Many have asked for an update on our eleven year-old daughter, Sasha, whom we adopted last spring.  Her progress has been remarkable, to say the least.  Sasha’s understanding of English, her new surroundings, and her assimilation into our family have outpaced what most said we should expect.  Honestly, it is hard for Lauri and I to imagine that she has ever been anything but our girl.  Sasha is a sweet girl who is animated by a genuine love of life.

It has been Lauri, however, who has done the heavy lifting of educating Sasha.  When I say “educating Sasha”, I mean much more than you may assume.

A few weeks ago Lauri and I took our family to the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center.  It has been almost twenty years since I’ve been to a circus and I had forgotten the scale of the performance—jugglers, trapeze artists, acrobats, high wire acts, firewalkers, contortionists, lion tamers, cowboys, dancers, motorcycle stuntmen, strongmen, clowns, elephants, horses, tigers, and the list goes on.  It is quite overwhelming.

After almost a year of planning and preparation, we have completed our first Seeking 7 event. (Click here to pre-order CDs) For the uninitiated, Seeking 7 is a joint ministry of Fixed Point Foundation and Ravi Zacharias International Ministries.  It is an initiative whose sole purpose is to encourage and mobilize the faithful in America.

We believe that this mission was accomplished.