Almost the end...

We left last Sunday from Indiana and headed to Paducah, Kentucky to stay with Robin's brother and his family for 2 nights. Then, on Tuesday we left bright and early and came to Tennessee in the Nashville area. We had a meeting with the pastor at Calvary Chapel Rivergate first.

It was great getting to know Pastor Jerry. They have a great property where their church is. My mind was imagining all the great ministry that goes on there. They have a house back behind the church that is their youth room. It's painted really crazy inside. They call it their Bonzai House. And they have a lot of land where they could do camping retreats and things like that. What a blessing.

After our meeting, we headed to our friends' house, Brian and Tara Thacker. Brian went on my first missions trip to Peru. It was a joint team from Calvary Boynton in FL and Calvary Brentwood in TN. We've been here for a few days now. It's been good getting to see Brian again and really getting to know his family. They have 5 kids. I love being around big families. There's just something really special about it.

Liam and Daniel hanging out together.

Yes. This is the Mystery Machine. We saw it driving around in Brian and Tara's neighborhood. Crazy, I know.

Last night, we went to Calvary Murfreesboro. I got to help out a little bit with the worship. And of course, I got to do a spanish song, too.

Pastor Phillip let Robin teach, which was a blessing. He told us after the service that the church had been praying for years for God to send them a missionary to support. They had already been supporting some missionary organizations, like Gospel For Asia, but they were wanting to get behind a real live person, a face that they could see, someone being sent out from Calvary. It was really cool to realize that we were the answer to that prayer. God is good.

Today we visited with Brent and Danielle Campe. They had moved up here from Boynton a year ago. It was good seeing them. And, today is Liam's birthday! Since we already did cake, we stuck some candles in a cookie and sang to him. It was really cute.

On Sunday we will be sharing at Calvary Chapel Brentwood, and then later on Sunday, we will start heading home to South Florida for a few days. Next Friday, we fly to Mexico for an intensive missionary training school in Mexico. Shepherd's Staff does the training school. It will be 3 weeks long. More on that later.

Thank you to everyone for all your prayers, emails, and comments on the blog. It is good to know that people are thinking of us. We are getting really excited about going to Peru. It's going to come quickly.