A BUSY FEW MONTHS

I knew I hadn't "blogged" for a long time, but 2 months is quite "a stretch". The month of May found us putting over 3,000 miles on our Subaru as we traveled at least every weekend, as well as mid-week on some occasions. It was a wonderful time of visiting family and support team, celebrating birthdays, etc.
One of our favorite times in June is when Adam and Melissa take their youth group to S Carolina for evangelism and discipleship training. Levi, Ethan and Anna spend that week at our house. We always have lots of fun. Here is Ethan taking his first ride on our 2 year old Haflinger, Spirit.

We took a week of vacation and spent time at Rolling Ridge Animal Park, Heini's Cheese Factory (took a tour - everyone especially enjoyed the many free samples - did you know they make chocolate fudge cheese :-), swimming, biking in the local park, McDonalds and Wendy's, and making Father's Day Gifts in the garage with Dennis (I admit I was a little nervous when I saw the table saw in operation, but was thankful for goggles and hands on protection from grandpa), and Logan, Ohio's Washboard Festival.

Our first week back from vacation, Richard and Ashley Whittemore came to MMS for their missionary candidate evaluation. Missionaries with SCORE, Richard and Ashley were accepted for apprenticeship with MMS once their support is raised. There are now 5 families raising support to begin training. We had fun getting to know Richard and Ashley when we hosted them at our house for dinner Thursday night. Our Haflinger, Brenda, was a big "hit" as Ashley spent some fun time horseback riding.

As much fun as it is to meet the new families, part of MMS is saying goodbye to those you have come to love and serve with for the past few years. David Mozombite and Gertjan Kamphorst have just passed their FAA exams and now have their A & P licenses (Airframe & Powerplant). This means they are "moving on" to other ministries to fly and/or repair airplanes for those ministries. This was a celebration dinner hosted by Gertjan & Glenda. A new experience for us, grilling your meal while you visited.