Concert tickets now available...

Yes indeed! Tickets are now available online for our upcoming concert benefitting Hayden's Helping Hands.

You can also mail your ticket order (check or money) order to the following:

Noel Bisceglia
P.O. Box 935
Oregon City, OR 97045
 If you mail in your order, please be sure to include your name, number of tickets (children & adults), email address and/or phone number. We will hold your ticket(s) at will call.

Camp Dwight 2011

O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. Psalm 34:3

Camp Dwight was an uplifting weekend! There was time to get to know old friends better and meet new ones, time for relaxation and work, time for sports and music.

Noah spent hours on the volley ball court.

Noah discovered this pine tree while on a short hike.

 Singing "All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir" on talent night.

Chris on the keys.

Janna takes a harp solo on "The Entertainer". [Sorry you can't see Sarah in this shot.]

 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners for the annual 5k run! These guys were really fast.

The volunteer team of race officals. It was great to a part of this group. We were all up and working by 6:00 that morning. I spent the duration of the race at the halfway station giving water to the runners and cheering them on. It was such fun!!

Some of the most memorable moments for me at Camp Dwight this year aren't captured here... getting up with the sunrise to set up the race course after just a few hours sleep, being a part of the congregational hymn singing, dancing in the barn in the evening, singing and playing hymns past 1:00am, spraining my ankle (and dancing more anyway), then icing it for a few hours, and talking around the warm campfire in the cool of the night.

~Kathrina

Benefit Concert August 20, 2011

We will be doing a special concert to benefit Hayden's Helping Hands, on August 20th, 2011. This foundation was founded by our friends after the heartbreaking death of their baby to assist families with the medical costs after the birth of a stillborn child. We are honored to be supporting this cause with our concert this summer.

It will be held at Classic Pianos Recital Hall, 3003 SE Milwaukie Avenue, Portland, OR 97202. The concert will begin at 7:00pm.

Tickets cost $14 for adults in advance /$7 for children age 14 & under. At the door tickets will cost $16 for adults/$9 for children age 14 & under.

More details about this special concert will follow!

Coming Soon....

...a photo shoot with Whispering Roses and the lovely Christa Taylor.

Independence Day Memories

We were thrilled that our friends were once again hosting an Independence Day celebration on their 60-acre farm, after skipping it last year.

 Even though they didn't have a pie contest this time, I made a beautiful (and delicious!) strawberry pie for the shared meal.

 Our annual jam session with Randy, the banjo player!

 Singing hymns around the campfire.

 Roasting S'mores around the campfire in the evening - looking at this photo makes me want some more!

 After dark, when the light is dim and the cold air makes us draw closer to the fire, our hearts seem to draw closer as well.  About ten young people stayed up until 2:00am sharing laughter, humor, and discussing some of life's toughest questions.

It was wonderful.

In the morning a beautiful sunrise greeted us!  No sleeping-in when you are in a tent!

~ Janna

Scenic Roots!

We so enjoyed getting to spend time with Erin and Amber - the sisters who formed the band Scenic Roots. Thanks to all who came to their first Oregon concert!!

Playing "The Butterfly"

Singing "Come Thou Fount" together. The music we did together was a special highlight of the concert!

One Ring to Rule Them All

 When the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, and the Return of the King first came out in theatre we weren't aware of it. Yes, we'd heard the name - friends had told us to read the books - but we hadn't done it. Then, one autumn we journeyed to Middle Earth while reading the books together. It changed our lives, honestly. And so, when we heard that the films were being played in theatre again, after all these years, we were thrilled! It was amazing and exciting and fun to see these movies in theatre!

 All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost.

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadow shall spring.

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall king.

Independence Day Weekend 2011

The Star Spangled Banner
By Francis Scott Key, 1814

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!