A City Life For Me

We have started a blog/website to keep people updated on our deputation progress, and later on our ministry in the Bronx.  It is called Modern Nineveh .  Read more about the name here .  From now on, all ministry related posts will be published on Modern Nineveh . We have also switched over to a newsletter email service to make delivery of our PRayer Letters more easy.  If you were previously receiving our {very sporadic} updates, we have added you to the new mailing list.  If you no longer wish to receive the updates, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.  If you would like to be added to our new mailing list, please click here and follow the instructions. We also have a new prayer card and are in the process of selecting a printer! {front} {back}

It’s been a long couple of weeks here in the Hamilton Household.  We have all been sick for about 11 days now.  Before that we were traveling, so it’s been a while since I posted a Wordless Wednesday!  Here are a few pictures to catch up until I can post about Elaine’s Birthday and a few other happenings! First Snow of the Season! Liberty is close to sitting up by herself! Nehemiah gets a ride in the Tonka Truck! {Daddy was supervising…}

We have this shape sorter toy that has a removable lid.  It’s just about the right size to be a “helmet” for the babies.  I think my mom started this with Elaine, then we did it to Nolan too, and now I often look up to discover that one of the kiddos has put the lid on Liberty’s head! ~Elaine~ 5.5 months   ~Liberty~ 6.5 months

This is a milestone in and of itself – I am posting on the twinsies’ actual “birthday”!  Today the twins are six months old!  Yesterday they were wearing their “Little Brother” and “Little Sister” shirts so I set them on the bed for a couple of pictures! Is it okay if I hold his toes, Mommy? Nehemiah was looking at Elaine – she wanted to help make them smile! THis is the we-are-both-teething-and-chewing-on-our-lips pose.  Both kiddos are really teething – hard!  Nehemiah can easily drench several bibs a day.  They are cranky, and not napping much at all.  This makes Mommy cranky, too. Nehemiah is crawling.  Sometimes it’s a real crawl, but much of the times it’s a combination of army crawl, determination, and a giant lunge forward to get what he wants.  He is all over the floor, getting into bags, and annoying his sister.  He wakes up singing in the mornings and is still a generally happy baby.  See his crawl ...

Tea Parties: It didn’t take long to discover that Nolan does tea parties about like the beast in “Beauty & the Beast.”  Gotta work on table manner! The Stoic… …found her smile! Big Sister Storytime

As I mentioned, we traveled last week to Alabama to interview with Baptist World Mission as church planters to the Bronx.  I wanted to share a little bit about that process. The Baptist World Mission Board of Trustees We actually had to submit our information by August 15th.  Ben and I completed separate applications, including some doctrinal questions, our testimony, our call to the mission field, and six references.  Ben had to complete a more in-depth doctrinal statement.  We both had to have medical exams and submit some other information.  The in person interview was just the last step in the process of getting approved by the board. The conference started Monday morning with a doctrinal review.  There were four applying missionaries that had to be reviewed – two couples (one of them was us!) and two individual ladies.  We appeared before 3 board members and answered doctrinal questions to be sure that we are in agreement with BWM....

Elaine had a good time entertaining the babies while I vacuumed…she was trying to read a book to them, but they are just a little too grabby right now!