Thank you to Terry, Tim and Andy (MMSer's one and all) for helping remove our old bed, pick-up and deliver a donated less-used bed, and then wrestle it upstairs and around the corner into our bedroom. The seventeen year-old bed had been a good bed but our middle-aged backs and bodies were beginning to demand something with a bit more life left in it. Special thanks to Dale & Deborah for securing the donated bed on our behalf!
Continuing in the "home front" category, Steve, the local appliance repairman, came to check-out our washer yesterday (a 1993 Hotpoint), fixed it for the price of a service call, and said "they don't make them like that anymore...hang on to this thing until you absolutely have to replace it" giving it a prognosis of up to another five years of faithful service. I like that...a washer that could last over twenty years with only one minor repair over the past eight years. They really DON'T make them like that anymore. But then if God could keep the sandals of the Israelis from wearing out over 40 years of wandering in the desert...He just might be blessing us with a washer that won't wear out for 20+ years! Now THAT'S a missionary washer!
And there's even another praise! We're having our socks rocked by blessing after blessing right now. This one is in the transportation department. More on that later...
Weather-wise, we're back into the heart of the Midwestern summer. Dale, one of our MMS staff; and Andy and Paul, MMS apprentice mechanics; are half joking that they need to go to Africa to cool off! Actually, if the weather patterns stay the same for the next two weeks, that will be true. Those three are scheduled to leave for Gabon, Africa on Sunday to disassemble and pack a damaged airplane in a container for shipment back to MMS so it can be repaired. Right now it's forecast to be in the mid-90's here and it's only in the mid-70's in Gabon. How many of you ever imagined it's hotter in Ohio than it is in Africa? I'll have more of that trip in a future blog, too.
Thank you for your prayers and gifts and donations and love and care and friendship and interest and involvement with us as we serve!
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