in school, is very creative with her writing, and loves her new friends at school. At 7, she has become immersed in gymnastics over at GGA and has just been moved up to the next level – you just can’t stop her from flipping these days! Her passion to write creative and adventurous stories is an inspiration to Daddy in writing and illustrating our family children books.

Luke is growing into a strapping young lad. A couple of weeks ago he, after 4 years of dedication and hard work, he passed his Novice Black belt test – a tremendous feet, and was awarded it after a grueling, all-day physical test – a week before his 9th birthday! He continues to show gifting in building and engineering and we encourage him with as many LEGOs as can fit into a single home! Luke and Mackenzie will both be in the Church Christmas presentation this Christmas eve for all 4 services - in front of some 5000 people - please be praying for them and if you can, come cheer them on!

We are in our 8th year leading Small Groups at Crossroads Church. We have built some of most treasured and enduring friendships over the years from Small Groups. This year has been one of the most rewarding seasons in ministry. We are blessed to have a group that is living out Acts 2:46-47 and Hebrews 10:25. Tonight we even go caroling much to the chagrin of our neighbors! Truly though, we consider ourselves richly blessed to be with others dedicated to growing in their faith of Jesus Christ – and having a blast doing it!

September 17th, our extended family gathered at Jim’s Mother’s home in Dunwoody GA to reminisce and celebrate Jim’s Father, Rod, on his posthumous birthday. Unbelievably, the local newspaper, the Dunwoody Town Crier, had just come out with a large expanded edition about the formation of Dunwoody. There, on a two page spread, was the article with two large pictures of Rodney Wells from 40 years ago, credited with the fighting for, the formation of, and the founding Presidency of the Dunwoody Home Owners Association. Standing in front of the courthouse, an unwound scroll across the length of the courthouse steps full of signatures brought into the fold to insure a hometown of enduring great development, Rod Wells was there fighting for a greater cause, and serving his fellow man.