Our Family goes back to Miranda

This time it's just us as we head back to Venezuela
to work with our partner church over Spring Break

Group shot at the new land during our going away service.
We held up a copy of the Huntsville Times in hopes we can get published in their Travel section.

In contrast to last year's rush of excitement about international missions in our church, life seems to be intruding more and more in 2005. When it came time to make the arrangements for this year's Spring Break trip to Venezuela it turned out that only our family could get away during that week. So, off we went. It was a very different trip in many ways. Without others along to introduce to the new culture, language and food, we pretty much arrived and got right to work That also served to make it a more special trip, since it felt like we were back home, visitng our family and friends. For the first time we got to be a part of a baptismal service and share the Lord's Supper with the Miranda congregation. We also got to be there for the Easter Sunday services. The result was a great time of fellowship, worship, and service! Visitng homes with teams from the Miranda church, inviting folks to church and presenting the Gospel Football outreach at the new land Scooter rides with Alvaro Baptismal service at the Henriques home. Dave giving the Easter sermon, with Karen translating

Pastor Ivan's sermon at the Baptismal service The new pool at the Henriques home was good for more than just baptisms :-) Three boys on a homemade go cart who we encountered on one of the streets where we were doing evangelism visits. Looking over the new land our church has helped buy. The wall is nearly complete. The lovely Karen watching the guys in the pool from the hammock Map at the church showing all the places the Venezuelan Baptists have missionaries of their own.