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Long time…

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

So it has been a really long time since we have posted anything. Let’s attribute that to busyness at work and school and life in general…not lazyness. Mmmm, ok maybe not. Ah well, so what are the most recent things? It seems like Nicole and I have been traveling a lot. In the beginning of September Nicole went to India and I went to Brazil. Later in the month we spent some time with some family up in the middle part of the state. A definite highlight was going to see a couple Red Sox games in Tampa with Susie and Steve, Kirsten, and Auntie Ginger. We stayed with Nicole’s parents while we were up that way which is always nice.We spent half the month of October in Africa, one week in Kenya and one week in Niger. Niger was a real treat because we were there for work but Dave and Hope kind of hosted us and so all our time was spent with them. And I just got back from Argentina last week, hopefully one of my last quarterly printing trips for a long time to come.

We are up in Massachusetts right now for Thanksgiving and a little early Christmas celebration as well. It has been a great time seeing our adorable nieces and nephew and the rest of the family. Got to spend some time with the Minnichs dropping by my parents house for a few hours too. Joel, Jared, Jake and I spent some time outside playing wiffleball despite the frigid weather.

And now we are looking forward to Christmas up in Lakeland with the other side of the family. I am not sure what I am looking forward to most time with Ella and Elijah, doing mostly nothing, or shooting with Kyle (I think I am even going to buy a new gun before Christmas so we have something else to shoot besides the .45).

Well, I need to go now. My ten year high school reunion is tonight…joy. Here are some pcitures….

Sam and me

Nicole and Sam

Dave and Sam

Hope

Jake and the boat!

Sophia and Dan

Jon and Lauren

Nicole and Lauren

The Minnichs

Joel, me and Jared

Me and Kate

Opening presents

The nativity

El Salvador – Distribution begins

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Distribution begins for my team that is. The national church has been hard at work here for weeks and there are 4 other teams from the US in El Salvador this week distributing the Book of Hope. And, an absolutely incredible group of Response Team members who have taken care of all the details . . . maybe they can all hang around during Hope Celebration . . .

We are working with an awesome team from a Salvadorian church. I love them. They love the children of El Salvador and put a ton of energy and love in everything they do.

What I love the most are the children! It is amazing how much you can communicate with smiles and a digital camera. They ALL wanted their picture taken, and then they wanted to see their picture. I had a great time taking their pictures and hugging them.

Best of all, they each got their own copy of God’s Word – -and an invitation to see the GodMan on Friday.

I’ll try to post more later this week. Here are a few photos . . .

My Book of Hope

My new friends