The Taylors

Here is our family, complete with our 23 year old son, Benjamin and our dog, Kip! We are grateful for God’s goodness to all of us. We are so undeserving!

Our son, Benjamin, a graduate of Bob Jones University, presently lives in Easley, SC and is working to pay off a small amount of college debt. He is involved in ministry at Palmetto Baptist Church in Powdersville, SC and leads a men’s evangelistic team called The Master’s Men. Our opportunities to get together are sometimes rare – we treasure them whenever we can coordinate our schedules to visit.

On Saturday, May 7 our son, Benjamin graduated from Bob Jones University. We are so grateful for the Lord’s provision to make this accomplishment possible. Over the past four years, Benjamin was busy with classes, working for Campus Security, participating in his local church and leading two ministry teams, The Master’s Men (a men’s quartet that spends many weekends preaching and singing) and Team IMPACT (a karate ministry team). On Friday, May 6, at the Awards Program, Benjamin received the “Evangelism Award” – given to the young man who exemplifies a heart for evangelism. The award came with a gift of $2,500 and a lifetime membership to the BJU Alumni Association. We wiped away a few tears of gratefulness to the Lord!

Through God’s special provision, our son, Benjamin was able to visit us for a week in March while we were in language school in Costa Rica. Ben graduates from Bob Jones University on May 7, 2011.

We were thankful that our son, Ben, was able to be with us for Christmas. We all enjoyed the comforts of our new trailer and having a third person in the trailer worked out just fine. We are grateful for the time we have been able to be together over the past few weeks.

We were able to spend Christmas with Herb’s parents who spend half of their year in Davenport, FL. We parked our trailer in the same RV park and enjoyed several days of activities, food and visiting together with them. Most of our days were quite cold – just didn’t have the snow of up north.

Herb loves the donuts his Mom used to make, so together we as a family made donuts over Christmas vacation. Here our son, Ben, is showing his expertise in cutting the dough. No matter how careful we try to be, it’s always a messy job – but it makes Herb happy!

We were able to spend a special evening together as a family on Tuesday, July 27. It is hard to believe that our son, Benjamin will soon be returning to Bob Jones University for his senior year of college.