We had our Missions Festival at Bent Tree with the theme "Open" (open your heart, open your mind, open window to the world) was full of new ideas and old friends. Michael and Florence Kyomya with Hesed Ministries in Uganda flew in from Jinja and it was good to catch up with them as well as their daughter, Eve, and son-in-law, Clifton who also work in the ministry.
Here we are at an all-church picnic dinner and prayer time.
I also got to catch up with Tim Amstuz from World Relief Cambodia. I went to Cambodia and Thailand in 2004 with a small group and had the privilege to connect with Tim and his family as well as Joke Van Opstal and their team who do a great work with many volunteers starting at the local church level.
The week included time with Sashi and Jihtu - leaders representing our "adopted people group," the Marathas of India, Peter and our partnership of leadership training in Russia, Celestin & Bernadette Musekura with ALARM in Africa, Amazon Outreach in Brazil. Passion is contagious!
The last two weeks, Marty and I have been in Australia and New Zealand. (Those trip stories/pics will follow.) We left October 31st ... Halloween. We were sorry to miss our usual tradition of passing out candy at Brian and Julie's as they trick-or-treated together in their kid-filled, family-friendly neighborhood.
But before we left, we stopped at Abby's pre-school to see "the parade of costumes" and get our picture taken with Ariel and Monkey. (alias Abby & Grant)
Next stop ... Australia and New Zealand.
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Good blogging. I forgot that you had this going. I have now added it to a link on our blog so we can get to it easily.
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