I have another post coming in a couple days that I want to share about Memorial Day, but I thought I’d better share what’s been going on here over the past week or so.
We ran our second Italian Missions’ Sunday and some specific prayer requests were answered. Right in the middle of the lunch, my good ole’ friend Dr. Mark Lehman from Taiwan comes walking in to surprise me. I haven’t seen this guy in 5 years and he just shows up in Northeast Italy with his buddy Tim. I guess they were hungry or something. 
It was fabulous to spend time with Mark again. Wow, word spreads fast and far when we offer lasagna from scratch.
The kids are just getting over 6, 8, 9 days of chicken pocks. We have sequestered them. They have imprisoned us (Sandy). I’m going to kill those chickens.
Computer crashed twice. Bad memory. Must be getting old.
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Back on February 19th, I posted a few paragraphs entitled “Young Worshippers with Killer Hands.” Click on this link if you’d like to read the story.
So, my wife and I wrote down this specific prayer request into our discipleship journals. We could sense the Kingdom importance in the request and knew that time and money were both on someone else’s side.
The next day, my good buddy and almost blood-brother Brad Strable dropped an investment into our family’s worship. I said, “Wow, this is really happening.” Then in March, we had saved a couple hundred dollars for the project. In April, my Aunt & Uncle, Ron & Marge Carlson, wanted to “help our family with a project specifically for us.” Fully generous & always surprising, the Carlsons moved us closer to the mark. We knew right away what to place that seed toward — because we had already been praying about it.
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I do have some famous uncles. One of them just got famous-er. My uncle, Peter Krause, recently received the “America’s Teacher of the Year - 2005″ award from the PGA Tour. As a result, he is now featured in the May 2006 issue of Golf Digest from pages 217-227 giving lessons for breaking 100, 90, 80, & 70.
The picture that was taken here for Golf Digest was done with Peter standing on a 16 foot ladder to get up to that clock. You can also see the ring on his left hand that he won as Teacher of the Year.
We’re thrilled for Peter as his career has unfolded on the national scene.
Official word is that Peter wants me to remain in Europe until he retires. It’s part of a PGA policy — no blood relatives can be hacks and residing near or around you within the 48 contintental states. Not to mention how I could wilt a flowering career with my skills.
He couldn’t have won the award without me. For this, I’m honored.
After laboring these many years in Italy, we were able to reach a milestone today (I began writing this on April 9th, 2006). Some might say “milestone” and others might say “starting line” depending on your point of view.
For the first time, we were able to host our full Italian Missions Sunday. It was beautiful. We held it with our folks, in our own place, in Italian, & permeated with Italian culture. It has taken us a number of years to arrive at this point and it was a real highlight of the year for us thus far.
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