Thursday, May 11, 2017

Week 3 of our travels - Spring 2017



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!

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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