Newsletters and Holmes County

Karen and I've spent the past two days working on the December issue of Coshocton Flyer, our personal newsletter. All the hard copies hit the mail box this afternoon. We're including our new prayer card with the newsletter. We hope you enjoy both the newsletter and the prayer card. Our new card has more of an "Ohio" feel to it.

Once we wrapped up newsletter production and stopped by the post office, we headed north into Holmes County which is the heart of the Ohio Amish population. It'd been several months since we'd been up that way and it's always a relaxing and a beautiful drive. We did some Christmas shopping, some browsing, and picked up a couple products we enjoy that can't be found locally. There were quite a number of Amish buggies on the road today, the corn stalks are all stacked, and at farm after farm, the horses and cows were lined up along the fence lines watching the sun set. It was quite interesting. But then when you're going to be standing outside all night in 15 degrees, even the animals hate to see the sun go down...

Here are some scenes typical of Holmes County:

Amish Corn Shocks

Holmes County road sign

A Holmes County road

Happy Thanksgiving

Karen makes apple pies under the watchful eyes
of the Canine Quality Control team!

Happy Thanksgiving to each of you and may we truly thank Father, Son, and Spirit for their work, grace, and goodness in our lives.

Tanner's New Hobby: Recycling

There's nothing like coming home in the evening to find
that Tanner's been busy recycling things in the kitchen.

Vacation's Over

It was back to the hangar yesterday morning and it's taken Monday and Tuesday for me to get back into the swing of things. Lord willing, I'll be back up to full-speed and all caught up tomorrow just in time to enjoy the long Thanksgiving weekend.

But while we were on vacation MMS was still busy preparing people and planes for worldwide mission service. All our regular readers are aware of the push to get the Honduran 206 completed. Well, that's pretty much on hold now due to a lack of funds. Consequently, all the manpower (Mike, Ian, Scott, Paul, David, Josh, Gertjan, and Chuck) has shifted over to the Cessna 182 restoration for Moody Aviation.

Chuck pre-fits the rudder pedal assembly inside the fuselage.
That's Scott in the lower left corner installing the nose gear.

Gertjan bucks while David drives a rivet into one of the flaps.

Brian (a visiting MMS grad) works with Ian
to repair the horizontal stabilizer.

As you can tell, there's still a substantial amount of work left to accomplish on this project too.

Brian, Terah, and their three children finished MMS a little over a year ago and now serve with Missionary Flights International, in Ft. Pierce, Florida. They're up for a visit over Thanksgiving. It's great to have Brian back helping in hangar and to have Terah, Evan, Luke, and Sierra back in the neighborhood for a week.