more fun...our farewell...and tears

Chris and Hannah
Paige and Hannah
Nathan
Phil Jen and Claire

Are you wondering why we already had our farewell dinner? This is Lindsay and Eva our mayors

they decided that we would have a cookout for our get together this week. After doing that we had a time of sharing for the families that will be leaving the end of this week (and a single) Chris, Paige and Hannah. What a testimony those two have! God is so powerful and so evident in their lives. We have all learned so much from them! They are heading to Thailand in November! How excited we are for them. Nathan, the youngest in the group is heading to Uganda for medical work! He is so excited to be going and bringing health care to them there! And of course our family well, part of us!
Why the cook out? well, It was the only time we could really get something in due to the paper that we need to have completed by Thursday!! so...here are the pictures from the games to the cookout and sharing/singing after! We are the only ones that are leaving at this point in our training. Everyone else that is here will be here through November. There are 2 more classes that will be going after we leave. So, a small part of the group is leaving and the majority of the people are staying.
What a great time we had fellowship is always great and encouraging isn't it? As Phil and I were reflecting later that night I told him I knew we would make friends, I didn't expect to make such great friendships that will take us all over the world! Imagine what our passports could look like? It is going to be hard to leave, 4 weeks doesn't seem like a realistic time to make those friendships but we did. We are just a great big family here!I thank God everyday for the new friendships that He has given to us! We love you all!!

Fire, Fun and Fellowship

Here at CIT we have "Mayors" for the week. That is the adorable couple pictured above. They have 2 children and their youngest was 2 weeks when they arrived here! you can say that I am getting a nice fix! OK...so the mayors responsible for setting up any activity for us, they are in charge of the keys (and there are a lot of them) They are basically on call when all the CIT staff is gone for the night or weekend. We will not had the privilege of being mayors while we are here, our time is too short. They planned a camp fire Sunday night they provided the fixin's for the smore's and they were yummy!!!! (I know the pictures are late, I have been busy!)
Here are some of the pictures from the evening. Notice the we have our Boston Pride while we are still in the south! Enjoy...



Phil took the kids to a bluegrass and clogging event last week. I was at a birthday party for one of the ladies here. I did attend last nights festivities though. It is in a town about half an hour away as most things are here :) They hold it in an old train station. The kids loved it, got some great energy out! and slept great that night! I guess last night was a lot different that the week before. Oh well, what can I say. We will just have to go again next week before we pack up and start heading north! well...here are a few pictures of the events from last week, the pictures were given to us yesterday which is why they are all being put up here tonight! I know you will forgive me for being late and you will still enjoy them right??



Aside from all the wonderful fun we are having with our new friends here we really are doing our school work! Our time is too quickly coming to an end, it is going to be hard to say good bye to so many that we have become so close with! We are spending a wonderful day tomorrow at the town fair here where we are with a family that lives below us! And then the mayors this week have planned a cookout and volley ball tournament! should be a good, fun day!!
thank you all for your prayer through these past few weeks, we are certainly being sustained by them. The crazy school schedule and making sure that we are having great family time as well can be overwhelming at times. Keep it up, we are coming to the end of this time and will begin yet another adventure all too soon! thanks for your love and support!

Look what I found when I googled our name!

I googled our blog site and saw that Mark Sohmer had put this on God Tube. I think he may have told me...but being the summer/fall that we have had I think I forgot!! Well, for those of you who have not seen our presentation video, here it is! Enjoy it!