It was only a matter of time...

As we get close, it's time to celebrate one of the best routines ever:

Head and shoulders, knees and toes (knees and toes!)

If you look closely, you can clearly make out Eugene's traffic stopping good looks:

And here are the toes, which Rachel's ribs refer to as 'weapons of mass destruction': (you may remember these from this earlier post)

  Eugene weigh's about 6.5 pounds, which puts him right about on schedule.  They said he's in the 49th percentile for size, so he's just about average.  He's getting mediocrity out of the way early to prepare for his career as the most amazing person ever.  (Which will hopefully make him fabulously wealthy so he can support his parents, too.)  There's no evidence that says he will be arriving any time soon--they can't say that for certain, but they say that things look good for an arrival date around the end of September/beginning of October.  Until then, Rachel is practicing her breathing and thinking positive thoughts, while I'm sleeping as much as possible!

Honeydew

  For the next week and a half, Octavious is the size of a honeydew melon.  If Rachel were to stand in front of the car at night, the headlights would cause his tiny little eyes to dilate.  If she were to sing to him, he can recognize and react to simple songs.  (Hence the reason I don't sing often around her--we don't want him to be born early in an attempt to flee the womb, thinking he can escape my voice!)

  It's all so amazing to consider--he's truly a little person in there, and as the time goes on he grows nearer to the form and qualities he will have when he is no longer in the womb.  All the parts are there and continue to develop, and Rachel and I stand in awe as we await the delivery of God's gift into our lives.

  We get an ultrasound next Tuesday, and I am so excited about that--we'll be able to see what God has been doing inside her, and we'll marvel at the little man we are about to meet, and wonder how God does such amazing things.

9/1 New Hope E-News

Announcements

No Scheduled Worship at New Hope This Week (9/4)

Elder Nominations have begun!  Please be in prayer for our nominating committee, and if you have people in mind you’d like to see as leaders in the church, submit their names to Gerai Kocher.  Please talk to them first!

The Church Office will be closed on Monday in celebration of Labor Day.

Open Table is a group of young adult-types (post-college age to 40-ish (we don’t check id’s)) within the area who will gather around tables (restaurant tables, dinner tables, coffee tables, pool tables, picnic tables, etc) for friendship, discipleship, service and more.

Open Table Kickoff Picnic – Saturday, September 10, 4:30 - ?, Chickamauga Dam and Recreational Area (Take the Amnicola Exit off of Hwy 153.)

Bring a dish to share, camp chairs, picnic blankets, Frisbees, etc. We will provide drinks, plates, cups, utensils.

This event is for the whole family. Come early to swim if you’d like.

Open Table Dinner at Las Margaritas – Tuesday, September 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m., (4604 Skyview Dr., Chattanooga, TN 37416 – just off Hwy 58); dutch treat.

Free child care provided at Northminster Presbyterian Church (parents can drop off at 6:15 p.m.)

New Hope News

Lynn Meyer will be taking part in the Susan Komen Race for the Cure this year on September 25.  If you’d like to offer support, you can visit her page and offer a financial support.  Wouldn’t it be pretty cool, though, if a bunch of New Hopers got together and walked with her?  There is a 5k run/walk at 2:00.  Lynn plans to walk this.  There is also a 1 mile fun run and walk at 2:05 if you would prefer to do that.  (Just a note—if you open the link in Google’s Chrome browser, it may be in Greek.  I don’t know why, but just try the link in another browser.  The internet is a strange, strange place.)

Pray for…

Polly Black

Those attending Family Camp

Roger & Lynn Meyer

Links

Should Christians do yoga?

The picture of devotion

Will bodes one day be liquefied?

The Presbyterian Response to Hurricane Irene

The Vocation of Motherhood

Text for next Week (9/11)
Luke 19:41-48

Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

 As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, ‘If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you, and hem you in on every side. They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.’

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

 Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; and he said, ‘It is written,
“My house shall be a house of prayer”;
   but you have made it a den of robbers.’

Every day he was teaching in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him; but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were spellbound by what they heard.

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