God's taking us on a new adventure

We have had a busy year. Kids in school, sports sports and more sports. Overall not enough exciting stuff to bother to share on the blog. God is taking us down an exciting path! We have been praying for quite a while about the direction he is leading us on. It is going to be quite an adventure. Definitely more than I would have picked on my own but without a doubt the one he wants us on. Please pray for us!!! We will need all the prayers we can get!!

Video slide show of our first 3 days in Kyrgyzstan

Transformation at the Men's Home

This project was closest to my heart!!! (Some of the older photos in the video were taken from John's blog)

We are home

We made it home last night. Plane arrived at 11pm then we headed to Skyline. The kids have a tradition of always eating Skyline the minute we arrive back in town from a trip. I think everyone would agree the nicest part of dinner at Skyline was the unlimited refills of lemonade with ice!!!

I will try and catch up on posts later along with doing something with all of the pictures

John's Post on Wednesday

If you want another view on our trip hop over to John's blog and read his take on what we did. His blog is http://actofkindness.blogspot.com. He does a much better job of blogging than I do!!!!

Here is the link for Wednesday.
actofkindness: Mens home update .... (from this point on, NOT to be referred to as an INVALID home.)...#links#links#links

Wednesday

Wednesday was another great day. I came on this trip with all the intentions of blogging about everything we did. Not just what we physically did but the emotional side of it all also. We have been so busy I feel lucky to even type out what we actually did let alone all the details.
Wednesday we spent the majority of the day at the invalid men’s home. We helped more in the garden. Initially the men objected to our help. Eventually they allowed Laura to help set the the cut potatoes in the dirt. The rest of us shifted to another area in the garden and started planting cabbage. Mason used a hoe to make a row with two other men and then Robert and I set the plants at the required distance and then covered them in dirt. Dawsyn helped cut a million potatoes. We quit working after we had planted a hundred cabbage plants and some tomato plants, Laura and men planted 18 rows of potatoes that Dawsyn and crew had cut. Bransen did a little of everything.


We then returned to the apartment, got cleaned up and had lunch. We were with a team from Wisconsin off and on today. After lunch we headed back to the invalid men’s home for English lessons.






Dinner was at Ruby and Lynn’s house. What a fantastic group of people serving here. David and Jayne are from Lebanon Ohio. They teach at the University and Jayne is transforming the country and the foster care system. Ruby and Lynn are from Canada and were a lot here and in several other countries. They, along with the Wrights, are all wonderful caring, hard working people. It has been such a blessing to spend a little time with them.

Two guys who should be home!!