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| Lily and granddaughter Sophia |
Work, vacation, eat; yep that just about describes our time in
the states. The following sentence
describes how Pete feels: You meet with people, family and friends and say
hello, get acquainted with them find out how their life has been over the last
year since we saw you, then say good bye… for one more year. So here is our latest report, we will try to
include as many grand-children pictures as we can, because we got to visit with
them all.
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| Grandson Robert, 5 months old |
Praise report, near the end of our furlough we were told that
the remainder of the $2900 cost for permanent residency will be covered. So this pledge to cover this is a blessing to
us and a prayer answered.
While we were in the states, we
visited several churches to attend their worship services. We were blessed by
our family at Good Shepherd who knows how to welcome their missionary families. Thanks to our Good Shepherd family and staff,
Pastor Gary and the rest you made our visit feel like home again. We had several open houses for visitors and
had a good response to those. There is
no feeling on earth that can match walking into a church where you grew up in
faith and sitting down and soaking it all in, renewing and refreshing.
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| Chana United Methodist Church |
We spoke at a Vacation Bible
School that has supported us for many years, thank you Chana United Methodist Church,
Pastor Javier, and the great servants who care enough to teach the
children. Also we were blessed to
worship one Sunday with a long-time WGO medical brigade church, Rehoboth Baptist
Church in Waynesville, NC. Thank you
Pastor Connor and the entire congregation for making us feel so welcome. During that church visit we left Nick with
friends that he had met during their brigade week in June.
Our family, compared to other missionary families that we know
is blessed to have most of our supporters in the Naperville, IL area. However, we took time this year to travel to
Suffolk and Chesapeake Virginia to visit several of our supporters and family. We went to the beach, ate seafood and played
with Sophia (pictured above with Lily) and just got to catch up with the most
recent life events. We had not seen that
son and daughter-in-law for two years.
While in Naperville we had a great house to stay in while the
owners stayed mostly in Wisconsin. As a
matter of fact most of our supporters happened to be on vacation during the
time we were visiting. Unfortunately
that is one hazard of missionary life with kids that are in school.
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| Son Steve, with grandchildren |
Our favorite food on this trip
was most anything that was BBQ’d and at one time had hooves. And then there was
sweet corn and hot dogs and gyros. Praise
to you in the states that get to eat this and thanks for the added 15
pounds.
Our visit came to an end too soon
though and before we knew it we were back on a plane. We arrived at about
9:00 PM in a city in Northern Honduras, San Pedro Sula. We saved $200 each
ticket flying into this city; a 4 hour drive to Tegucigalpa. That night we tried to start our car which
had been sitting for those five weeks and it did not start. So while at the hotel which we were going to
stay the night at we put out a plea in a private Facebook page for missionaries. At about 6:30 am something started to wake
Angie and me. Normally we should sleep
until 9ish, but something kept telling us to wake up. Sure enough Angie had the most motivation and
she got up checked the Facebook for a response and someone said that their
husband was at the hotel until 7am picking up a team and he had jumper
cables. Praise God we found him and he
jumped the car. Pete then drove it for about 30 minutes to get
the charge. We packed up ate breakfast
and then got in and it did not start. So
right there a quick prayer “please Lord this car has to start” and it did! We
then drove the 4 hours, not turning it off, to our home city and since then the
car has worked very well. We have hit
the ground running and next week will finish our summer teams.
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| Pete and Angie Norfolk VA |
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