Full of Surprises!

On the 23rd of this month we had a surprise breakfast at the café for Dayle’s 40th birthday. I decorated with white balloons instead of black because I wanted to symbolically represent life instead of death. This "over-the hill" business is a lie- Moses didn’t even begin his ministry until he was about 80! Abraham was 100 and Sarah was about 90 when they had Isaac, right? Also this holiday season our Pastor’s family had a surprise- their daughter Amber flew here from the states without telling her parents. Someone else we know also had a surprise visit from her sister a few days ago. On Christmas morning Dayle and I were surprised by the 3 alarms that our kids set in our room- all of which went off at 6AM.! They were up and ready to open presents. One of the cool things about kids is that they help us adults to see things from a fresh child-like perspective again. And speaking of kids and surprises, on Christmas night my twin brother Matt told me that he’s now a dad too! What kinds of surprises are in store for 2009? Whatever they are, they’ll obviously be what we least expect. But it keeps life interesting, doesn’t it? And even if some of the surprises are bad, we’ll be surprised by the comfort of God’s presence in the middle of it all, and someday we’ll be surprised by how God worked it for our good. So brace yourself...

I've been Busy!!!

It's been a busy few weeks! I cooked Thanksgiving for a LOT of people at the cafe, cooked Thanksgiving for our family (we like the leftovers and there isn't any with the cafe meal!), started school back up with the kids again, had a party for our lit class where we studied Pride and Prejudice, did a party for the Kid's Club at the base, made and decorated a wedding cake for a customer at the cafe, and still found time to decorate, shop, and start our Christmas baking. Whew! I feel like super mom!!!!! (not quite)

Here's some pictures of our recent happenings:

The first is the party for the Kid's Club. The second is the group of girls we had for our "Pride and Prejudice" class we did. This was the party we had. They had to dress up if they could and bring a food made from a recipe of the Regency Period in England (about 1810-1830).

And the third picture is of our kids and the neighbor kids posing in front of the gingerbread house we made. How long do you think that actually lasted? I can tell you that it was less than a week!

You Never Know

When we were still living in Minnesota I gave a guy a penny with the 10 Commandments stamped on it. It’s a little witnessing tool that I used a lot back then. I saw him later on another day and he showed me that he had made it into a necklace!

A couple of years ago I was witnessing to a Jewish guy, but he didn’t give his heart to the Lord, and I just forgot about the talk and went on with life... until I got an email from him months later telling me he wanted to know more about Christianity!

Then this week in Mexico I got into a cab and the driver remembered me from another time I had been in Mexico. He brought up the fact that I had given him a gospel tract!

You just never know what will happen when you share the gospel with people. I know a story of a man who witnessed to people for 40 years and never heard of one person getting saved through his ministry until right before he died when he heard testimony after testimony of people who he had helped to bring to Jesus. Sometimes we get to see results, but sometimes we don’t. But if we continue to share the gospel no matter what, we may be storing up a lot of surprises for ourselves in heaven!

You Are Invited To Your Own Funeral!

On Halloween we had a funeral at Higher Grounds Café in Antigua. A funeral is a service for dead people, and before we know Jesus we’re dead in our sins. Someone had donated a coffin, and we went out to the streets with invitations. At the service I preached in English and Abner, one of our other YWAM staff members, translated into Spanish. I was told afterwards that 14 people responded to the call for salvation. Halloween is all about fear. But the Bible says, "...fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matt 10:28). Was Jesus trying to scare people out of hell??? I guess, in a sense, he was. But shouldn’t we come to God out of love and not fear? Well, Proverbs 16:6 says, "...by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil." It doesn’t say they depart from evil by hearing about the love of Jesus. Fear has to come first. Proverbs 9:10 says, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom..." We have to use the Law to expose a person’s sin. When they are convinced of their sin and then fear the wrath of God, then they can truly appreciate the Savior and fall in love with Him. Love takes over from there as the person realizes that they deserved wrath but they received grace! Paul was able to stand on Mars’ hill and use an altar to an unknown God to declare the true and living God. We can do the same with things like Halloween and coffins too.

The News Girl

The other day I went to the park with some pictures of the gospel story. I sat down on a bench, and a little 7 year old girl came over selling newspapers. I showed her the pictures, and when she saw the picture of Jesus nailed to the cross she took my hand and "nailed" it up, then the other hand, and then my feet until I was nailed to her make-believe cross while sitting on my bench. A little while later I was with her and her mother and siblings, and I got to share the message with them too. The little girl was carrying the "bad news" and I was carrying the "good news". I think back to when I was her age. What if no one had been there to tell me the good news, and I had grown up without knowing about the things of God. I wouldn’t have ended up in Guatemala telling a seven-year-old girl and her family about Jesus Christ. Who would have taken my place? Maybe no one. But my mom made sure I knew about the Lord when I was young. And that seed is still bearing fruit today!

Family Happenings

We are coming up on our 3rd anniversary of moving to Antigua, Guatemala and we are amazed at what's happened in such a short time! Not only have we been busy with ministry (see the post below), but, our kids have grown up a lot! They've been busy with all that we do here as well. Here's some highlights!

Alicia

Alicia is now 14 and is really getting involved in what we are doing here in Guatemala. She helps teach a Sunday School class at our church on Sundays, she's working with groups of kids at our Kids Club on Saturday mornings, and she's going to be helping out a team from Minnesota with translation and children's ministry in November (without us, I might add!). She's doing so well at Spanish and is really studying hard so she can translate effectively while she's with the team next month.

Bailey

Bailey is now 12 and very busy with her horseback riding, her school work, and helping out in the ministry. She has a job working at the stables where she rides to earn lessons. Here's some pictures of her!

Christopher

Christopher is now 10 and also busy with school, friends, and ministry help. He helps out in his Sunday School class when they need someone to translate at times, and he also helps us with Kids Club.

Update of Happenings!!!

New Stuff!!!!

Well, it's been super busy!! Not a surprise, but, a little overwhelming! We've been trying to get all our ducks in a row for our big outreaches planned for the last 2 weekends of this month. It's going to be good, but, it will be super busy. Pray for us as we get it all together.

Evangelism Seminar

Our first big event is the bi-lingual evangelism seminar that Mark will be running on October 25th. We will be holding it at the YWAM cafe here in Antigua for pastors, missionaries, Guatemalans, gringos, and anyone who wants to learn how to be effective in sharing their faith with others. It will be a good training. They will walk away with resources, encouragement, and, hopefully, a fire to share God with the lost. We still have a lot of things to prepare: handouts, teachings, translation of the materials, gift bags, food, and still some advertising. Right now we have about 18 people pre-registered, we are thankful!

Please pray for us as we finish up the details and pray for Mark and his translators, Abner and Alejandra, as they teach for that day.

You are invited to your own funeral!

October 31st is the Day of the Dead here in Guatemala. It is celebrated by going to the cemetary and decorating the graves of family members with flowers, food, music, and flying kites supposedly to "capture" the spirits of your ancestors. We will be doing an outreach that night in Antigua where we are inviting people to come to a funeral for themselves.

It will begin with a parade of a coffin from Central Park through the streets to the cafe. Once in the cafe there will be a presentation of the gospel about how we need to be dead to sin in order to be alive in Christ. We are praying that this will be a tremendous outreach into the lives of the Guatemalans who at this time of the year are already thinking about eternity, death, and what that all means for them.

Please pray that we can pull it all together and that the Holy Spirit draws people to Him. We need wisdom on how to approach this and how to make it happen. Mark will be preaching that night, so please pray for an annointing on him while he does so.

New Family Member

I mentioned earlier how we will be getting a new puppy for Bailey from a friend who has to move back to the US. Well, we got her on Wednesday and here's a picutre! Her name is Lola. She is one year old and very sweet. She is just the right kind of puppy for Bailey because she loves to be cuddled, held, and babied! We already love her!

What else has been happening?

We had a movie night at the base recently and showed the movie "The Cross and the Switchblade" in Spanish (El Cruz y el Punal). There was about 100 people that showed up and enjoyed the movie, popcorn, and juice. Many responded to the altar call afterward! Here are some pictures of that event!

Celebrate Recovery

On Thursday the 25th I spoke at our church’s "Celebrate Recovery" program for people battling addictions. I basically shared the gospel and gave an invitaion to receive Christ who has the power to free us.

A man can, for example, try to conquer his own addiction to alcohol (and maybe with some success), but without Christ he’ll just go to hell as a "recovering alcoholic". There may be many recovering alcoholics in hell who have asked Jesus to be their "higher power" to help them get over their alcohoilism. But they never trusted Him as their Lord to deal with the bigger problem called "sin".

The meeting went great and at least one of the men indicated their desire to give their life to Jesus. I told the group that even as Christians we struggle with sin, but the difference is that with Jesus we have the power of the Holy Spirit, and without Him we only have our own willpower. Praise God that he doesn’t leave us to ourselves when we come to Him. He comes to take over and change us from the inside out.

--Mark

Kid's Club Start Up!!!!

It's so exciting! We started Kid's Club up again this past Saturday morning. We will be meeting at least 3 Saturdays a month until the Christmas holidays and restart again in November. We had about 65 kids! It was great. We showed the Veggie Tales movie of Gideon in Spanish. We were able to do a coloring page and then we fed them ham and cheese sandwiches and orange juice with straws (you'll have to watch the movie to understand why the straws!). Next week we will start our series on the Fruits of the Spirit. Please pray that God will bless these times and that the children will start to see their worth in Jesus. They really are so poor and it's hard for some of them. We feed them because it's so important for them to have a healthy meal.

Here's some pictures!

What do the kids do?

What do they do? Well, pretty much what they did in America only not as easily!


We homeschool. They get up by 7 am, do chores, and then start school by 8:30. We do school all morning and eat lunch together at about noon or so (depending on our morning!). Sometimes in the afternoon we have some school work to finish. We also will go to Higher Grounds, our YWAM cafe in Antigua, to do some work or just hang out with people, or, on Wednesdays, we have classes at our house for other missionary kids who are homeschooled. Mark teaches the boys a Bible class and I am teaching a literature class on Pride and Prejudice.


Alicia babysits a lot! She loves that because she's earning her own money. She also will be starting back to Spanish school 4 hours a week soon. She finished 2 years of high school Spanish in one year last year. She translates for people and teaches a Sunday School class in our church on Sundays for girls ages 6-12. She teaches in English and Spanish. She will be doing a missions trip coming up in November with a group from MN where she will translate for them and help head up their children's ministry in a village about 3 hours from our house.







Bailey rides horses! That's what she does. She loves it!!!! We have been blessed with a supporter who has paid for her lessons once a week for about 2 years now. Her instructor came to us and asked if she could come a second day a week to learn dressage and more jumping. She offered Bailey a job at the stables one hour a week to groom horses and clean tack in exchange for one more hour of lessons. Bailey was so excited! Not only can she ride more, but, she's earning it herself. She loves that. She jumps these horses over really incredible jumps. She's learning show jumping and will be starting competitions soon here in Guatemala and eventually in other Central American countries.







Christopher is a typical boy. He's probably the best of all of us at Spanish and uses it all the time. He loves to help out with his class in church and also will translate for the teacher for the boys who don't understand Spanish or if the teacher is English, for those who don't undertand English. He likes to help us out at Kid's Club and at home. He has a lot of friends here, which is nothing new since he's so social!







That's about it, except the sleepovers, parties, summer camp, play dates, school field trips, etc. So, it's really not much different as life in the US!

What is it like in Guatemala?

If you’ve never been to Guatemala it may be difficult to imagine life in this place called the "Land of Eternal Spring". You may have a picture in your mind painted by the Survivor TV show or by a nightly news story. But there is a lot about Guatemala that you may not know. You can go to the capital (about an hour away from us) and visit the I-max theater and then go to dinner at Chilis’ and walk around a mall that looks like something from the U.S. Or you can go to a village and see people living on dirt floors. The extremes here are more noticeable.

Here are some Guatemala statistics by someone named Sue Patterson:

Half of the Guatemalan girls have a child by the time they are 19.
97% of Guatemala's surface waters are contaminated.
57% of Guatemalans now survive on less than $2/day.
More than one child in 10 does not live to be 5 years old.
50% of Guatemalan kids attend school, and only 1% of those will go on to high school.

Here are some stats from International Justice Mission in Guatemala:

There are 22 languages spoken in Guatemala.
The UN ranked Guatemala 4th highest country in the world for income disparity.
It’s the 3rd worst in the world for child malnutrition.
.5% (thats "point 5%) of all criminal cases in Guatemala reach a verdict.
In one year 800 police officers in Guatemala were fired due to corruption.

Yes, there is a lot of need in Guatemala, but there are a lot of good things too. The people are friendly and very open to the gospel. The scenery is amazing, and the fresh fruits and vegetables are wonderful! We’re blessed to live in Antigua, a small town packed with about 70 Spanish schools! If you boiled Antigua down to one square block, it would probably have a language school, a restaurant, a pharmacy, a hotel, a tienda, a coffee shop and a Catholic church.

Antigua is a beautiful city, but beauty is relative. In the states, if a wall is crumbling you fix it, but here crumbling walls look like art. When you’re walking down the cobblestone streets you may see a man urinating in public or a drunk man passed-out on the sidewalk in the middle of the day. But the tourists in this unique part of the country come to see the ruins surrounded by 3 volcanoes.

At our house, even though we live in a nice part of Guatemala, we don’t drink the tap water, and we can’t flush our toilet paper, but the weather is always like spring. Our house is simple, but beautiful and comfortable.

We’re blessed to be working here with YWAM, ministering to Guatemalans as well as tourists and students. In some ways Guatemala seems like a black hole of ministry- like the more you do, the more there is to do. But there’s a reason that God has us here for now. We’re learning so much, and we’re being stretched. Our kids are getting a cross-cultural experience that will add so much to their education and worldview. This place- the good and the bad- has changed our lives, and no matter how long we stay here or where we go from here Guatemala will always be a special part of our lives.

--Mark

New stuff Happenin'

Since there isn't going to be a DTS this fall because we didn't have enough students, we are going to be doing some new things! We're excited because a lot of these things are things we've done in the past, but, because we've been so busy with teams, students, cafe, etc., there just wasn't time.

Here's some new stuff we will be doing:

Kid's Club: We will be starting up Kid's Club again on Saturday mornings starting this Saturday. We are so excited about it because it's a great chance to build relationships with the families around the base. It's going to be a lot of work, but, we are going to be doing it as a family so it will be fun as well!

Saturday Training Seminars: Mark will be teaching an Evangelism seminar again in October. We hope to do about 4 of these seminars a year for Guatemalans and missionaries here in Guatemala. We are hoping to provide an outreach for those who want to come that evening to put into practice what they've learned.

Halloween Outreach: We will be doing a funeral! We love this outreach! We already have a coffin we can use and the staff is excited about using the opportunity to reach out to those who will be on the streets. We will do a program and have a concert. This is Day of the Dead here, so it's fitting!

Christmas Party for the families at the base: We want to do a Christmas party for those families around the base. We are hoping to provide them with gifts and have a party at the base for them to attend with food, games, and a pinata!

Team outreaches: We will also be hosting teams from all over to come and help us with construction, outreach, and ministry.

Homeschool outreach: We are having a homeschool class on Wednesday afternoons at our house for missionary kids and our kids. Mark is teaching a Bible class and I am teaching literature class for girls on Pride and Prejudice. It's an opportunity to provide a service for missionary families.

Higher Grounds: We will be starting a Friday night thing at Higher Grounds for young people to come and enjoy music, food, and fun. Mark will still be doing Soul Patrol outreach at the Parque Central, but, this is another opportunity for evangelism.

These are just a few things that will be happening here in Antigua! Sounds like we'll be busy!!!!! Please pray for us as we begin to really pour into these ministries that will be happening here.

--Dayle

You may not believe this...

We know that about 3000 people died in the September 11th terrorist attacks in the United States.

But did you know that, according to Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, there are 3,304 babies aborted every day in the United States.
http://www.mccl.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=400&srcid=183

So, on average, we have a 3000 person tragedy every day in the United States!

Also, according to National Right to Life, there have been 48,589,993 abortions in the U.S. since 1973. http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/facts/abortionstats.html

If the 3000 people who died on 9/11 were equal to 1 inch, then the number of babies who have been murdered in our country since 1973 is about 450 yards (from end zone to end zone on a football field 4 ½ times)!

I don’t want to minimize the horror of what happened on 9/11. But we also need to be honest about the fact that we’re killing our own people. Is God going to let 48 million babies be killed without bringing severe judgment? Let’ pray...

God, Bless America with a spirit of repentance.
God, Bless America with mercy for our national sins.
God, Bless America with protection from our enemies.
God, Bless America with a desire to honor You once again.

-Mark

Good Sex!

I recently had the opportunity to teach a 2-part class on sexual abstinence in 4 schools here in Guatemala. My friend Luis Castillo, who teaches regularly on morals and values in these schools translated the classes into Spanish and added some of his own teaching as well.

I began by telling the students that God invented sex. In fact, the first command that we know of to the first man and woman was to go have sex! Genesis 1:27-28 "...male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth..." But I was quick to add that sex is a gift specifically for marriage.

I talked about the emotional risks of opening that gift before marriage and the difference between love and infatuation. But, even better, we were able to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with so many students! And many of them indicated a desire to ask the Lord for a new, pure heart!

During the Q&A times that we were able to have in some of the classes the students were asked to write out anonymous questions. Some of them are listed below:

Is it good to have sex as a minor?
How can you love without God in your heart?
I’ve already had sex with my partner. Can I enter the Kingdom of God?
If we have relations several times with one person before marriage and one marries that person, is that also a sin?
Is it bad to masturbate?
Is it adultery if two people use contraceptives and have sex?
What is love?

You can tell by the questions that there is a huge need for teaching in this area! Please pray that the idea of sexual purity will be reinforced in the lives of the students we spoke to. Sex is too good to let the devil mess with it. God only creates good things, so we can give God the credit for good sex!

--Mark

How they have grown!

Look at them! They've grown so fast I can't believe it. Alicia just had her 14th birthday yesterday. Bailey has her 12th at the end of this month, and Christopher will be 11 next May. Where has the time gone?

They are doing well here. They will be busy with us helping out with Kids Club at the base coming up in September and every Saturday after. They are learning Spanish and trying really hard to get their schoolwork done early enough every day to be able to play outside.

We are so proud!

This is our dog and cat. The dog is Shadow and the cat is Mish. We will be getting another dog, a little terrier at the end of the month named Lola.

We are getting another animal because, basically, Shadow belongs to Christopher (or Mark, depending on who you're talking to) and Mish belongs to Alicia. So, as you can see, there's a child not matched with a pet. Hence, Lola will be joining our family to give Bailey a little friend!

Shadow came to us because he was being abused and we bought him from the family who was abusing him. We were going to find him a home, but, he fit so well with us, he became part of our family. Mish was given to the kids when we were in El Salvador renewing our visas. The family we stayed with loved the kids and gave them Mish when we left their home. Lola belongs to a friend who will be leaving to go to the States and needs a home for her.

Mish and Shadow have very distinct personalities. Shadow is all dog, very playful, happy, affectionate, loyal, and sweet. Mish is all cat, proud, used to his own way, cuddly when he wants to be, and, believe it or not, sweet! We don't know about Lola, but, we'll let you know as soon as we figure her out!

The Hardest Thing I've Ever Done

Have you ever done anything so difficult that while you were doing it your heart was pounding, your head was spinning, and you had to remind yourself to breathe on a regular basis? I've been there. Regularly! Leaving everything that I love--family, friends, home, familiar culture, language, church--to bring ourselves to the mission field of Guatemala has felt like that. Right now, it feels like that. Trusting God so completely that you've left yourself no other choice, feels like that sometimes.

But, God is good. He knows what we need. He knows what character He wants to build in us. He understands our hearts. He knows our innermost thoughts. He sees our fear. Nothing is new to Him. Nothing surprises Him. Never does He say, "Whoa! I didn't see that coming? How will I handle that?" Or, "Well, I've never seen this before. What do I do now?" No. He is able. He is sufficient. He is completely perfect in all His ways.

This is what I have to know. This is what I need to move from my head, where I can spout all the beautiful platitudes of Christianity with the best of them, to my heart, where the rubber meets the road so to speak. The only way this happens is through circumstances where I find myself in no other place but to trust Him. I don't have a choice. This is where I am. This is where I've been on a regular basis lately.

So, here it is. Today, I'm trusting God with my family, my life, my heart, and to provide in so many ways just like He's promised. That's how it has to be. I trust him for today, this time, this hour, this minute whatever I have to do to get to that point that I don't worry so much.

To quote Beth Moore:

God is who He says He is.
God can do what He says He can do.
I am who God says I am.
I can do all things through Christ.
God's word is alive and active in me.

Let's see how this works.

--Dayle

Where are we?

We are in Antigua just a little bit to the left and up a bit from the big star marking Guatemala City. We are about 5,000 ft. up in the mountains surrounded by beautiful mountains and hills. One of the mountains called Fuego is an active volcano that erupts regularly. We can see it clearly from our house!

Some Pictures of Mark doing Outreach

The above pictures are of street ministry in the market of Antigua and of Mark doing an evangelism teaching for a team that was here this summer.

Here we go Again!

Well, we've tried a lot of other sites for this type of thing, but, for one reason or another, they don't work for us. We are just too computer illiterate I guess! Sad, but, too true. So, since we've figured this site out without very little pain and suffering, we will be keeping this up as our official blog. Now, if I can just figure out how to change that on our homepage, we'd be good to go! Our homepage will still be Annand Adventures, this is our blog.

What's been Happening?
I'm glad you asked! We've been really busy doing a TON of stuff. Here's a short re-cap!

1. Mark has been really busy teaching abstinence using the Bible in the schools here in Antigua and one school in Guatemala City. It's been such a blessing and an open door we've been praying for for so long. It's been a great opportunity. At one point, he lost his voice and I stepped in and subbed for him. It was interesting! I'm glad he's the one doing it.

2. Higher Grounds Coffee House has been super busy! That's a blessing to our base. We've been running to keep up with it all! It's been an opportunity to minister to people who are here to study Spanish or to volunteer, or to minister here in Guatemala. It's a haven for them. A chance for them to network and find support. The services have been going really well. This past Saturday, we hosted "The Call" prayer event for America. It was a 12-hour event in which we teamed with Janet Moutray (a missionary with an emphasis on prayer) and the World Race team that is serving for a month here in Antigua. It was well attended throughout the day and well organized. We even had the live feed from Washington DC for the whole day.

3. We've had a lot of teams come through the base. Mark was busy preparing their outreach opportunities and taking them to their various activities. It's a blessing to have them come because it's such a cool thing to see how God uses them while they are here as well as helping us out at the base. They were such good teams with servant's hearts. They worked in orphanages, schools, churches, base VBS, cleaning Higher Grounds, doing street ministry, prayer ministry, Thursday night services, construction, feeding program, youth ministry, market ministry, and I'm sure other ministries I'm not remembering. Busy!!!!!!!

4. Street ministry has been going well. Mark still goes out almost every Friday night for Soul Patrol. He goes into the park and talks with people and prays with them if they would like him to. He's had some great talks and his Spanish is coming along so that now he can share the gospel in Spanish and English.

5. Mark has taken a short break from Spanish classes and will be starting up again in the Fall. He only has a couple more levels to go before he has completed the entire course at the school he's been attending. He will be starting up again, hopefully, 3 days a week.

6. The kids have been busy with school and various activities. It's been fun to see them start to fit into their different abilities and talents and start using them for God. Alicia has a gift for picking up languages and has been using it to teach a bi-lingual class for girls ages 6-12 in our church, Iglesia del Camino. She also has helped to translate for a team recently and will also be traveling in November with a team from Minnesota to translate for them and help head up their children's ministry. Bailey is doing great at the piano and horseback riding. She has been working at the stables one afternoon a week to earn another day of riding lessons. She is also doing great at playing the piano and learning so much by ear. She's reading music well, and is working toward playing for worship someday. Christopher went with us to the prayer day for America at the coffee house. After prayer, he was moved to continue praying for our country and has been asking a lot of questions about the upcoming presidential races for the purpose of prayer.

7. I've been just trying to keep it all together. It's been busy trying to keep up with it all and then also homeschooling all 3. Can you say, Challenge? But, I've been also taking time to attend a Friday morning women's Bible Study at our church with women from all different types of ministries and backgrounds. Right now we are doing the Beth Moore study "Believing God" which has been a super study and very challenging to my faith. I need this time each week, it's a chance to get to know other women and have a little adult conversation!!!!

I hope you got a little glimpse of what we've been doing the last several months. It's been busy, but, God is so good! He's faithful to provide all we need.