Pray for Frito

American Family Radio is currently doing a campaign to get listeners to pray for children in underdeveloped countries. All you do is go to www.worldvision.com, and select a child. They will send you an information packet about the child and his country so you will know specific needs. The only obligation is to pray for that child for 30 days!
It's an amazing campaign because we are instructed to pray for things like clean water, nutritious food, and educational materials. It helps the child, but it also helps us remember how fortunate we are, AND how much we take for granted! Even just surfing on the World Vision site is an amazing education!
'Our Child' is Frito Jean Pierre, a little 4-year-old from Haiti. His birthday is May 15th (our anniversary)! I invite you to pray for little Frito with us, or commit to your own child through World Vision.

Those Aren't Rain Clouds!!!

As we were leaving to go to Chapel this afternoon, we saw a fire truck headed out our way, so we looked back and saw the smoke of a huge fire! We couldn't really tell where the fire was located, but it looked like it could be close to our house, so we turned around and made a bee-line for the ranch. When we finally got to the ranch we found that the fire was about 3 miles south of the house and heading southwest. Hopefully the wind won't change to where it is headed towards the barns or the house. We keep the horses in the 'House Pasture' so they'll graze and keep the grass low, just in case! Anyway, there are 7 firefighters, 3 fire trucks, and Teryn working the fire right now.

The fire lasted about 6 hours and burnt up about 2 sections of land. We're not complaining though! Nothing was destroyed except lots of grass - it could have been sooo much worse! The firemen were able to weaken the fire, then when it tried to jump a dirt road, it fizzled and died! Teryn told me that every few years lightening hits that pasture and burns it! This picture was taken from the carport!

Ty and Friends

Clay's Exciting New Plans

We are very excited to let everyone know that Clay has new plans. He went to see Teryn Lee this weekend, and talk to different trainers in the hopes of getting a job working with horses. He wound up siging on with Clint Haverty, a world champion reining horse trainer. I've included a couple of websites below for those of you interested in learning more.
I'm inserting quotes from different sites that made me particularly happy!
“Mr. Haverty meticulously prepares both his students and horses for all phases of competition.”
"Clint is well known for his extraordinary generosity of spirit and willingness to help his fellow reiners in their time of need. For instance, when Tim Lynch was struggling with a serious back injury, Clint went to his farm, picked up several of his horses and continued the training process at no cost to Lynch. “Other trainers followed Clint’s lead,” says Lynch. “And we were not only able to meet our obligations, but we were also given a peace of mind that helped my recovery.”

It sounds like Clay's new boss is a top notch man, and horse trainer! He's already looking out for Clay's best interests by encouraging Clay to continue with college, and even told him that he could go to college on Mr. Hagerty's time!

Clay will be living near Denton, about 1 hour from Teryn Lee.

www.havertyranch.com
www.nrha.com/media/20050119a.html