PWOC Spring Retreat

The Protestant Women of the Chapel recently had their annual retreat at Trinity Pines in Cascade, Idaho. We were strapped for funds this year and did the Beth Moore “Retreat in a Box” instead of having a guest speaker. It was great! The weather was fantastic (just a tid bit cold, but, hey we were in the mountains in springtime after all). We had such a good time together and even stretched ourselves to try things we never thought we would do like the “Leap of Faith”.

Here I am ready to go climb a tree to a platform 45’ high.

 

 

Eight of us went out on this “leap of faith”! I was shocked so many of our girls would do it. This is something we won’t ever forget! It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done.

Some of us went hiking on their trails. It is so beautiful there!

Pam and I even trudged through some snow.

Kate, Elizabeth and I took a break during our hike and enjoyed the view of the valley below.

Here is most of our group in the dining hall. I am already looking forward to next year’s retreat!

Spring….Finally

Although winter here has not been too severe, it has been LONG. We got ourselves a nice bit of huge snowflakes on Good Friday.

Prior to that weekend, a bunch of us went to Nampa for the Rock n Worship Roadshow.

 

It was a great place to take our group. Most had a wonderful worship experience.

The day after our snowfall, we were supposed to go to the park for a BBQ farewell for the Davis family and John Srihavong. There was too much snow still on the ground so we crammed 31 people into our house for the festivities.

John loves our kitty Molly. John got orders for Osan AB in Korea.

On the right are Tiffany and Mike. Mike got a job in Montana…

These two departures are leaving huge holes in this ministry. We already miss them lots.

The next day was Resurrection Sunday and we had a full house for that.

Our Friday night dinner and study times are also going very well. We sure do love our group.

 

Yesterday, we took Dan and Aaron with us to Nyssa Baptist Fellowship in Nyssa, Oregon. I spent a good part of my childhood in that church. We shared with them what we are doing in Mt. Home. Dan and Aaron shared too. The congregation loved them. It was great!

Dan and Aaron were very well received in Nyssa.

I got to see Grandma!

Richard Adams showed his very nice car to Aaron and Dan.

We had to hurry back to Mt. Home for a Velocity leadership meeting and then a special baptismal Velocity service at the chapel for Colton and Dee.

I took this picture of them praying from the balcony as I’m the one sitting up there doing the A/V stuff.

All these are great things which we are thankful to God for.

I do however ache to hold that grandbaby of ours. For now, we get to see each other on Skype a few times a week.

 

Hit the Ground Running

When we got back from Hawaii, there was not much time for relaxing (even though we only had an hour of sleep on the red eye flight). We got back on Thursday and had people in our house Friday for dinner and study.

Saturday, our supervisors, Paul and Beryl Metko came for a visit. That evening we had a few folks over for birthday cake (happy birthday Aaron!) and a game.

Sunday we had church in the morning, a meeting after church, lunch, a meeting before Velocity and then Velocity. We had around 47 people crammed into the upper room at the chapel annex. We may have to move again. A good problem to have!

Here are some pictures from Sunday.

Lunch at Winger’s with the Metkos. A wonderful time of fellowship and encouragement.

We had missionaries from North Africa share what they are doing. It was great!

Thanks for praying for Velocity. Exciting things are happening and we are praising God for those things!

More Dawson

We are thrilled to be grandparents!

Bringing Dawson home.

The two grandmas pose with Dawson.

Julie (above) two weeks after she gave birth to Dawson.

I already miss them so much! I don’t know when we will see each other again. Jesse is due to deploy this coming fall.

We are very grateful to God for this precious little boy!