Hi all we apologize heavily that it has taken us so long to post, but it has been a busy busy winter.
Here is a list of what has been happening since we last posted.
1) I, Austin, acquired an internship position at our home church, The Chapel, and have been working side by side with, Dan Sommer, the high school youth pastor to increase the reach of our high school youth group here in St. Joseph, MI as well as to increase the impact it has on the students within, challenging them to share their faith through an evangelism training group I got to design and run called The Core.
2) Kelsey has been working hard all the way to the end of 2013 and is still growing and maintaining her photography, videography, and design company called Maiko Media. She has booked well over 15 weddings this year and many more already for 2015. She even has a new and awesome website check it out here http://maikomedia.com/
3) We have got to see lots of family. In November 2013 we visited Kelsey's brother and sister in New York who just recently had their first baby, a healthy baby boy named David Masuda. In April of this year we visited my sister and her boys in Tennessee because my nephew Parker who is 1.5years old had a successful open heart surgery to fix a hole in his heart, and now along with his still huge smile has a nice scar running longways down his chest.
4) Lastly in the late winter Kelsey, I and our company Bound For Freedom found a brand new store front in our dream of downtown St. Joseph, MI. Located at 404 State Street, Bound For Freedom rolled onto the scene very unexpectedly after a local business closed down in mid January, we signed a lease at the end of February, renovated until mid April and opened on April 18th. Business has been so great already and the people of our hometown and surrounding areas have been so receptive and encouraging to us.
Thanks for all the love and support, hopefully this gives you a taste of what has been going on in our lives. Sorry that it has taken us so long to post, we hope to get back into the swing of things here shortly as we get settled into our normal routine here in St. Joseph, MI. God Bless.
