Dave & Sunny Barnum

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Blessings,
Dave & Sunny

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Greetings from Dave & Sunny,

Sunny and I have been enjoying this year as a new family of three. Our daughter Kayla is growing quickly and is now five and a half months old. Sunny spends most of her time keeping Kayla happy and healthy. I am still currently employed at a credit and banking company as an IT engineer. The most exciting news for us is that we were recently accepted as members of Wycliffe USA Bible Translators. I will be joining the full time staff as a Network Administrator at Wycliffe’s headquarters in Orlando Florida.
For God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 (NLT)
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You just did something that around 350 million people cannot do. You read God’s Word in the language you’ve most likely spoken from infancy — the language you understand best and that touches your heart (Chinese included for our Chinese speaking friends ). My goal will be to use my talents/gifts/skills with computers and passion to see more people know Jesus to help Wycliffe in their goal of translating the bible into every last unreached language on earth. Wycliffe’s goal is a big one! Our vision is to see translation work started in every last language by the year 2025. There are more than 2000 languages representing 350 million people that desperately need a bible that speaks to their heart. Wycliffe is employing many creative strategies to try to reach this goal. As a network administrator I will be helping Wycliffe use technology to achieve this goal. My primary role will be to manage their network and computer infrastructure at the headquarters location. I will also have a role in helping translators with using technology to do their work more efficiently and helping the organization store, manage, and spread this translation data.

Please pray for us as we embark on this journey as a family. Right now we’ve just finished 6 weeks of online training and will be headed to Orlando for more on-site training with Wycliffe from 4/9/10-4/23/10. We are praying that God will arrange the support we need to start this work by sometime next year. Please pray for us as we travel down to Florida tomorrow.

Love,
Dave, Sunny, & Kayla Barnum

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I’m excited to announce the first public showing of my photographic work. The gallery features myself and 4 other photographers from the Asian community. It is held in the downstairs room of the ‘Asian Grocery’ at 11 Marchwood Road, Exton, PA. The gallery will be open on Saturdays starting March 13th. More details to come!

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Oh Blog..

I’m sorry.  It’s been a while.  A lot has happened since last we spoke.  Most important; we had a baby!  Her name is Kayla and she’s a wonderful girl.  She’s growing fast (too fast.)  She doesn’t even fit into her 6 month clothes any more and she’s not even 2 months yet.  We’re glad she’s so healthy.  She’ll be tall like her daddy!  Without further introduction.. Here is a video of our new addition..

Kayla Smiling & Talking Without Words from Dave Barnum on Vimeo.

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I was able to do a photo shoot the other day for a friend of the family who is a child model. Our friend needed some portraits of him so we did a small shoot. I’ve posted some of the highlights on Flickr.

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Had a blast at Danielle and Jessica’s Rock Star Party this weekend.  Here’s a video clip we made.

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For those of you who don’t know yet Sunny and I are expecting a baby!  While we had planned to have a baby, this one came a little earlier than we planned   Although Sunny is going through a long list of emotions, we are happy and have enjoyed going through the process and learning as we go.

We are still moving forward with our plans to join Wycliffe in the near future.  Please pray for us to be able to get through the application process.

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We went to our friends’ party today.  It was titled ‘ArtLoveFantastic.’  It was an artistic party designed to bring people together through creativity and art.  It was a lot of fun.  Create because you were created, as we say.

Click here for pictures.

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Sunny and I enjoyed a night out at a very nice restaurant on Sunday.  We were blessed by our church to be able to afford going to the restaurant.  The food was VERY tasty.  I tried Fois Gras for the first time.  My brother-in-law makes it sound like it’s to die for.. And it is very very good.  It’s basically fattend duck liver.  But, frankly, i liked the lobster dish better!  I think I liked all of Sunny’s choises better than my own.  Here are some pictures.  Some of them were a little dark and had to be fixed but the pictures were taken in candle light so they came out really well

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