Ben Martin - birthday on Nov. 18, 2013!

Happy Birthday Ben!

Arriving in Israel Nov. 3, 2013

Our son Benjamin James Martin ("Binyamin" - Hebrew for "son of the right hand"!) has a birthday Monday, Nov. 18, 2013.

To this day I remember the Sunday he was born in 1979. Laurie had gone into the Illinois Valley Community Hospital that Saturday night before. Ben was born around 4 am, and I was scheduled to give the church announcements the next morning at the 10 am Illinois Valley Community Church meeting. That was held at the Peru, Illinois Northview grade school on Shooting Park Road. Laurie's Mom worked there as secretary to the principal.

When I made the announcements at the meeting, I finished by saying, "Well, I have one more announcement. We now have a catcher in the family, to go along with our first born son Josh." (Baseball talk.)

So that is a bit of how it was when Ben came into the world. We named him Benjamin, as we believed the Lord had wanted. ("Son of the right hand" is the Hebrew meaning of the name, as I wrote above.)

Now using his artistic gifts, which we first noticed when he was in grade school and won ribbons for his many drawings, Ben has a company for web design and more, called Possible Web Marketing. Among their clients is our ministry. He does our main website Love For His People.

We are proud of Ben, and bless him in this coming year, with the desires the Lord has put on his heart.

Happy birthday Ben!

Love,

Dad & Mom

With our good friend, Avraham Saiden, in Jerusalem.

At the baptismal site of the Jordan River, 

near Jericho, Israel.

Ben around 9 years old.

With nephew Jensen 2011

With Mom, brother Josh, 

sisters Hannah and Christen,

nephews and niece 

Mother's Day May 2013