On May 5th 2001, God brought together 1 Canadian and 1 Aussie and had them embark on a life of serving Him full-time in Missions.
Bill is originally from Calgary, Canada and moved to Townsville, Australia in 1998 to do his Discipleship Training School with Reef to Outback.
Tamara grew up in Adelaide and after working as a Nurse for several years, completed her Discipleship Training school in Townsville, Australia in 1999.
Caleb Thomas arrived on October 1st 2002. He is our beautiful spirited, energetic, sports loving, little red haired guy.
Jessica Lee arrived on April 12th 2006. She blesses us daily with her infectious joy, cheeky grin, continuous chatter and little red haired curls.
I’m sitting here with the sun shining through the window, the kids are in bed and I know it’s not going to get dark for a while yet. This summer in Canada thing sure gets some getting used to with the sun not setting until well past 10pm. Definitely not complaining though! Block out blinds….a great invention! If only I could bank up these sunny hours to use on a gloomy winter day here.
September marked back to school time for Caleb and Jessica. Caleb, who turned 9 on Saturday, started in grade 4 and Jessica has started in kindergarten. Both of the children were very excited to be back at school with their friends after the two-month summer break.
Elijah is an absolute joy to have in the family. He is smiling, babbling away and lately has learned to stick out his tongue at his siblings and mum and dad. A few weeks ago he started to Read the rest of this entry »
We are very proud to announce the arrival of Elijah Bruce Hutchison.
After about 44-hours of Tamara being in pre-labour with irregular contractions, and four hours of second stage labour, Elijah was born on April 29 at 12:27 am. He weighed 8.76 pounds and was 52cm long. We left the hospital in the midst of snow flurries and Mum and Elijah were safe at home resting about 4-hours after he was born. Read the rest of this entry »