Holiday Week

Hope your Holiday week was wonderful.  Ours was.

We had our niece Rachel stay with us for awhile.  She is going to school in Madison.  We also had Cale’s 6^th birthday party, Thanksgiving at our house, ringing the Salvation Army bell, chopping down our Christmas tree, and celebrating Garth’s birthday.  (I won’t tell you how old he is.)

It was great fun for us to have Thanksgiving with family.  We had sweet potatoes that weren’t purple.  And real American turkey.  Garth cooked the bird and it was super yummy!  There was my Mom’s famous pear jell-o and my sister’s famous raspberry jell-o, (We didn’t have Jell-o in Indo.  There was this stuff called agar-agar and it was made from seaweed…not the same.)  And real cranberries!  I love cranberries!  But even better than the food, was the family time.  It is always precious!

Speaking of Indo - Please continue to pray for Sentani.  Due to some problems that were going on, the dorm we left has now been shut down, and the  kids have been shuttled off to people’s homes.  The dorm parents are going back to the States, and all of the Indonesian helpers are without work.  There is unrest, and unknowns regarding what will happen in the future.  They are in desperate need for some good, committed people to minister there as dorm parents.  Please pray for that need.  And for us, as it is so sad to see all of this happening to people we care so deeply for.

Here are some pictures of our week: