Home Assignment 007, Hot Springs Edition

This is my driving pose!

In March we traveled almost 3800 miles, 3,200+ of those miles were furlough related. We visited in seven (7!) different churches, many, though not all, of those included a presentation of some sort. My wife is still married to me. Our children still come to us and love us. We are normal . . . kind of. . . not really.

Happy Birthday Grandpa Scott!!

More odd facts about springtime- it was -3 degrees Fahrenheit when we left northern Minnesota for Illinois on March 11th. When we arrived that late afternoon in Iowa City it was 50 degrees Fahrenheit. This was our introduction to springtime as we enjoyed 80 degrees almost every day during our week in Illinois.

Yeah for Springtime! Feed the ducks!

Speaking of Illinois, we planned for far too few days with brothers and sisters in the Land of Lincoln. We enjoyed making contact with a new church and "old" friends in Jerseyville, not far from St. Louis. Then it was off to Springfield and a visit with many friends and supporters. We spent at couple of days with family, visited the little zoo that was just the right size for our little toddlers, enjoyed seeing coworkers at BGFM´s annual business meeting and banquet and had some sweet fellowship with supporters and friends of our ministry.

Chimarrão, everyone wanted to try it
Few liked it.

Sunday the 18th was busy as well but just as rewarding. It started with Sunday School at Middletown Bible Church where we discovered a random connection with their pastor, Kiowa Community Church in rural, no RURAL, western Nebraska. Small world. The day wrapped up with a special evening in Eureka, Ronald Reagan´s college home town. We were thoroughly spoiled and hung around another day just to bask in God´s goodness to us.

Baby Ian arrived before we left for SoDak.
He was just a couple of hours old.

The month started with another fun day in Ray, MN and concluded with a missions conference last weekend in Hot Springs. We have tasted from God´s goodness and seen His hand of mercy in our lives. We are blessed to know His care. We have landed for a few weeks and are enjoying an apartment provided for us by our church family here.

 So, that got kind of journalish . . . sorry to bore you with the details. We have good  news to report as well, watch our email update for that. (Follow the links to see the churches we visited.)