After visiting and relation-shipping and preaching at New Bedford Presbyterian Church so many times the last 12 years, it was really neat this week to have Pastor Doug actually preach at "our church" here at Emmaus...
It's been very special indeed having this team here, visiting with us and with Autumn!
Today was their last day, and they grand-finaled with the Citadel. Matt, Jodenel (staff) and Maurice (third year), and Lily and Sofie of course, took them, and they all had an awesome (albeit very l-o-n-g and exhausting) day!
I love this one. They insisted that they were "freezing" up there, so they were keeping each other warm :) Thin blooded blondies!
Matt says that just because everybody jumps off the cliff doesn't mean he's going to :)
They left at 8 and got home around 4:30, then Nora and I fed them all pizza and sent everyone to bed!
This morning at 4:30 am the rest of our EBS/OMS team left for the Dominican for OMS annual spiritual retreat, and so she and I spent the day trying to pack up for our family. Tomorrow morning we leave with the team at 6:30, get to Pastor Elizay's church for the 7:10 service, then get them some brunch and off to the airport and then we also head for the DR to meet up with our team.
I'm not going to lie...Nora didn't help much.
They made good time today, but that was between 7-8 hours...Tomorrow is going to be an incredibly long day. Would you do me a favor and be praying for us? Not much makes me nervous, but I must admit to not feeling too good about making such a long journey on our own across two countries without anyone else to help with driving after such an exhausting last couple of days (who am I kidding...it's been a crazy few weeks!) A seven hour car trip in Haiti and the DR are not like a 7 hour car trip at home, and we would really appreciate extra travel prayers for tomorrow. (Shelley, you have to stop telling me travel horror stories!!!) We've talked and prayed through our other options and none of them are great, either...so....we're going to do our best...and maybe need to stop calling it "retreat" :)
Thank you for your prayers, and all your grace and love for our family.
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