WE ARE NOW IN THE USA
We arrived in the Kansas City airport and was greeted by a wonderful group of people operating the service for missionaried called Baptist Missionary Transportion Ministry. They we gracious and supplied us with a car for the few months that we are in the country. They also supplied a place for us to spend the night in their church. Wonderful people.
MY FATHER
Then it was the next day and we immediately went to my fathers house. At 92, he is doing very well. Although he has some maintanance medication to monitor his heart, he is doing well. Just before we arrived, he had spent a few days in a very precarious time in the hospital. However, they were able to treat him and he was already home by the time we arrived. It was a blessing to see him again. Of course, he isn’t the robust, hardworking man that I grew up under, but he is still the man in love with the Lord. I appreciate his commitment to the Lord and His service
ANDY and MICHELE
Our next stop was with our you youngest son and their family. While we were there, Gloria and I had the time to get over JetLag. The kids are growing so much and we enjoyed their sweet personalaties. We did attend some of the services of our AlmaMater for the graduation services. Nice to see some OLD friends. Heavy on the old.
Another highlite with Andy was the time on the golf course. It would really be great if I could keep up but he was gracious. It is our plan to spend another few days with them before we fly back in September.
AARON and TONI
Then it was on to see Aaron, our 3rd son. I don’t know how to describe our time in Florida for that week. So good. Aaron has purchased and rides a beautiful Honda 1300cc motorcycle and he has a friend who was so kind to loan his big cycle to me. Soooo, Aaron and I were able to do some riding a couple of times. Put a couple hundred miles on them. For me, that was the hightlite of all the time till now. I do miss my motorcycle.
We can’t forget the special reason for our going to their place. Tyler, their oldest son and one of our elder grandchildren, finished his requirments to graduate from High School and received his diploma from Pensacola Christian Academy of Pensacola, Florida.
GLORIA’S FAMILY
While in Florida to see our son and his family that week, we made sure we had time to see Gloria’s brother Tom who lives in a near city. He had a major accident a couple of years ago, on a SkiDoo and he was considerably damaged. However, his recuperation is impressive and we spent 3 days with them. The family arranged for all of Gloria’s brothers and sisters to be at Tom’s house and we saw the growth the neices and nephews.
During the same weekend, we spent the Sunday services in a supporting church in the town there and became aquainted with a wonderful pastor who had assumed the ministry since our last visit. He is doing a very admirable job with the leadership there.
The time with the Aaron and Toni continued for another week as we traveled to a resort in North Texas and shared their vacation time. The kids gave up their room for us. Wow, what a blessing it was. A beautiful place. The weather was perfect with a little rain, lots of cloud cover and just the right temperature, about 75 degrees. Of course, we had to have another round of golf.
We will continue the trip in our update of this blog next month. We are expecting to have an ongoing amazing time with our family, including my mom and other sons in the coming weeks.
Dennis and Gloria