Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Labor Day Weekend

This past Labor Day weekend was quite remarkable for us. Our family walked in a Labor Day parade and helped pass out over 1800 John and Romans packets. It was exciting for us to be able to put the Word of God into hands of men and women with the prayer that they will read it and God will show them their need for salvation. A glimpse for us of our future work in Uruguay.

Sunday was spent at South Park Baptist Church in Crown Point, Indiana. They have supported us now for over a year and will be packing our container, as well as mailing our Borrmann Beacon while we are on the field. A couple from this church, The B's, will be flying down to Uruguay with us. We stay with them when we are in Crown Point and the kids especially enjoyed this weekend with them. It's such a relief to have good friends flying with us and helping us to get settled in our new home. Of course we're thrilled to be able to show them the work in Uruguay. Pray for them they have a BIG job!

Some friends took the girls shopping at the American Girl Place in Chicago. It was a lot of fun for them to get something special for their dolls. Isabel was so happy to get a Bitty Baby doll, an early birthday present from her Grandma Jay. The guys got to go to the Chicago Fire pro soccer game where they were caught on camera for the local news. Wish I had a picture of it!

As we prepare to leave for Uruguay we have made several lists of all different categories. The longest has been our container list which includes everything we are shipping into the country. Friday we were able to take our needed furniture list to an overstock/damaged goods warehouse and tick some things off. I'll not bore you in listing all we bought but God was so good to give us great deals. Everything we purchased should have cost us over $15,000 retail and $7,000 on sale. The manager was very generous and sold us everything for $2,400. We still have a few things on our list that we are hoping to get from the same place.

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