MCC//medical update//baby Luke

These last few months have been a whirlwind of excitement! We are now in our 3rd month of the Marysville Community church plant. It has been such a blessing to meet new families, spend more time reaching our community, and planning for the future of Mcc! We have already made so many new friends and seen so many new faces step up in to leadership roles. We are currently meeting at a local middle school here in Marysville and it is quite a task to get it "church" ready each week. Our team members begin setup around 6am each sunday and stay as long as it takes after service to get everything or away again. It is a very busy, but very rewarding season of ministry. We look forward to and pray to see God working each and every week!
As most of you already know, our family suffered a great loss last october. We lost a baby at around 13 weeks pregnant. We lost our little love to a very rare chromosome disorder. I wont go in to a ton of detail but the disorder left me with a few medical issues to tend to. After roughy 8 months of blood tests and doctors visits, i was given the "all clear" from the doctors. We were so thankful for the outpouring of love, support, and meals from family, church family, and friends. A few months after the all clear, we found out we were pregnant again and the blood testing resumed. I am SO thankful to report that baby Luke is as healthy as can be. We are currently 25 weeks in to the pregnancy and can not wait to meet our little nugget, Luke Everette Taylor! Clark is so excited to be a big brother!
Speaking of Clark.. he is in to all kinds of shenanigans! He brings us so much joy and we just love watching him daily learn new things. He is currently obsessed with ALL things basketball. When i say obsessed, i mean OBSESSED yall! He looks for basketball goals everywhere we go, takes a basketball with him in the car, and loves to go to Dick's sports! He is all boy! Santa may be mounting a goal on his wall for Christmas this year... don't tell him ;)
December is already filling up over here with the holidays, birthdays, travel, and other fun traditions! Ill be back in January with more from the Taylor clan!

Hope in Heartache

Chris and I are so thankful for God's grace and our church family being the hands and feet in a recent tragedy. Back in September, Chris and I found out we were pregnant with baby #2. We were overjoyed, and a little surprised, at the news! Clark was going to be the BEST big brother. We celebrated with family and friends as we anxiously awaited the first ultrasound. That day finally came and we were going to see our precious one for the first time! A day that began with so much joy, ended with so much pain. The doctor could not find a heartbeat and sent us for a formal ultrasound at another clinic close by. After a full day of doctors, unknowns, and SO many questions, we were given the news. Baby #2 had already gone home to be with his or her maker. In the passing days and weeks our home was filled with tears. Our tears and the tears of those who cried and walked this road with us. I am writing our story not so you can feel sorry for us, but so you can have hope. You see, even though there is sorrow and an abundance of tears, we have hope. We have hope because our Lord has already overcome death. We have hope in his promise of eternity where there is no more suffering, no more pain, and no more death. We have hope to one day meet our precious baby. For now it rests in the comforting arms of King Jesus and we have comfort in knowing we rest in those same arms. We debated making this news public or not. After much consideration, we have decided to tell you our story. Once again, not so you can feel sorrow for us, but so we can reach out and be the hands and feet as so many have been for us. The loss of a child, born or unborn, is a heartache I never expected to suffer. It has been the most challenging circumstance the Lord has sent our way. We hope and pray he will use our loss to encourage others through us personally or even simply through these words. Our sweet baby was due in May and we know difficult days are still yet to come but we want to thank each of you that has prayed, cried, and walked this road with us so compassionately.