Arkansas Family Expecting 16th Child
Fri Jun 17, 2005 (AP)

TONTITOWN, Ark. - Arkansas' best-known big family will be getting bigger in the fall. Michelle Duggar and her husband, former state Rep. Jim Bob Duggar, say they're expecting their 16th child.

Michelle Duggar was honored in April 2004 with the state's Young Mother award. At the time, she was pregnant with young Duggar No. 15, a boy named Jackson born May 23, 2004.

The next child, a girl, is expected in October.

"We love children," Jim Bob Duggar says. "We consider each one a blessing from the Lord and we would both love to have some more."

Michelle adds, "They're a gift."

Baby girl Duggar will join her family in a new, 7,000-square-foot house that the Duggars have been building for the last two years. When it's complete, the home will have a commercial kitchen, 10 bathrooms, master and guest bedrooms, a laundry room with four washers and eight dryers, and two dormitory-style bedrooms "” one for the boys and one for the girls.

The Duggars say No. 16 might not be their last.

[Edited on 10-14-2005 by Contra_Mundum]

__________________
Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"On land, at sea, at home, abroad, / I smoke my pipe and worship God." -- J.S. Bach

__________________
Matthew Morales
Santa Rosa, CA
Redeemer Presbyterian Church
"Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth" John 17:17 (ESV)

"Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for his grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face"
-William Cowper

That is cool!

__________________
Traci
Lynnwood OPC
Psalm 52:8-9
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

Big deal. We have a family in Stornoway, Lewis, Scotland, in the Free Presbyterian CHurch with 21. No kidding.

Jerrold

__________________
Pastor Jerrold H. Lewis. (Dipl. IT; Assc. A; B.Th; M.Th Candidate, PRTS)
Lacombe Free Reformed Church
"A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper."

JOHN FLAVEL

My Blog - Click HERE
Our Church site - Click HERE

She's a better woman than I am, Gunga Din!

__________________
The man who is disposed to think of his sin as a great calamity, rather than as a heinous crime, is not likely either to reverence God or to respect His law. - John Kennedy, 1873
Meg
Blog
Member, Intown Presbyterian Church,PCA, Portland, OR

Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements

Children truly are a blessing.

__________________
Jeff Bartel
Mechanical Engineer
Member - Trinity Reformed Church - RPCNA

"To believe in the power of man in the work of regeneration is the great heresy of Rome, and from that error has come the ruin of the Church. Conversion proceeds from the grace of God alone, and the system which ascribes it partly to man and partly to God is worse than Pelagianism" (The Reformation in England (London, 1962), Vol. 1, p. 98)

Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?

If they raising their children up in the Lord, it is a blessing to behold.

I have a friend with six kids and they are a blessing to be around, while another family of 13 I kniow, forget it!

This is the coolest thing. God is so good.

__________________

R. Martin Snyder
1689erPuritanCovenanter MSN Blog
Harmony Baptist Church (Member)PuritanCovenanter's MySpace Page
"Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation."William Symington

That is wonderful!!! Praise the Lord!

And here I thought the family at my church with 10 kids was pretty cool . . .

I don't mind if God gives Amy and me 13 more kids . . . as long as He gives us a 7,000 sq. ft. house too!!!


Psalm 128:
[1] Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!
[2] You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
[3] Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
[4] Lo, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

But cant he change his two first names from Jim Bob?

__________________
Nathan Olaf Brandal
First Baptist Church of Kirkland

"Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure"
GEORGE WHITEFIELD TO JOHN WESLEY

My Blog

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/12/D8D6KS7O1.html

<wow>

__________________
Rev. Bruce G. Buchanan
ChainOLakes Presbyterian Church, CentralLake, MI


When posting friends, kindly bear those words of earthly wisdom in mind:
Oh, that God the gift would give us
To see ourselves as others see us.
--Robert Burns, 1786 (modernized) ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions? --

That's a happy ending to this thread....or perhaps there will be more Duggars on the way in the near future!

Now that is a baby factory. They have outdone the Patriarchs.

Actually I am amazed by the amount of attention this couple has gotten. I know several families as big (and not all were anabaptist...one is catholic and wrote a book locally). Still it's nice to hear they were blessed again.

__________________
JC
URCNA
PA

"Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again." --Jack Kornfield

Baby girl came yesterday...


http://www.wral.com/family/5091045/detail.html

__________________
Jessica Myers
Joyful Wife to Andrew
Joyful Mother to Jackson, Katie & Sammy
Member: Presbyterian Reformed Church, Warrenton, VA
Home: Warrenton, VA

Did you tell Amy?

__________________
Rev. Daniel Kok
Pastor of Grace Reformed Church (URCNA)
Leduc, Alberta CANADA
Church Blog

"there is no creature, either in heaven or on earth, who loves us more than Jesus Christ"
Belgic Confession, Article 26

One of my bosses has 8 children so far and he is only 29.I doubt it has anything to do with praising the Lord.Hey,he is also from Arkansas.Coincidence?hmmmm.....

__________________
Joe Burgess
Grace Bible Church - http://www.gracemessenger.com/
Olive Branch,MS

"Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Saviour?" - St. Polycarp

I used to live in Arkansas. There is not much else to do there...

__________________

What would he change it to? Bubba Leroy?

Wow

__________________
Beth Montgomery
Wife to Steve,mom of Benjamin and John, Graduate Whitefield Theological Seminary



Blog: Journeying for Him

Tolle Lege, Tolle Lege!

Big families simply amaze me but this one is INCREDIBLE. I was a "lonely only" so even the thought of a couple of siblings seems nice to me, but 16 total - 2 more and they can field two complete baseball teams!

[Edited on 10-14-2005 by BrianBowman]

Country music pioneer Ernest "Pop' Stoneman and his wife had 23 children (13 of who lived to adulthood).

http://www.fmp.com/orthey/stoneman.html

__________________
Gregg M.
Truth Baptist Church
South Windsor CT.

Susannah Wesley had a lot of kids and I read that she made sure that she spent an hour each week with each of her children on their own. She prayed with them and spent time with them as individuals. That must be a great discipline to have in a big family like that. I'm not sure she might have had 17?

Readhead

__________________
C Mackenzie
Kingsview Church
APC
Scotland