Various September

It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve had the opportunity to update the blog. We’re still alive and well out here. Life played the hectic cards on us; a few of them in a row. Here are a few updates & snippets. I have another story coming over the next week that I look forward to sharing with you. Be watching for that.

Our daughter Jessi started walking — all over the place. Then, to really catch us off guard, she now knows how to say “no” and use it correctly. She’s such a girl.

I took a quick trip to Germany. That’s my coming story.

A man was born again in Christ in the ministry a couple of weeks ago.

Our church has entered our new worship center and done a temporary setup before renovations can begin. They should begin next month as we’re getting final details on mechanical/electrical engineering and final approvals completed.

We have a baptism at the river scheduled for this coming Sunday, the 11th of September. New life in grave memories.

Email is slow. I’m so far behind in responding because I can’t keep up with it all that I might be inadvertently offending you. So, I want to inadvertently apologize accidentally ahead of time.

August is a tough month in Europe because almost everybody, everywhere takes vacation in August. It’s tradition and tradition is so strong sings the Fiddler on the Roof.

Seven folks from our church returned this week from their duties in and around Iraq after five months. Bravi! A few others have left for the next number of months.

There was a hurricane. It made gas prices rise. Ours runs just around $6.00 per gallon and that’s for diesel. I stopped driving my ‘88 BMW altogether unless absolutely necessary. That car drinks more gas than our turbo-diesel and it costs about 40 cents more per gallon to fill it. Literally, it could cost us over $125 to fill our car. Here’s your question: Can you be thankful to the Sovereign Lord when you see $3.10 per gallon of gas? We know we would be!

Finally, I wanted to thank the folks that add little gifts to the offerings in their churches for us. We recently had a nice note from our supporting church in Singapore (Great church and wonderful friend in Pastor Christopher Chern). In the note, they indicated that “somebody” added a small gift to us to bless us. Thank you Somebody from Singapore. God bless you too — and all of you who think of us in these kind ways.