About MeDan and Stephanie met in January of 2000 while attending SBU. As they got to know each other they started dating. In January 2002, Dan purposed to Stephanie asking her to spend the rest of her life with him. She said yes and the story begins. August 10th, 2002, Dan and Stephanie were married in font of a large gathering of family, friends, and church members at First Baptist Church in Warrensburg Mo. For their Honeymoon they were blessed to go on a seven day cruise to Cozumel, Grand Cayman Island and Ocho Rios Jamaica. On March 22nd, 2004 Dan and Stephanie became parents to Josiah. When Josiah was a baby, he was very passive and seemed to pick things up pretty quickly. On May 13th, 2007 Mothers Day, Dan and Stephanie became parents again to Jackson. Jackson is our miracle baby. Born with Morganella, and now dealing with random seizures that the neurologist says he should grow out of when he’s 3 or 4. This has kept us on our knees, and we believe that God has a special plan for him. The Gould’s are currently in transition from Plano TX, where Dan served Grace Community Church as the Studentu0026hellip;
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A Christ Follower[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxfaMqBsPKYu0026amp;hl=en_USu0026amp;fs=1u0026amp;] I am thrilled that you’ve checked out his blog and this page for that matter. I want to take just a moment and share with you about the most important decision you could ever make! Because this is so important, I have dedicated this page to explain how you can have a relationship with God. Here are some basics to get you started thinking about making a life-changing decision for Jesus Christ: 1. God created us because He LOVES us and wants us to ENJOY a personal relationship with Him. “Even before the world was made, God had already chosen us to be His through our union with Christ . . . because of His love, God had already decided that through Jesus Christ He would make us His children – this was God’s pleasure and purpose.” Ephesians 1:4-5 2. HOWEVER, there is a problem! You see, God is perfect, and we are imperfect! The Bible calls this imperfection “SIN.”* Our sin separates us from God, and it results in a consequence. That consequence is eternal separation from God.** The only way for us to enjoy a relationship with God is for us to be perfect ourselves–but nobody isu0026hellip;
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Galveston Mission Trip – Day 5: Purpose

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“Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your earthly possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home.” Luke 16:9 (NLT)

“If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.” Matthew 10:39 (NLT)

We have had a great week with a lot of sun and great worship times at night. Today we had our teams in three locations, here at Alamo, VBS, and Construction.

At the construction site we got all of our supplies after Lowes made us wait for 4 hours because of lack of communication. This caused us to only get half of the fence done. But the good news is we should have it completed on Thursday. Just a note, almost every girl that has come to the construction site, has worked harder than most of the boys!!!

At VBS we had a low number again and have learned a lot. Trying to use this as a teaching tool for the adults and students there and relating how you have great plans and to see great things happen and when they don’t happen that way how to not give up and persevere through the challenge.

At Alamo, some of our students cleaned toilets for the first time. Their objective was to work on the needs here that sometimes get overlooked because all of the construction guys/gals go to work sites. They were also supposed to help unload all the new supplies that have been ordered but not yet arrive.

It’s been a good week. We topped off the midway with a meal at a local food place called The Spot! Great food, lots of it! Here are some of the pics from today: