August

What a busy month! Lots going on!

Jessies mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and had two surgeries this month. The second surgery was successful and they found no cancer in her lymph nodes, praise God! She begins radiation and hormone therapy soon. Jessies dad is still in need of a kidney transplant, no match found as of yet. We (Mark and Jess) are getting tested next Monday to see if either of us is a match.

We put an offer on a house this month! Yay! We're praying Gods will be done, of course, and cant wait to get things moving along. Its a short sale and the owners have accepted the loan but we're waiting on hearing back from the bank still... Its a 2bed 1bath house in North Pole (only 15min from Marks work) with an unfinished full size daylight basement. If we are able to purchase it we'll turn the daylight basement into a master suite to make the house a 3bed 2bath and have instant equity! We signed up for AKSOM (Alaska School of Ministry) classes and will start next month. We're VERY excited to continue working towards getting our ministry licenses! We have all our transcripts and are looking forward to figuring out how far along in the process we are/what classes transfer etc.

Jessie has been asked to start taking more of a roll in Childrens Church, there are a lot of changes being made at our church right now, so please keep us all in your prayers. Lots of good things happening, but even good change can be hard sometimes.

Mark had his yearly review and is being promoted to "second manager", no pay raise but better hours and will officially have a "full time" status.

Caleb is loving telling stories... He's getting really good at reciting the bible stories he's learning at home and in his Sunday School classes. We love hearing him tell us the stories the way he understands them. It cracks us up!

Carson is rolling over, cooing, smiling, and even occasionally laughing! He's such a joy! We are so excited, tomorrow will be TWO WEEKS away from our final adoption court date! Praise the Lord! What an exciting journey adopting our sweet boy has been! Please continue to keep us in your prayers!

That's it for us this month! Keep checking in with us for our monthly updates!
Love the Dickinsons

We had a wonderful church friend, Sadie, take pictures for us. Here are a few I know you'll enjoy!

Our Handsome Carson Ray:)

<3

Caleb being a very cute goof ball

What a handsome boy!

...I'll be adding a few more soon!