The Christian & Raina Cepel Family
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On Wednesday, May 31st, 2000, I asked a wonderful woman, Raina J. Olsen to be my wife. She happily, accepted. We gave our lives to each other in a double-ring ceremony in Valley View Community Church at 3pm on August 20, 2000.
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God has blessed us greatly! ... Again!

At 18:45, Monday March 11th, 2002, my beautiful, wonderful, gift from God of a wife, told me that we have been given another wonderful gift from God. We are due according to an online due-date calculator sometime around November 16th. Please pray for Raina's health and the health of the baby, and for the rather large decisions that face us in the near future. Pictures will be posted when we get some.

God's blessings are sometimes difficult to understand
On Easter Eve, 2002, my lovely Raina and I went to Cox South Emergency in Springfield Missouri, where Raina bravely underwent a multitude of difficult, (and some unnecessary), tests, which confirmed our worst fears. In the afternoon on Easter, we lost our baby, which, though supposed to be seven and a half weeks old, probably only had lived until it's fifth week. We've seen a wonderful OBGYN, Dr. Michael Burks, at home in Columbia, and he assures us that Raina is healthy, and that we can try again in a short while.

We don't always understand God's reasons, but we praise him none the less. Raina and I appreciate any prayers on our behalf during this time, as well as prayers for our future. If it's God's will to allow us to do so, we hope to try to bring a little one into this world to join our family.


Mandolin Dreams - 070627
Following a week of misery from the catastrophic destruction of my beautiful and very beloved "Venice" model Lonestar mandolin (The headstock mysteriously cracked off while it was protected in a hardcase.), today has been a day of joy. Raina and I drove out to Big Muddy Mandolin, LLC (formerly Mid-Mo Mandolin) in Rocheport, Missouri and met with a great guy by the name of Mike Dulak. For a extremely kind price he sold me a prototype mandolin that caught our eye the minute we walked in the shop. She was an experiment with Cherry wood for the back and sides. She has an Englemann Spruce solid soundboard (Their tagline has been "No Frills, No Plywood"), a Mahogany head and neck, and Rosewood fretboard, bridge, and head laminate. He replaced the standard tuning machines at my request with beautiful gold and pearl Grover model GX1247 tuning machines which boast a 21:1 gear ratio for very easy and very fine tuning. It sounds absolutely beautiful and is a wonderful middle ground between the big Irish/Greek sound of my large soundbox pseudo-gourd-back style Venice, and the bluegrass style mandolins which I feel sound rather dead, but have a very bright attack with a very quick decay. I'm absolutely in heaven and don't deserve (or rate) such a fine instrument. I am blessed with a wife who loves me very much and indulges my desperate longing for music and musical instruments (and, well... musical talent... no hope there) and who felt terrible for me when the mandolin I play nearly every day died such an untimely death. Further Kudos for Mike and Big Muddy... he was kind enough to throw in a very lovely used (not so as you'd notice however) high quality gig bag gratis, so I can keep this gorgeous little gel safe, gorgeous, and with me at all times. I need to name her, but inspiration has eluded me so far. Pictures to follow soon I hope.
  1. Christian's Résumé
  2. Christian's Web Portfolio
  3. Dr. Dobson's Focus on the Family
  4. Klove: Christian Contemporary Net Radio
  5. ValleyView Community Church
  6. A map to Valley View Community Church
  7. A Map to our lovely home
  8. RainaBear's Web Home
  9. Raina's Graduation Photos
  10. Thistledowne.org
  11. Nelson Audio & Light
  12. Central Missouri Celtic Arts Association
  13. Pictures of Thistle
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