The 3 days at the OM warehouse were great! Heather sorted
books – 1,000’s of books!
– and Roger did a lot of outside maintenance. It was wonderful to pray with the missionaries and over the books – that God will use all for His Glory. The book sales on board ship Logos Hope raise 1/3 of the ship’s operating costs. And, of course, offer great joy to all who buy them – most countries still treasure paper books!
– and Roger did a lot of outside maintenance. It was wonderful to pray with the missionaries and over the books – that God will use all for His Glory. The book sales on board ship Logos Hope raise 1/3 of the ship’s operating costs. And, of course, offer great joy to all who buy them – most countries still treasure paper books!
From there it was off to son Josh’s house. We were glad that
we were welcomed! Scarlett, 6, has become much more “tamed”, and we enjoyed her
company. She seems exceptionally bright and still likes to cuddle. Also likes
to play games, which I had brought along. Kindergarten grades her daily with a
4 color system, and she understands ODD – something she doesn’t want to be
labeled with. I’m so glad to be able to teach her that saying “yes, ma’am” and
“ok, mom” and then acting on it will keep that label far from her. She is still
in Sunday School with her grandma that lives next door. She’s very good at
coloring and takes pride in doing it right and well. I’ll be glad to hang her
pictures on my fridge! Friday night she spent with us in the R.V.
Saturday was Brandi’s 35th birthday (Scarlett’s mom). We celebrated at the Golden Corral after watching Scarlett play her second t-ball game.
(Photo-bombed by a finger!)
We left on Sunday after church and lunch. Along the highway are beautiful fields of flowers in full bloom – yellow/orange; purple; red; and mixed. The weather and highways have been great – if only the wind would cease!
Mid-NC we stopped at a rest area – the nicest one I think
I’ve ever seen. There was a small waterfall, lots of trees and a red rose
garden. The caretaker said we could spend the night, so we did!
We arrived at the 80th Child Evangelism Fellowship
International Conference near Asheville, NC., Monday afternoon. There are currently over 100 countries represented with over 1500 attending.
What a surprise to meet so many with whom we have contact or mutual friends –
the most “miraculous” being the lady, Lulu, from Myanmar who is friends with a
German Bible School grad who went there ~40 years ago to reach an unreached
tribe – the Chins. (Here’s the whole story: Helga graduated and felt called to
go to Burma, as it was then called. Burma was a closed country, but she got in
because she enrolled in the University to learn the Chin language! There was a
young man from that tribe also studying there. She led him to Christ, and they
were married. That gave her the ticket to stay in the country. Together they
translated the Scriptures. Lula’s aunt works with Helga!) I also met a lady
from Senegal who is friends with friends of ours. A couple we sat beside from
Nigeria knew a friend of ours; the lady in the row ahead of us heard us talking
and turned around to tell us that she knew my aunt Linda, who worked in Nigeria
for 45 years! Linda worked in an orphanage when she first went to Nigeria. The
mother of the lady sitting next to us grew up in that orphanage. Besides that,
Bob Parschauer, a missionary/friend from Germany who sings in a traveling
evangelistic quartet, is here! The missionary world is small.
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