Final Chapter

We arrived safely home last Sunday morning. It has been a challenging transition to “normal” life this year. We are grateful that there was a holiday last week to help us recover from the trip and the traveling, but the combination of change of pace…

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Camping a mile above Sea Level

The internet access was, as expected – unavailable, unless we had access through a cell phone – which we didn’t. So, we have a rather long post today. But if it is any consolation, it will probably be our last post until we return.
Barb, Lilly and I…

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Ready for Camping

We had a very pleasant day today. Starting with our first solo venture on the transit system, getting from our borrowed apartment to the church. The service was an amazing time of worship – even though we did not have an interpreter to understand the…

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Midway Point

We just returned from the Leader’s Retreat. As we had thought, there was no WiFi without a phone (the Phone signal was very strong), which is why we haven’t had a post in a few days.
The retreat was a great deal of activity. Each of the…

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set to go

PLT. We are just a couple of hours from leaving for the Leaders Retreat.
Yesterdays was a day of planning and preparation. The Retreat schedule was reviewed and our part of the detail was rather quickly confirmed. More effort was required for the…

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Central Asia 2018: Fine Tuning the Plans

What a wonderful day! What a wonderful place! What a wonderful people!
Today we had some time before the planning meeting so we scheduled a visit with one of the B4T operations and met several others that were meeting for the same purpose. We had a…

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Central Asia 2018: Safe & Happy arrival

Praise the Lord, for a safe and uneventful journey to Central Asia. Our flight arrived at 6:20 this morning. It is so strange to think that as we are experiencing the breaking of dawn, the folks back in GR haven’t even seen the previous…

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