Way of the Sun.

What a summer, it has been! Our family hosted two large groups from Oklahoma. First, Awestar Ministries came and performed somewhere around a hundred dramas. Several church starts have developed from this work. Second, a group from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, Oklahoma came with 23 people. One man led seminary classes, another goup conducted medical clinics in 4 different churches (somewhere around 1200 patients including 80 tooth extractions...ouch!) and their VBS did 3...yes, 3...VBS outreaches per day averaging about 50 children at each location.

On the Arizona end of things, 3 young ladies from Grand Canyon University taught English and led a Compassion International Project. We were happy to be able to help them get here and get set up.

Tomorrow, Bryan sadly goes Back to Arizona State. We so appreciate him and his brothers and sister. They are awesome missionaires. We saw two very clear incidents this summer and they point back to working with their first missionary ¨uncle¨seven years ago (Ken Bowie). I could almost hear Ken´s voice. Katie was with a group at a church handing out toys. She told them, ¨Better to go into each individual Sunday School Room and hand them out there. That way, nobody gets doubles and everyone gets something.¨

Matt was with a medical team while I was out setting up for the next day. Somehow, too many patients had been admitted and the team was looking at a 11 PM exit time! Matt told someone, ¨We better do some triage. Sick people only get to see the doctor. Everyone else needs to be sent to the team of nurses and given anti parasite medicines and vitamins.¨ The team heard him and got home to supper by 7:30.

I cannot wait to see what God does with these kids.