Supporting Churches

At the bottom of the page I have added a map of the states in which we have supporting churches.

States We've Visited

If you're curious to see where we have been, scroll down to the bottom of the page and take a look at the map I've added. We've had meetings in all but five of those states...New York, Iowa, Kentucky, Delaware and Vermont. That means we have had meetings in 22 different states over the past two years! Praise the Lord we're at the end of deputation. Only four more scheduled meetings!

Family

Picture taken by Allie.Just relaxin' in the prophets chamber.
The girls in front of a cute barn painting in one of the recent nurseries.

Central Baptist Church ...Revisited

It seems like lately we have been "revisiting" many of the churches we went to last year on deputation. We really enjoy it when we get to go somewhere where we know the people and have a good idea of what to expect. Central Baptist Church is no different. Last year we were only able to make it to one day of their mission conference because of a confusion in the conference dates. This year we were only able to make it to two services. Pastor Conley and his family really went out of their way to spend time with us. We were really blessed by the fellowship we had with them.

Pastor Conley and family
Mrs. Paula Joe was the lady with whom we stayed while we were in town. She was also a great blessing to us.
Allie's photography ...one of the pastor's daughters and her friend from the church.
After this meeting we had quite a drive ahead of us. We had to try to make it from New Hampshire to Tennessee in two days. This is a long trip, but even longer when you have three children and a newborn that likes to eat every three hours! The first day was a rather rough day. We tried to get over 10 hours of the trip done that day, and we succeeded. We were all VERY glad to be out of the van at the end of the day!

When we crossed over one bridge we saw this little lighthouse, which I thought was pretty neat as I've never seen a lighthouse before in person.
The Tappan Zee bridge was the bridge we crossed. We don't enjoy crossing big bridges, and we are always thankful to make it safe to the other side! :)
The second day of travel was quite a bit easier, and we even made it to our destination by 5:30 that evening. We had planned on not making it until about 8:00, so we were pleasantly surprised! We are enjoying another conference here in Tennessee and plan on being here until Wednesday. Pray for us that we can be a blessing to this church, and that we can see some fruit during these last few weeks of deputation.

The Candy Store

In between meetings in New Hampshire we stayed with the Schwanke family in Wilton, NH. We had a great time of relaxation. One afternoon we went on a little trip to the candy store. This little store is known for their homemade candy canes at Christmas time. We were told they had the "best" candy canes in the world! They hadn't started making them yet, so we didn't get to try them.

We did get the girls a treat though, and we let them pick out whatever they wanted...within reason.
They're ready to go inside!
Yummy...all kinds of choices!
Judah isn't concerned about anything.
So many choices ... Can have this? Can I have that?
Finally the decision is made ...chocolate lollipops!
We also bought some for the Schwanke kids for a "thank you" to them. They all had great fun eating them!

Purgatory

We had a meeting with our newest supporting church last Sunday in Rhode Island. We enjoyed the day with Narragansett Bay Baptist Church, and had fun getting to see our friends at the church. We were in their mission conference last year, and we were excited to hear that over a year later they were able to take us on for support. That church has an afternoon service, and that evening we were able to drop in at another church close by that was having a missions conference. We had a great time visiting with Tom and Christy Krampert, some friends from college. I wish I would have had pictures from our day, but it is taking me a while to get used to getting pictures everywhere we go again.

On our way back to where we were staying in New Hampshire on Monday morning we stopped by Purgatory Chasm State Park. We were very curious about it being that it had such a strange name. It is located in Sutton, Mass. and is famous for its 70 foot deep granite wall...the chasm. We didn't hike to the chasm, which was only a very short distance, we just looked at the pictures of it and went on our way.
We also took pictures of the kids (only Allie and Bethany) on some of the rocks in the park.

Pretty New England Foliage

I was so excited to find out we would be going to New England again during autumn. Last year the trees were simply breath taking! This year wasn't quite as brilliant as last year, but there were still some beautiful sights!