Roy, the fine specimen

Well, being on home assignment in the states for a year isn’t all drudgery.  We have had some wonderful fun inbetween and around the work times.  One of Roy’s favorite haunts is Dairy Queen, and somehow he manages to keep …

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CEFA papers! Thanks for your prayers!!

Roy’s group of people working on the U.S. non-profit status have made great head way!  The papers Roy is holding are permission from the state of Illinois to proceed with the registration.  It now depends on a meeting of the …

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Great grandma & great granddaughter

 

Do you think they’re related???   I couldn’t find a photo with Maia with the same expression as her great grandmother Mary in this photo, but other than her rounder blue eyes, she sure didn’t fall far from the family …

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Night by Elie Wiesel

Sobering, heart breaking, reality checking, and intense book that I had a hard time putting down.  Elie shares his journey through WWII concentration camps with his father.  He makes some true and wonderfully strong statements, like “one person can make …

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That’s what families are for!

While enjoying a special one on one outing, read “date”, with Maddie, she made a sweet and interesting comment, out of the blue.

“Gramdee, that’s what families are for; taking the kids to the park!”  We had a giggly, energetic …

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He is risen! Hallelujah!

We had a packed day today!  Up at 4:30am to get Josh’s longed for Danish puff prepared before our sunrise service around a bonfire in Josh & Kimia’s backyard.  A couple of families, who have become dear friends to all …

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Christianity Rediscovered

This book by Donovan, written in the 70’s, is quite the thought provoker!  As a Catholic priest, working in East Africa, he begins his journey in this book with wondering why, after 100 years in the area, there is no …

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Tea Party, anyone?

Oh my did we have the time of our lives, with our Maddie as the center of attention for her belated birthday tea party at the American Girl Cafe in downtown Chicago!  It was a gift to have this possibility …

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Clarification

I just wanted to add a note to the item about our friends who were recently baptized and are reading the bible now; they are not among our close neighbors, they are in another country, a 2 days’ drive from …

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April prayer requests

Dear praying Friends and Family,

Yougouda, the Fulani man who was in a bad motorcycle accident, is home and is doing much better, and our colleagues there have been able to visit with him and pray for him.

Our visit

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