Go Holland!

I read an amazing story about a teenager from Holland today. I encourage you all to read it. Visit www.thedennetts.org and read the blog titled "Make-a-Wish Foundation."

Please be in prayer as we finish up our stay here in Canada. This swine flu thing has people concerned, and we are going to be speaking in a town where there is a confirmed case. Ken's mom is plotting a longer stay here due to the flu. We're planning a little kitchenette for downstairs knowing that we would not get along well if we had to share the same kitchen (with the husband's and kids) for an extended period. I think she is just kidding...

Please pray also for all those affected by this flu.

Bikes and Bags

We just saw a great commercial by Cadbury. It shows one bike (and rider), which gradually transforms from a normal bike to an ambulance. The ambulance is just the bike, pulling a man on some sort of cot like thing. It then transforms into a water truck, by hanging jugs all over it. Later comes a school bus, by putting children on the bar, the handle bars, the back fender, etc...
Cool ad, but even cooler is that Cadbury is using your UPCs to send 5,000 bikes to Africa. Africa, where a bicycle really is all those things. How very perceptive of them, and I must say a brilliant idea.
Another brilliant idea we discovered this evening - the grocery store was charging 5 cents for every plastic bag you use for your groceries. What an encouragement that is to use cloth bags...too bad we didn't have any. I wonder, if they started to do that in NH would more people start using the cloth bags? I would certainly remember them more often.

We had a very good presentation at Bridgewater Baptist Church this evening. We were able to share about TCKs and also our need for prayer and financial support. One of the women on the missions committee is a former missionary to Bolivia. It was nice to be able to make the connection to her children being TCKs. The committee had a lot of good questions, and though we were nervous going in we feel that the presentation went very well.
Friday night we have a bigger scale presentation at Ken's home church. Please pray that we will be able to increase our support through this and the other two presentations we have before we head home.

Remember those cloth bags!

Kudos to Guatemala roads...

Kudos to Guatemala roads - how is that possible? I (Joy) must say - the roads in Guatemala are far better than the TransCanada in New Brunswick. First there was the hour stretch of road which alternated between old and new pavement. Being a musical geek I tried to count the number of beats between to see if it was even. If so, than maybe there was a good explanation for the patchwork quilt of asphalt. Not so much even. After we passed that stretch there was a part that bore resemblance to a Wavy Lays potato chip. Too bad you're not supposed to drive in the left lane unless passing, and there were no cars to pass. Though, it wouldn't have mattered much. We only saw 1 police officer on our whole trip, and that was in Northern Maine. 1 officer and we were on the road for 13 hours. I can't even go from my house to the church 10 minutes away without seeing an officer. Guess that explains why people in New Brunswick drive so fast!

We are having a great time here, mainly relaxing and spending time with Ken's parents. It is nice to have the extra sets of eyes around when we do need to do actual work, like studying or newsletters. We have a few speaking engagements while we are here, and we would really appreciate your prayers for those. As you can see we still need quite a bit of monthly support before we can leave, and we are desparately hoping to be on a plane June 29. (Especially now that Ken's only job is in Guatemala, and we don't get health care here after May.)