Last Stops on HMA Trail

Tomorrow we head for Colorado Springs. We'll hit the road running as we pick up a rental car and head for Lennox, SC to visit with the church there over the weekend. Then Monday, the 15th, we take a few days to travel to Montrose, CO and the church there. The trip should be beautiful as we cross over the Rockies to the Western part of the State. Then on the 18th we cross back over part of the Rockies to Colorado Springs and two churches there. We are looking forward to seeing several of our supporters along the way that we haven't spent time with in a while. Should be a great way to end this six month long Home Ministry Assignment.

A few sad things happened today. We said good-bye to our 1993 Honda that we have had for over seven years. We bought it in 2002 to have for our son's wedding. Since then our son and wife used it on their honeymoon, we've used it while in the US, several of our daughters have used it while at Covenant College, Meg used it while on HMA last year, and our oldest daughter used it before their move to Kenya last year. It has really served us well and has a ton of memories tied to it but it was time to pass it on to another MTW family whose son is heading off to college.

We also got word today that our five fish we've had for five years disappeared out of the little pond in our back garden. When we bought the fish they were about an inch long and they grew to be around eight inches. We are guessing a a herron may have discovered them and are hoping their demise was as painless as possible, considering... Our granddaughter, Joanna, will be especially sad next time she comes to visit since she has said that feeding the fish is her favorite part of the day.

Since we last posted something, Paul has travel to Tanzania to visit Meg, I've been to Spain for a Europe women's retreat, Paul's been to New Mexico to see his Mom and I've been to Pennsylvania to see mine. We are now in Atlanta and have had good times with both my sisters here as well as nephew and family and my niece. We've had good meetings with the Spiritual Life Department at MTW (which includes another nephew) as well as a celebration dinner welcoming three new members onto a part of our team. Mmmmm, busy times!

We hear the shower in our flat in London isn't working and in fact the whole bathroom needs to be retiled. Please, please, please be done before we arrive on the 27th!!!!! Although that puts a bit of a worry into our arrival, we are so looking forward to getting back on March 27th.