Week of Visitors

This past weekend we were blessed with visitors from Michigan. Hazel and Paul VanKoevering - Gary's sister and her husband came to visit with us. We always enjoy giving new comers directions to our home. There are no street names, no house numbers.....you just follow the directions we give and come in faith. But so far everyone has found us with little difficulty. Luckily everyone has arrived in day light. I would even hate to have to find our road from the west entrance in the dark.....and that's the way everyone comes in.

We have sent a "letter of intent" to the school concerning Release Time, and we are told that the teachers are excited...."oh boy, one more hour to plan". We have asked to have the kids on Tues. and Thurs. afternoons. There are 4 classrooms in Lakeview Elem. ----- Kindergarten through 8th grade. So we will take 2 classrooms on Tues. and the remaining 2 on Thurs. We have asked for at least an hour each time (doing only 1 classroom at a time --- So we will be doing our lessons 4X). We forsee this as a very busy two days with preparation days needed also. Please keep Release Time in your prayers. We are just so thankful that we had the "Teaching Children Effectively" class through Child Evangelism Fellowship. We truly feeling this was a wonderful blessing from God!!!

We did have more girls over for scrapbooking and they really seem to enjoy it and ask when we will do it again. The hard part is not being concerned with the miles that we have to put on to accomplish this......I put on 160 miles for the round trip getting the girls and bringing them home. (And then the next day we had a flat tire.....) Oh Well, "comes with the territory" we are told.

Our days remain full (for the most part) helping my cousin with his ranch work. Moving cattle, fixing corrals etc.......but it's rewarding work and they do need an extra hand. Gary also was able to fix a four wheeler that was stuck in 5th gear. He found the broken part and was able to get the parts needed in a couple of days.....and succeeded in getting it all back together and running again.

We DO have long distance service now!!!! Thank you for prayers concerning that. That was quite the task ..........

For those of you who haven't heard ---- we are grandparents again. Holly and Dennis had a baby boy born on August 15 ---- Sawyer Marvin Kroeze. A real cutie!!!!! :-) Mother, baby and family are all doing well and have returned home again.

Thank you again for your support !!!

Gary and Barb