Family & Friends

We have had a great beginning of 2007! We have enjoyed the company of many visitors. Our babysitter from Wisconsin came for awhile. Susan's parents stayed a few weeks. Then Matt's parents joined us for a couple. After that one of Susan's college friends hung out. Then Susan and the kids went to the LA area for 6 days to see her sister & family and a friend from New York. They went to the beach often and to the San Diego Zoo. Here are just a few photos of the fun we have had!

Jesus

April Fools

It's snowing in Tucson!!!! April Fools!!! Really it is hot here! :)

I haven't written forever. I can't believe it has been a month. My parent's were here for Emily's Birthday and some fun and we had a wonderful time. Emily is double digits now. Ten years old and she is becoming a little lady. This morning the girls were practicing their French. "Bon Jour!"

Hey, We are here in Tucson raising support for France. Send us a note to say "Hi."


Peace,

Matt

a week ago

When we got back to Tucson, Susan and I prayed and asked God to confirm which city He wants us to be move , live and minister in. We had such an encouraging time in France. We really enjoyed connecting with all the teams, loved all the cities but we still have a strong leaning towards one city. There was one team member that we discussed God's will in the roll of the dice. Susan and I were having a fun discussion about when and if God would confirm through an avenue like that. So the team member for fun had three sticks all of them were different sizes and the short one was for Paris. Susan grabbed the short one. Cool. So a week ago after we had prayed for God's confirmation we had the girls write the cities on three different pieces of paper and put them in a container. Then we had Nathaniel grab one out of the can. Guess which piece He grabbed out? Paris.

I was floored that God would confirm our direction like that.

My faith has been stretched and deepened!

Peace,

Matthew

Grenoble

We spent the day with the team from Grenoble, ate lots of wonderful food at the Pavey's, talked about ministry, laughed at Matt Glock and received a lot of very helpful information. I know God will direct our paths and clearly tell us where and what He wants us to do. Tommorrow we meet with another team that works in Grenoble and we will then head to Paris on Tuesday. We miss our wonderful kids and are very thankful for their Nana, Papa, and Katrina for watching them. Peace out

Beautiful Swan

Here is a beautiful picture of a swan in the Rhine river. You are looking at Germany from the France bank.

Strasbourg

So the day that Irene took us around Strasbourg, over the bridge to Germany, to a bakery, and to see where the gypses live was very beautiful. It has been cloudy and raining every day except that day. We then went to Kyros which is a Cafe where we hung out and met people. It was a lot of fun connecting and learning French. The coffee here is so much better than Starbucks. Sorry Starbucks. And the food!!! Awesome.
The hospitality from the teams has been amazing! We took a 6 hour trip today in the train to Grenoble. We are very excited to meet all of those here! Good night talk with ya later.

Paris

Hey everyone. We found our way to the Hotel and Todd Burkes gave a us the Grand tour of Paris. After a day and a half we received our luggage which was nice cause it is a lot colder here then Arizona. The time was really good and very informative. We then jumped on a 4 hour train and found our way to Strasbourg. We are here visiting with Irene and have had good conversations about ministry and Strasbourg. Peace-more to come later.

Phoenix Airport

O.K. so we made it through security without any problems. They didn't strip search us. No reason to do that anyway. Now we are on our way to Detroit to meet our connecting flight to France!! Later!!

Wild about God

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Paris Here We Come!

We will be travelling to Paris February 5th-February 15th. Katrina & Nana & Papa will be taking care of the kids. We are excited and a little nervous. Please pray for protection and wisdom.