Good morning to all. It is a HOT day in the Netherlands, just like the last 4. Very unusual for this time of the year but the locals are loving it. It is the first tropical weather they have had this summer and the sad part is the kids are all back in school.
Lots of water activities here, boats and skiing are very popular and swimming also.
Let me tell you how we arrived at where we are.
A few years ago, while on a project in Florida, we met the most wonderful family of missionaries who were in the states itenerating. We mentioned we would like to come to France some day. Well, they are back in France and around April we made contact and asked if there was any work we could do for them if we visited for a while. We were so happy when they replied, of course, and then we set our sights on coming some time this year. As it worked out, there will not be a lot of work (not like our usual projects) but some things they would like to be done that we can do.
We will be doing some renovation in the local church they attend and then they have invited us to go with them to Marseille later in October to help a single missionary lady work with street children and gypsy children for a week long VBS. Peggy is excited because she had just said to me a week before knowing this, " I am so sad I cannot work with children this year", So God knew her heart.
We decided, since this will be our only chance to be in Europe, to try to connect with a friend we had met in Las Palmas on the Africal Mercy Ship a few years ago. I contacted him and he said of course he would love to see us and we have been able to visit for 2 days with him and his lovely family. We had a great time and we got to see Dutch life in their village.
Today we celebrate 44 years of marriage, I am blessed, Don't have anything special planned, maybe a cruise around Amsterdam and just being together.
Keep us in your prayers as we travel to France on Monday. Pray we fit in and can learn a little of the language and culture so we don't appear as rude Americans.
Here are few pictures of Amsterdam and our sweet friends in Zuidland.
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