Meet Pastor Jose Luis and his wife Sylvia, and their kids: Elizabeth, Jose Luis Jr, Sylvia Jr, Estefani, Naum, Gerson Daniel (named after my brother), and little Ashley (guess who she is named after?)...thats right, 7 kids between the ages of 1 and 12, and the parents are in their early 30's. Whew! My brother met them when he lived here, and they became good friends. Now, they are living in a little mountain community right outside of town, and our churches work together a lot. THey are such an amazing family of faith...the kind that sits down at the table to give thanks to God even when there is no food to give thanks for. And when the parents start to doubt, even their 4 year old son encourages them to keep praying because he has faith that God will provide. You would imagine that their house would be a zoo, with all of those kids living in a two bedroom house, but no...they are the best behaved kids i've ever met. We went to visit them this week to do some planning..this summer a mission group is coming down from Quaker Gap (the church I grew up in) and we will be working in Jose Luis's community, doing service projects and VBS. I wanted you all to meet them via the Blog because they are so special to us, and an awesome example of a family truly committed to serving God, despite the sacrifices that come with that.

In other news, it is extremely hot here this week...like the kind of days that you take 3 cold showers and you still just cant cool off. But in good news, we bought our plane tickets this week to go to the states!!!! God really pulled a miracle on us...we ended up getting the tickets almost at half price because of an error on the Delta webpage. We'll be home on June 15th, just in time to have lunch with Dad for father's day! we will be in NC until July 7th, so we hope to see you!