Happy Birthday Chanelle

We had a family celebration this evening for Chanelle's (our granddaughter) eleventh birthday which is tomorrow. Hard to believe that she is that old already.

Eleven years old!

Yummy cake

Presents of course

A phone call from Uncle Scott and Aunt Stephanie

Vacation Bible School

Early Wednesday morning we left for Granville, Ohio (about an hour of driving) to Spring Hill Baptist Church. A request came in a few months ago for a missionary representatvie from MMS to speak at their Vacation Bible School. We were happy to fill the request. It turns out that we had about 250 kids from Kindergarten to 6th grade (in four shifts) to talk to about mission aviation. Dwight did a great job.  Our prayer is that a seed has been planted in helping these children learn about missions.  There was a missionary speaker for the children each day. A great idea.

A Little Talk With Jesus

Since today is Father's Day I thought I would share the special number that five fathers sang in church today. Of course, Dwight is one of them!

Wedding

Darren and Brittany Jennings

After our drive to Bowling Green, KY we went north the next day to Louisville to attend Brittany and Darren's wedding. It was nice to be able to get together with family for the big event.

Jeremy, Pam, Chanelle, Erin, Carol

Norma with her Aunt Kay (Dwight's Mom)

Javin and Jen

Cousins get caught up. Alburn, Kelsy, Scott, Stephanie

Javin and Chanelle thought the celebration on the rooftop of the Louisville Glassworks was pretty cool

Dinosaurs

Last weekend we drove down to Kentucky to attend Brittany's (Dwight's niece) wedding. Jen and the grandkids accompanied us as we first went to Bowling Green where Dwight's parents live.  The pictures below show our visit to Dinosaur World just an hour north of Bowling Green. The kids loved it. For us it was a very hot day, but they did not seem to mind too much.

Digging for fossils

MMS Spiritual Life Seminar

We just completed two days (Thurs. evening to Saturday noon) of wonderful, uplifting and challenging days as we were skifully led by Tom and Jeanie Eckblad. They were formerly missionaires to Bolivia and later were in Colorado with Missionary Training International. Tom is currently on the pastoral staff of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. Other members of the church came to hold separate seminars for the kids. The MMS Aviation family was really blessed by the ministy of the Eckblads and the whole Bethlehem Baptist team.

Food and Fellowship go well together

 

A time of praise and worship

Tom Eckblad teaching

Tom and Jeanie Eckblad after they were presented with MMS hats!

The whole team is recognized

Little Evan (5) was quite proud of his Converse All Star (Chuck Taylor signature) tennis shoes. When he learned that there were others in the MMS group who also owned a pair, he requested that they all wear them on Saturday together. So of course, a photo session was in order! So we have Jess Grote, Evan Gettle and Dwight Jarboe in their "Chuck Taylors"!