Sunday, July 13, 2008

My friend, Matthew Hoskinson

As some of you know, Matthew Hoskinson (a dear friend from college days) was recently diagnosed with cancer. It has been a blessing to read about how the Lord has been blessing, teaching and enabling him during this difficult time of his life. You can read about it to at his blog: http://debtortograce.blogspot.com.

I am sure that he would appreciate your prayers during this time.

Home Stretch

The last few weeks have been full of joy, spending time with family (yes, they are the same!) and seeing friends. We have had the opportunity to spend time with Susan's family. One of the fun things we got to do was go to the lake and spend time on jet skis, tubes and boats. The kids absolutely love that. We also spent some time with my family, ending our time together by visiting my grandma in Virginia. We praise the Lord for the family we have .

On our travels we have been to Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and now we are in Michigan. We have been spending a few days at Inter-City Baptist Church. They are one of the most active supporting churches a missionary could have. Every year since we have been in Monterrey, we have had a team from Inter-City visit us. This has allowed us to develop a special relationship with many people here. Our kids have been looking forward to seeing many of the friends (of course, they're all adults!) they have at Inter-City. We have been having some fun times!

On Wednesday, we will travel to South Bend, Indiana to be at Community Baptist. From there we will got to spend about a week with Mandy and Brent Olson, our Harvest Rally friends. The kids are looking forward to doing all kinds of fun things on the farm. From there we should be heading home (something else we are looking forward to as well).