We have gone "green" with our family newsletter!

What do I mean by green? Well we are going to save at least 1000 sheets of paper! And not to mention the other kind of green...$$$ We hope you have found us because you have received our recent family picture. We love it and hope it has blessed you. Be sure to visit our blog site as often as you can, and promise to stay in touch!

Click on the following link to view our Christmas Letter for 2007

Christmas Newsletter 2007

We love you!

Chris and Beth Flores

From Brand New to Homeword

I don't know when it was, but when I finally found it, I was hooked. I was very surprised that I found talk radio so fascinating, especially when I found 93.9 FM KPDQ. If you know me well enough I absolutely love to sing! Not only do I love to sing, but I love to sing to God! I would always listen to music until I found this uplifting, informative talk radio program. I'd would find myself rushing to the van earlier than I really need to be there in order to hear the next sermon by Bill Ritchie on his Brand New Radio Program, and then I would listen to Georgine Rice on the way home....good stuff! Anyway the point of this blog is I got bummed this morning because I realized that it had been since Wednesday since I heard Bill Ritchie's really good sermons, I noticed I wasn't rushing to the car since I started full time at the gallery, That's because I was going to the gallery at 12 , but now I needed to leave around 8:30. So leaving bummed about missing Bill, I get in my car and wonder if I should return to music, cause I did just spend an unusual amount of time working on my Ipod last night (1 a.m-what was I thinking). Well the car was already on my favorite station of talk radio and low and behold I found another program that was very uplifting to my day. So now I can't wait for the rush again to listen to Homeword with Jim Burns....it was very good...(It was called the "Power of being there"!) And I needed to hear this one.... aren't they just so timely. I also learned they both have podcast, so I still can hear Bill Ritchie, just harder to find the time, listening in the car is preferrable it does help to deal with the slow traffic!

Sherwood Bound

God has been working in mighty ways this year. I am so excited to be where God has taken our family. I intended to blog about how we got to this point and I kept going further and further in the past of the great things that have happen that have gotten us here. At the same time it just seems that I cannot go on without glorifying God for each and every one of those growth moments. GLORY TO GOD! So, without explaing every growth moment in detail I can definitely say that all these moments had a centralized theme which is CHANGE. This change required me to truly "die to self" and to truly allow God to transform and sanctify me. The more I allowed HIM to change me, the more I saw that I needed change, that I needed God. I wasn't doing this alone either, Beth also was allowing God to work in mighty ways. Left and right things were changing for us and during all these changes I began to think, the Lord is definitely preparing my family for something. Have you ever had those moments when you just knew this was the direction you were to go. I have, especially when I knew I was going to marry Beth. Well, it happened again for the both of us at the same time. We just knew!

Here is what we have been preparing for...

On September 2nd, Stan Granburg was our special speaker for church service. He spoke about his ministry Kairos. Kairos is a church planting ministry and they were introducing the lead church planters for a church plant in Sherwood (8 miles away). Things like this always are exciting to me, but when Beth and I looked at each other, we both knew instantly this was something we wanted to do. We contacted Wilson immediately and met with him and his wife, and prayed a lot, cause this was going to require us to leave a church family we really love. Well as you may have guessed we committed to be on the team for the church plant. We are so excited for this OPPORTUNITY that God has been preparing us for. We are excited for this new chapter in our life.

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19

OPPORTUNITY: an appropriate or favorable time or occasion