Church Service in Llonquen

Dear everybody,

Every Sunday Danny preaches in our church in Conaripe.

Twice month, we drive up into the mountains and minister in the church in Liquine. Liz teaches a junior high Sunday School class and Danny teaches the adults.

This past Sunday, Danny visited the church in Llonquen for the first time. The work in Llonquen is new. It is located half way between Conaripe and Liquine.

Matti rode up with Dan

A few people in the Liquine church started the work there and it is under the oversight of the elders in their church. Danny was invited as pastor to preach and celebrate the Lord's supper with the group. We hope to encourage the believers who meet there every so often. They are very starved for good teaching!

short clip of the congregational singing in Llonquen.

Pray with us for this group of 20 or so believers who walk for miles to meet every Sunday. They need a better winterized building but more than that, they need good teaching from the Word of God.

Liz

Friends

Dear everybody,

We were so thrilled to have some guests come to our house lately. Mark and Bekah Perry are friends of ours from our Bible College days at Northland Baptist Bible College (now Northland University). During those days, we talked of "some day" getting together again once we were on the mission field. And that day became a reality!

Mark is an assistant pastor in a church in Ohio. They also help out with the Seniors and Teen groups in their church. It was so much fun to reconnect with them and to hear how the Lord is using them.

We also enjoyed showing them our neck of the woods. Of course they fell in love with Lican Camp - Who wouldn't? :). Here's a picture Bekah took of Dan and I on camp property.

We took them to our churches in Conaripe and Liquine. They shared a word of testimony and Bekah joined me in the teen Sunday school I teach.

We went souvenir shopping in Villarrica and Pucon, where they took us out to eat.

Not only did they spoil us with their visit but also brought us some goodies.

What does a missionary miss from the Good Ol' USA?

Chocolate Chips! Bath and Body Works products, Bible study books in English, ziploc bags (yep, I'm not kidding)...

The kids were thrilled with some new walkie talkies and Morgan received some new hair ties. Even our baby girl on the way got some new clothes. Thanks Mark and Bekah!

Mark did me a huge favor when he volunteered to trim the kids' hair for me... no trip to the barber this month! Thanks again Mark!

There would be much, much more to mention but those were the definite highlights. We enjoy visitors so if you get a chance, come and see us!

Liz

New Sign!

Dear everybody,

Many people wonder what we do on camp during the "off time" which follows the crazy summer season.

The best answer to that is:

We LOVE working as a family.

Today was one of those opportunities. We each had our job to do and got the work done.

We installed a new camp sign. We had been working on this sign during the last few weeks of camp. Our neighbor carved the words out and Dan and I painted the logo on it. After getting the posts ready, we were finally ready to mount the sign and set it up at the entrance to the camp property.

The boys helped dig the holes and fill in once the posts were in place. They thought they were pretty big stuff posing by their handy work!

After setting up the new sign, we worked on the new parking lot. We used an invention of Danny's to mark out the perimeter and the new parking spots. He turned a coffee can into a useful tool. He attached the can to a stick, poked a few holes in it, and filled it with chalk. As Micah shook the stick, the chalk came out and marked the line. Voila! Morgan and Matti's job was to hold down the rope while the line was being marked.

Later Dan went into our woods and thinned out a few slim trees that we will use to make the parking spots more defined. Of course Danny had lots of fun while doing that!

Here's Morgan, showing you a beautiful Copihue: Chile's National Flower

Thanks for your prayers as we continue to work on camp in the days ahead.

Liz