Traveling

Tonight, we arrived at OMS headquarters in Greenwood Indiana, where we will be staying this week for meetings. We will be staying in a small apartment "on-campus". We have a full schedule but probably won't have much to blog during this time. It's a time of reviewing what we need to accomplish before we return to Mozambique, debriefing, and reviewing our furlough schedule. This will also be the time we establish our funding needs that we have to meet before we can return.

Part of our time is getting checked out by the OMS contracted doctor, who is also a specialist in tropical medicine. I think that means that he studied in the tropics or only uses medicines from the tropics or maybe he wants to live in the tropics? ;-) We don't have any issues that we know of but they want to do some blood work and see how we are doing compared to five years ago. We pretty much had a checkup in South Africa not too long before we left, so there shouldn't be anything new to learn.

We haven't heard too much from our colleagues in Mozambique. We understand that the Kelly's have arrived, which will be a wonderful addition to the team and we pray the make the adjustment to living there quickly.

We stopped at a Kroger grocery store on the way in to Greenwood, Indiana tonight to pick up some fruit, cereal, and coffee for the morning. We were really wowed by this store - America is so blessed - the grocery stores are just unbelievable. So nice, so easy. Wow! We still just stand and look at the aisles of food, overwhelmed. Tonight, Ann said - you go pick out a cereal box - it's just too overwhelming for me tonight. In Mozambique, we were overwhelmed if the store had any cereal - one or two varieties was a treat!

On our way here, we passed through Nashville to see the Grandson. At one point I was just sitting holding him and looking at him with tears running down my face. I asked Ann, how is it even possible that I can love this little guy so much, so instantly!

Blessings to you this week.

Dave & Ann

"Thy kingdom come...." from the Lord's prayer.

Thy - not ours

Kingdom - you are the king now; nothing happens that You do not know about.

Come - return Lord Jesus, but not until all you intend have found the joy and peace from knowing you. While I want you to come quickly from a personal standpoint, there are so many in this world who do not yet know You. Bring them to you, bring workers to the harvest field so they can hear the Good News!