Emmaus Baptist Church Patriotic Concert...

After having been on the road for two weeks "Joyful Praise" came back to MN to sing in New Ulm and attend a wedding. It just so happened that we were in MN the same day as my church's Patriotic concert held at Bethel University campus. The Bevis' graciously allowed us to go to the 3 pm concert before we headed out for New York that same night. It was a beautiful concert and we were thrilled to get to go. Grandpa and Grandma Miller at the concert

Ministering in the Churches...

Here are some photos of children that we got to know at Heritage Baptist church in Endicott, New York.
Sarah

Christa

Here are more pictures of "Joyful Praise" singing on Mankato's channel 12 TV program "I Believe in Miracles". I can't post more than 5 pictures under one heading at a time or I would have put these with the other TV pics.

New York City...

Yesterday we drove to Manhatten and spent most of the day seeing the sites in New York City. We didn't have time to go to the Statue of Liberty though, so Mr. Bevis dropped us off for a few minutes at a park that has a pretty good view of it. Getting to be in New York City was such an amazing experience. I have never seen so many people on one street corner, or for that matter on the sidewalk in my life! There were thousands of people, and the traffic was horrendous. Mr. Bevis drove us by Times Square, Madison Square Gardens, The Plaza Hotel, and through Central Park. We stopped at Ground Zero and got out to see the memorials. I think the best part of the day was getting to go to the top of the Empire State Building though. The view was incredible! Again we were thanking the Lord for a beautiful sunny day so we could see a long ways. The last time Christa got to go to the top two years ago, it was a little foggy and one couldn't see very far out.

At the top of the Empire State Building overlooking New York City!

Niagara Falls...

This last week we had the opportunity to go to Niagara Falls and spend 2 wonderful hours (0n the Canadian side) seeing the glorious magnificence of God's creation. The last time I was at the falls was when I was 14, so I really enjoyed having the chance to see it again now that I am older.
The Lord was so good to give us the most time possible to see the Falls without wasting too much time standing in lines. We only had two hours to wander around and we all wanted to make the most of it. When we first got to the Falls, Christa, Charity and I decided we really wanted tickets to go down behind the Falls. The line was extremely long for the tickets, so we decided to wait and do our siteseeing from the top first. When we finally went to get the tickets to go behind the Falls, there was no line whatsoever! We walked right up and had no wait. The Lord was so good!!!

At the top of the Falls in Canada

Charity, Christa, and myself, behind Niagara Falls

In the tunnels behind the Falls

Mt. Evans & all its Glory!

On Wednesday we drove 14 miles up Mt. Evans (elevation 14,000+ Feet) to the top and climbed around the rocks and cliffs. It was a blast and the scenery so very breathtaking. We were told the temp was around 14 degrees at the top. It was chilly, but certainly did not feel that cold. When we were getting ready to leave it started snowing, which was kind of fun getting to see it snow in June!

This photo was taken at Lake Echo on the drive up to Mt. Evans. Like our polo shirts - at least people will know who we all are by our names on the shirts!










Christa "falling" off the top of Mt. Evans! (Not to worry, she was standing on a ledge...)
















Sarah and Charity standing in front of the snow drift that we took atvantage of for our snowball fight...we also "built" a snowman, hence the little balls of snow at Charity's feet - giggle.













A fabulous view from the top!

One last weekend at home...

Last weekend,(June 3rd), Joyful Praise sang at my church, Emmaus Baptist. The whole group stayed at my home for the weekend. We had Friday off so we were able to go home a day early and spend extra quality time with the family and baby Anders. I had a wonderful 2 1/2 days with my precious family before I head out for seven more weeks of tour.

Baby Anders 2nd visit to see Great-Grandma Pfleider!

Amy drove down to Lakeville to pick me and the other four girls up. On the way home we stopped and had a visit with grandma. The quartet sang a few songs for grandma and the other residents while we were visiting. It was a blessing to see grandma one last time before I leave for the summer. She really loved holding Anders!!!

At home with my favorite younger sisters...

Really love you girls!!!

Mary & Christa having fun in the kitchen...

Charity & I after arriving home from Elise's wedding on Saturday.

The singing group (minus Christa) on the bridge outside of church.

On Tour in Colorado!!!

This last week our group "Joyful Praise" has been singing at a conference in Golden, CO. During the afternoons the Bevis' took us sightseeing to several different sites.The pictures following show some of the neat places that we got to see:


Air Force Academy Chapel

Front of the Protestant Chapel

We got an amazing hour long tour of the whole inside of the Protestant chapel. The tour also included seeing the Catholic and Jewish chapels located on other floors. One of the cool places that the tour guide let us go up and see was up into the organ loft to get a closer look at the 4,000 + pipes that it has (The organ loft is normally off-limits to visitors, but the tour guide made an exception for us after he found out we were a singing group on summer tour and the fact that Holly took organ lessons last semester. :-)

Birds-eye view from the organ loft of the Protestant Chapel

Focus on the Family

Here we are outside of Focus on the Family's Headquarters. We were able to get a tour of the facility, and check out "Whit's End" (which is every child's dream playland).

Joyful Praise News This is in Mankato, Mn. We sang on Pastor
Michael's TV program "I Believe in Miracles"
on channel 12.






Here is a picture of the entire "Joyful Praise" group at a church in southern WI. From left to right it is me, pianist Holly Moline, Charity Schofield, Mrs. Bevis, Mr. Bevis, Sarah Fish, and Christa Schofield.
In the last week and a half we been singing in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri. We will be at my church on June 4 and then leave for Denver, Colorado on Monday the 5th. We have already had the opportunity to be in some really neat churches with some precious people. I am looking forward to the rest of tour.