news update...

Olivia left me... ok us, and she was scheduled to go, but she did spend three months with us... so we were a little attached to her!  I have added her blog on my list to the right.

Rose... a friend from Whiteville is moving to Uganda for a year!!  So excited for her... I added her blog on my list as well. 

We received a care package!  From our first team... do you remember me telling you about that group of guys?  Well they sent us a package with muffin mixes, a drill!!, a digital photo frame!! w/ a 16GB card!!, and a bunch of other things... can you say Christmas??  They also sent a devotional book with their picture taped to the inside covers!  Great idea!  We love it - Thank you FAC!!!

Other's blogs

So I opened my blog this morning... not so much to write on it, sorry.  But to look at the blogs that I follow (see list on the right, scroll down a bit).  I found that everybody, or almost everybody - but I'm not mentioning any names... Jeanne, has updated their blog!
I am very proud of all of them... but I am especially proud of Alace because she has started writing again, and she is a fabulous writer!  I keep encouraging her to write a book... I'm waiting.  Anyway, on her blog she writes about dancing, but she didn't include any pictures - what was she thinking??!!!  So I decided to post a picture of her (on the right) dancing with the birthday girl - Hannah!  You can thank me later Alace!!

Relationships

Have I mentioned that one of the big things here is relationships?

With Christ – challenging people to grow in their understanding, knowledge, and relationship with Him.

With the people in the house – learning to live with people in community.

With the Gabonese – to develop relationships with people from a different culture.

Well let me just tell you that you can only lead a horse to water – encourage him to drink, tell him how healthy it is, have him read a book on water, etc… but that does not mean that he will drink!

So when we have people that “drink” in the relationships here it is neat to sit back and watch.

This past weekend we had two new interns come in.

Hannah and I were quietly working upstairs when we hear this commotion in the yard last night. I sneak out onto the terrace to spy on them and I found Cirque de Soleil performing in our yard. I don’t know if they were doing trust exercises or what, but they seemed to be having fun!

And then the other night we had Hannah’s third and last birthday party for this year. It was with our ministry partners… I should have known it was going to get wild when Joseph came early and left a case of CDs and a good size amplifier! The fun really started when Mama Jeanine pulled out church flags and everyone stuck them to their head!! Congo line anyone? Is it really a Congo line – as in the country next to us?