We started back into our second session of language school last Tuesday. It has been a very busy week with homework so I am just now getting around to posting this update! Ms. Claire Plante is our professor and a wonderful teacher. She has coffee ready for us at 9 AM and juice and cookies for the kids! Our kids do their school work at her kitchen table and Silas takes his nap in his pack-n-play. Kami and I meet with Madame Plante in her office for school. We are having a great time!Our Pastor Don Strange, from what we heard, had a "six bypass surgury" on Friday. He is still recovering in ICU and should be moving to a regular hospital room today or tomorrow. Please continue to pray for him and his family. We love our Pastor very much and hope he can get back into the pulpit soon!
We had a meeting about 2 1/2 hours away in Sherbrooke, Canada yesterday. Madame Estelle, a friend from church, rode with us and what a great fellowship we had. We laughed and had a great time. The conference was great. Our family sang and I briefly gave a testimony about our call to the mission field. The preaching was great although the messages were mostly in French. Bro. Jason Hamby sat behind me and translated the service whispering. It was a long day for our children who could not hear the translation into English. It is not easy having to spend an entire day listening to preaching that you cannot understand yet our 3 children did a great job listening and had a great attitude! On our way home, Madame Estelle brought some McDonald's coupons so we stopped and had McDonalds! Our first trip to McDonalds since May 8th! We enjoyed it so much! We praise the Lord for safety while driving and for fellowship with God's people!
I do want to mention one testimony from a preacher working on a reservation with indians in the far north of Canada. He has been working for 34 years with these indians and still trying to start their first church........He gave a praise report yesterday and said that they have been able to start leading 3rd generation children to the Lord and these young people are growing in the Lord. He made the statement, "If we had gotten discouraged and quit only after 10 years, these children would not be saved today!" Another missionary in China spoke about scores of chinese getting saved and the growth of the churches there. I am reminded, it is not the size or growth of the church but the faithfulness of God's men and women to bring the Gospel to the world. God is interested in the few that have gotten saved in the indian reservation of Canada just as much as He is interested in the scores saved in China. We should never judge a man's ministry by the size but by his faithfulness and service to the Saviour!
