Colorado

We drove from Casper, Wyoming Sunday to the Denver area just to hang out for a few days until the missions conference begins this weekend. We have been catching up with family here and really enjoying the cool dry air. Last evening we decided to visit a church in Longmont (about 20 miles north from here) and to introduce ourselves. We hope to get a meeting lined up there sometime in the future. We did meet a former student of Jim's from about 27 years ago when we lived in the Philadelphia area! She remembered Jim as her history teacher. Pretty amazing... and what an encouragement to see someone from many years ago.

We will try to get all of the family together this coming Saturday. Hopefully we can work around schedules.

We are doing well. Please pray for Jim. He has several speaking opportunities next week and we would like to be a blessing to the church as we share our ministry. Following the end of the missions conference in Denver we will be driving to Mio, Michigan (with just one day at home to take care of things there.) Thanks for your prayers.

Heading out west

We are planning on leaving at the end of the week to go out to Casper, Wyoming. We will present our ministry Sunday in the morning service. Following the meeting there we will drive down to Denver, Colorado for a missions conference.


Jim has several opportunities to speak during the missions conference, and he would certainly appreciate your prayers for those preaching times. Following the time in Denver we will drive back to the northern part of the lower Michigan peninsula. We have a missions conference at a church we have been in before. This church is located a short distance from the Mackinac Bridge. I am hoping to see the bridge for the first time. Yes, I know.... We have lived in Michigan for 23 years and one would think I would have seen it by now!

As always, thank you for praying for us.

Congratulations!

Dan and Sara are going to have a new baby in May! Click on their link to see the ultrasound image.

Peter and Olivia

We pray that they will "grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 2 Peter 3:18

Familiar...but definetly not the same!

Just like the traffic jam in the photo, things can be so familiar and so different. I have been looking in one of our Portuguese books and smiled coming across these words.

- A shopping is not a type of trip but it is the actual mall itself.
- Futebol is not American football but it is soccer.
- Coco is not chocolate but rather it is coconut.
- X-salada is a cheeseburger with the salad works. There is a true word for cheese, queijo, but in this case, the X is pronounced sheeze which sounds like the English word cheese. So your order becomes a Sheeze salada. Nice sense of humor!
- time is not referring to the clock but rather means team.
- Notebook (pronounced notch-book-ee) is not a bound pad of paper but rather a laptop.

We have much to learn....

Next week we will begin traveling again to Wyoming and then to Colorado. Thanks for praying.

September evening

I went out back to take a picture of the corn being harvested and saw this really pretty rose on one of my two bushes. It blooms well all summer long and into the fall. Wish you were here!

Just appreciating the quietness of this evening.

Joys in the harvest time

The air is cool. The sedum is blooming, and our neighbor has begun to harvest in the fields. This is a beautiful time of year and we are reminded of God's handiwork again. We are taking a few days to catch up on the mail, lawn work, and the opportunity to rest a bit.

Isaiah speaks of the joy of harvest relating it to the great joy experienced in the presence of Christ.

"They will be glad in Your presence as with the gladness of harvest." Isa. 9:3

Thanks for praying on our behalf.