Relaxing in Winter Park with Familiy and Friends

January 20th we headed back to my cousins house in Winter Park for the week.  We originally had this scheduled because we were going to speak at Fraser Valley Baptist Church on January 22nd.  Long story short ...the pastor that was there last year set up for us to speak at the church and then he had to move in July.  Before leaving for the States in November we knew that it was not going to work out for us to share there in January but since we already planned to spend the week here we decided to enjoy it.  We did attend the church over New Years and meet one of the elders.  We really enjoyed the service and looked forward to our time back this month. We had coffee with one of the elders the other day and had a great time sharing about the mission and learning more about the church.  Turns out this man is also a missionary with Campus Crusade.  At the end of our time together he invited us back in March to share with the congregation about Samaria Mission and encourage them to consider joining us on outreach in Mozambique in the future.  We are so excited how the Lord worked all of this out and of course that means we also get to come back to the mountains one more time before leaving. 

This was a great week as we got to spend time with my parents, Mark's mom and her husband Bruce and our good friend Mendi.  The kids enjoyed having time with two grandmom's at the same time.  We played, ate, laid around in our pj's all day, ate some more, played some more, watched the fox eat, rested and relaxed.  Luke was able to get his cast off and is now in a splint as his wrist continues to heal.  He couldn't ski but he found ways to have fun anyway.  We will let the pictures do the rest of the talking. 

dinner in Amarillo

love my granddad