Spring is here in full bloom and I cannot tell you how refreshing it is!   After months of limited sun and darkness and cold,  things are looking so bright and beautiful.  The sun does not set until 10:30 pm and it is just going to be brighter and brighter,  later and later each night.    It starts getting light around 3 am, too.  On June 21st, the sun will not set at all.  It is one of the biggest...

We were able to have a group of four American college students over to our home for dinner last week.  They are a great group of Christians.  In the next few years they will be learning Estonian and evangelizing on the university campus here in Tallinn.  Their names are Megan and Josh ( married for a year and a half ) and Andrea and Shara. I decided to put the school books away for the day.  I put three...

Wow, I have gone a long time without writing on my blog.  It isn’t because I don’t have anything to write about.  My computer is sick. : (   I have spent all day uploading and fixing up some photos.  Bob has been back from the USA for 2 weeks now.  The doctors found out he has a 2 inch tear in his intestine and because of that he had a severe infection.  He has been on antibiotics for 3 weeks...

We have been blessed in the last 7 weeks to have had visitors from the United States.  In February, a small group from our home church in MN came to visit us for 8 days.  Last night we had the Holladay’s over to our house.  Bro. Holladay is the BIMI European director.  It was such an encouragement to have them and our team over to our house for dinner. We had everyone over for dinner the night before...

And it’s Sarah’s!!   Our little Sarah Grace accepted Christ into her heart and life last Saturday night, February 28th!!   Bob and I have this philosophy that we will not push our children into salvation because we know that we can get a child to repeat any prayer after us; but rather we wait until our children come to us with the realization that they need Jesus in their hearts and lives.  ...

Last night we had a Chinese couple over for dinner.  Their names are Huang and Lisa ( she gave herself an English name ).  They go to our church and just recently Huang became a Believer.  ( An answer to Lisa’s prayers!! ) I just never know what is going to come out of my kids’ mouths!  It makes me nervous sometimes.  Last night Samuel brought out his Go Fish card game.  He said to Huang...

For the past couple of weeks I have been reflecting a lot on the family that God has given to me.  I guess we can all play the “what-if game”.  What if I had never heard about Jesus and His love?  What if I had never gone to AR to teach and met Bob?  What if Sarah had died from the blood infection she had in Brazil?  What if it were our car in Sao Paulo that was surrounded by gunmen instead...