Monthly Archives: July 2009

We praise the Lord for giving us a wonderful Lord’s Day!  The Lord blessed us with 19 souls in attendance (5 first time visitors)!  We had services in the morning and then had a great lunch (made by Becca and Phyllis) and then played “mafia”.   We were going to play volleyball but it was rainingContinue reading “Great Sunday”

Yesterday morning my mother-in-law, Phyllis, arrived.  Praise the Lord she had no problems with her luggage or flights!  It was kind of like Christmas in July yesterday with all the goodies she had stuffed in her suitcases.   We were all very excited.  Now the girls have new toys and books, and we have new candyContinue reading “Becca’s mom arrives”

We’ve moved our kids club and youth group to the weekdays instead of having them on Saturdays.  It’s a nice change and we would love to be able to keep things this way but school vacations are only for about 3 weeks.  We let the kids and youth pick the day and time they wantedContinue reading “Club during school vacations”

This morning we had our adoption hearing.  It wasn’t quite what we expected, but everything went good.  It was a very informal meeting.  We sat and talked with the judge.  He asked us a few questions and then he dictated to his secretary a letter approving our paperwork and authorizing the adoption to move forwardContinue reading “Adoption Hearing”

Yesterday the government of Peru announced that all schools would have to be closed from the 15th-31st of July.  They are trying to prevent the spread of illness, particularly swine flu.  As you can imagine this created quite a stir at the schools since winter break wasn’t scheduled for another couple weeks.  Hopefully, this won’tContinue reading “Early school vacation”