Barbara's Visit

Went to the Dove Awards

Made us authentic Mexican food

Helped film a video for Brock

Easter party

Went with us on the road several places including Texas.

Shot a gun for the first time.

Participated in a crazy scavenger hunt in Nashville.

Took a lot of pictures.

Went to Falls Creek Falls in east Tennessee.

Saw Alice in Wonderland in 3D

Met some of Brock's family including his grandma.

Participated in a chocolate tasting at the Cocoa Tree.

Did a lot of workouts (some Jillian which was a killer).

Experienced some snow.



Was a waitress at our Valentine's party.

Tasted vegimite that our Aussie friend, Joy, happened to have.

Attended a couple of Superbowl parties.

Canada Tour

We left yesterday for Canada. It's going to be a crazy schedule. We are performing for the Billy Graham crusade with Billy Graham's grandson, Will Graham Wednesday through Friday. We do school assemblies each day and perform at the event Saturday night in Lethbridge, Canada.

On Monday and Tuesday, we perform school assemblies with a full show Tuesday night in Barrhead, Canada. Wednesday, we travel all day way up to the Yukon (up by Alaska) to perform some school assemblies and a show Thursday. We come back home next Friday. Pray that it all goes well and that we adjust to the time and temperature changes.

Our Friend Paul

We got an email from our friend, Paul, whom we met in the Dominican Republic. To here more about Paul, go here. He is from Haiti and had family including a 7 year old son there whom he had not heard from 4 days after the earthquake. We did not know what to do for him except pray. Finally, he got word that his family was alive. Brock told him that if he ever needed anything to contact us. Recently, he did. He sent us an email saying that his father has cancer and needs treatment. After Brock sent him an email asking him how to give some money, Paul sent this email back. Realize that this was written in French, and translated by Barbara to English, so this went thru 3 different translations. Here it is:


Hello I am in God's name, and with the greatest respect I have for you because you are a person who loves your neighbor. I thank you very much for thinking in me.

But Mr. Gill I want you to give me the number of transfer if you can please. I'm going tomorrow morning. With the money I can start making some things for my father.

Mr Gil I can not tell you to give me money. This depends on your possibilities. The most important to me I want you to help me and my father is in prayer, because you have a gift. I want to change my life completely in order to overcome sin. Because as I have said, I was born in a Christian family, it's me who is in sin.


It sounds like he is close to giving his life to Christ. It also sounds like he was not asking for money but for prayer. He sees the value in it. Please pray for Paul and his family.

Birthday Parties and Going Away Parties

Last week, we celebrated Stephanie's birthday in polka dots. That was the theme. I think that I took the prize on being the most polka dotted!




Last night, after our Bible study session, Lindsey and I slipped downstairs and began setting up for a surprise birthday party for Sherri and a surprise going away party for Barbara. We set up half elegant birthday decorations and half fiesta decorations.

I had told Sherri about Barbara's party and Barbara about Sherri's party. Therefore, it did not matter that it was rather obvious we were doing something downstairs because each of them thought it was for the other. I also put each one in charge of making sure the other stayed upstairs until I was ready for them to come down. I must admit, it was a pretty good plan. They were both surprised!This was Barbara saying, "For me???"
Then, Sherri went right around the table to join us in saying surprise before she realized it was for her too!

Busy Weekend

We have a crazy busy few days. Friday, we had meetings all day. After our dinner meeting, the four of us, John, Barbara, Brock, and me, drove to Knoxville, TN for the night. That way, we only would have a 4 hour drive the next day to get to Mooresville, TN where our show was that night.

Early in the morning, we were sleeping in lala land (actually I was dreaming I was in Harpers Island, which is the setting of this thriller TV show Brock and I had been watching). As I was sitting on the beach in my dream, I hear this awful, blaring buzz going on and off. Then, I feel Brock leave the bed and could hear Barbara giggling and saying, "What is this?" Apparently, they don't have fire alarms in Mexico. Just the time I got up out of the bed, the alarm stopped. Most of us did not really go back to sleep. That made for a tired day yesterday.

However, the show last night went great! I think we fed off the energy from the crowd. Now, I am sitting in my hotel in Marion, NC which is about an hour and a half from where we did the show last night. We have a 3 1/2 hour drive to Cleveland, TN where we will perform at Lee University tonight. After the show, we will drive the 2 1/2 hours home. Then, tomorrow morning, we go to a Compassion seminar which will last all day. Such is our life!

Spring Pics

Have you ever noticed that in the Spring, it's green everywhere but it's like a florescent green instead of the dark green of summer?

A Very Bad Financial Day

Last Tuesday was a killer! We had one truck in the shop and the other one we had left in town. So, we decided to take our motorcycle. It would not start. Then, we called John whom was at the shop with the truck. He told us that we could take his car, but the ac had gone out in our new truck. Oh no! That's over $1,000.

Then, we went to town, and a few minutes later found out that our hot water heater in our house had busted right then. We picked up a new one and had a guy come out and replace it. Then, we got another phone call. This was the dreaded one...it was from our tax guy. It was way worse than we thought. He informed us that we owe a lot of money in taxes this year because of, well, it's a long story.

Brock and I almost laughed at all of the things that had gone wrong. Later, I went to turn the TV on to try and escape a little in the mindless world of funny sitcoms, and the TV would not come to a full picture. This had been happening on and off, but if you hit it, it would work again. This time when I hit it, the TV actually shut off and began to sizzle. I was guessing that was not good, so I turned it off in case it caught on fire. That TV was toast!

Two Local Shows

We had a show in Murfreesboro, TN, which is only about a 35 minute drive from our house, Friday night. It was great to go such a short distance, do the show, and drive home. The only problem was that the show began at 10pm. Therefore, we did not get home until after 1am. The show went great, though.

Last night, we did a show in Nashville with Nathan Lee. We held it in his warehouse. It was great! There were so many different people in attendance that we don't usually get to hang out with. Brock's massage therapist came to the show, and some people from church whom we would like to get to know better. Even our pastor came to the show! Also there were local business owners and such whom never go to church in the audience. It was a blast for me! We stayed and hung out until midnight! Two late nights, but it was worth it!

Show with Nathan Lee

We are doing a very unique local show tomorrow night. We will be joining forces with the talented Nathan Lee.

Pics from the Easter Party

Videos from Easter

People received extra points in the Easter egg hunt if they participated in a challenge...

No Clumsy Rule

Friday night, some people were out on the back porch sitting around the fire. I went into our bedroom to grab something. I didn't want to turn on the light because it would cast out onto the porch ruining the glow of the fire. As I was headed out the door, I heard something slam and felt pain shoot down in my toes.

I turned on the light (not caring one iota anymore about protecting the glow of the fire) to examine my foot. It looked as if my right pinkie toe was turned slightly inward. I thought, "I have really done it this time! I broke it!" First of all, I have never broken a bone, so I did not know what it felt like. I tried to move it. I could, but it hurt. Then, Brock said that the thing about if you can move it, it's not broken is a myth.

So, here I was trying to get everything ready for Easter Saturday and my foot was swollen and tender. I took lots of breaks and iced it. Sunday, it felt a lot better but after being on it all day while entertaining guests, it was throbbing by the end of the day.

It's getting better and better everyday. We actually don't think it's broken but maybe sprained or something. After pulling my eyelashes out last week and now this, Brock said that he is going to make a "No clumsy rule." That's like saying to stop breathing for me. Much easier said than done, Mr. Gill.

Easter Party

There were 26 of us at the party yesterday. It was fun. We had some great food. Then, we prayed for a church in Florida and their efforts to purify the water in Peru and Africa. They are able to provide these water purification systems to towns for $400 a piece. We were able to buy at least one for them.

Then, we had our traditional Easter egg hunt. Two people got real eggs and they got a special chocolate bar. The plastic eggs counted as one point. In some of the eggs was a piece of paper with a challenge on it. If they did the challenge, they would get 5 extra points. It was fun! (Videos to come.)

The best part about the whole day was when we prayed over Jenna, our friend whom recently had brain surgery. First of all, I could not believe that she was able to come! Secondly, God is doing a mighty work in her through all of this. We went to pray for her, and she asked if we could pray for this little girl with cancer whom she saw in the newspaper and felt drawn to. She is amazing!

As we prayed over her, I could feel the sweet presence of the Lord fall down over all of us gathered. I, personally, was feeling very tired and drained...mainly because of my foot (more on that later). Usually, I feel so much power when I pray. Recently I have not felt that. As we prayed for Jenna, I just felt useless in my prayer. Then, I heard the gentle whisper of my Lord, "In your weakness I am strong." It sent shivers down my spine. It did not matter how I felt, the Lord was strong and present right there on our back porch!

Opened Hands

This was a great message by Andy Stanley about surrendering to the Lord. Go here to watch it.

April Fools!

Did you ever pull a really good April Fools Day joke? When I was in 5th grade, my teacher, Mrs. Cook asked my friend, Jennifer, and me to go to the office to get something for her. It happened to be April 1st, so I began forming a plan.

When we got back to the classroom, we did not enter first but the assistant principal entered shaking his head and frowning with us trailing humbly behind him looking at the ground as if we were in big trouble. He asked Mrs. Cook to talk with him. He tersely told us to take our seats while he talked with our teacher.

As I walked to my seat, I saw Mrs. Cook get very pale and timidly ask, "What's going on?" You see, Jennifer and I had never been in trouble in the classroom much less the office! The assistant principal filled her in on the joke rather quickly, but we got our teacher!!! Mrs. Cook was a very expressive black lady and yelled out, "Oooh! You had me going! I almost had a heart attack!" It was all our idea, but the assistant principal was very cooperative. I still remember that.