Just got in from Dallas today. Got home with barely time to take a quick breath and change clothes before church.

Dallas has to have the most confusing streets, roads, and interstates I have ever seen. I made it, but it took a while to get it figured out. I rarely have trouble being able to “feel” which way is north, but I get turned around all the time in Dallas. Maybe the illegal aliens do, too. That’s it, they’re not trying to sneak in, they are just confused about which way they are headed. They are trying to go south to go home, but inadvertantly come north to our home. Yeah, that’s the ticket…

I was there to do some a media escort for Barbara Cameron. We’re promoting her book, and we had a few media appearances and bookstore visits. You may not recognize Barbara’s name immediately, but you are likely familiar with two of her kids, Kirk and Candace Cameron of Growing Pains and Full House, respectively. Kirk also starred in the Left Behind movies and now works full time on his ministry with Ray Comfort, The Way of the Master. Kirk married Chelsea Noble, who played his girlfriend at the end of Growing Pains, and they have six kids! Candace married Val Bure, the NHL hockey player, and they have 3(?) kids. She is a stay-at-home-mom, though she does do some speaking where she can share her faith. Kirk and Candace flew in to do one of the media appearances with their mom, and they all did a great job. You can catch them on Life Today with James and Betty Robison, Thursday, February 1, 2007, on the Discovery Channel.

Barbara’s book, A Full House of Growing Pains, is the very well-told story of her raising “good kids” in the culture of Hollywood (Kirk and Candace have two other sisters). Although she was raising kids with moral instruction and values, it was not a Christian home. Because of that there were many struggles. Eventually, Kirk–an admitted atheist or agnostic–came to Christ. As he shared Ray Comfort’s message, “Hell’s Best Kept Secret,” changes began to occur. Candace accepted Christ. Barbara renewed her relationship with God. Barbar’s husband, a long-time non-believer, has now also accepted Christ and was baptized by Kirk a couple months back. God carried the family through the rough patches, and now He is working through the platform He gave Kirk and Candace when they were younger.

I have escorted Barbara a few times now, and she is a thrill to work with. Kirk and Candace are great, also. They are the most down-to-earth folks, and there’s not a bit of Hollywood pretension in the bunch. It is a pleasure to be working with them.

It’s a little dark, but here’s a picture of us from the green room at Life Today: