HM Family Conference April 12 - April 16 2009

Hi Friends,
Happy Easter to you all. While you will be celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, our HM family will be gathering out at Porto Astro for our annual family conference. Please pray for us, there will be 100 of us out at the camp this week!

Please pray:
for good weather; there are no heaters in the cabins and trailers, and 22 children to keep busy inside if it rains!
for Peggy as she is co-coordinating this conference. for her to be flexible and gracious in all the details of the conference.
for us all to be able to have great time with the Lord and His Word.
for team bonding.
for it to be a great time for the team from Canada who will be cooking and providing child care for us.
for safety.

We will celebrate Easter here in Greece next weekend on Mike's birthday, April 19th.

Thanks so much for your prayers.

Work Day at Porto Astro

We had a great work day Friday at Porto Astro preparing for our upcoming family conference. Thanks so much to all of you who were able to make it. The place looked much better after our visit!

Adventures with Scott and Emily

We were so excited to host our first family visitors, Scott and Emily Fedyski (Peggy's nephew and his wife) last week. They came to spend a week with us, checking out Greece and HM. We had a blast. We showed them everything we could think of in just a few days here. In fact, Mike did such a great job as a tour guide they thought maybe he could do that for a job if missions didn't work out for him! Probably our most memorable time was in Corinth when we did not pay attention to the signs and got ourselves locked in at the ancient castle!! We were so thankful for the friendly hospitable Greeks who called for help for us and the lady with the key who came and let us out!

Scott and Emily joined us at working at our weekly love meals and for a work day out at the property on Friday. They were stuck cleaning the bathrooms and did a great job getting those things in shape!

They were able to make a short overnight trip to Nafplio by themselves mid week as well, so it wasn't just all work and no play.

We had some awesome Rook games while they were here, although Peggy and Scott never won a match :( Sorry Scott, my first time playing and I was terrible! I guess you were learning perseverance huh?

Now they are off, and we are back to work. Family conference begins in a week and Peggy is helping coordinate it, so there is lots to do. Please pray for all the last minute details that need to come together this week and for good weather. We don't have any heaters at the property which could make sleeping challenging for all!