Summer Fun

 

This was a gathering for the 4th of July for Ben's side of the family. We had a great time eating, talking, laughing, swimming and celebrating birthdays and the 4th.

We had a gathering for our pastors and families at our home in June. It was a fun time of food, fellowship and prayer. It is not easy gathering busy pastors and their families so I was grateful for the time together.

These are 4 of the 7 Pastors Ben gets to serve.

We were also happy to see our friends from Guatemala the Harmans.

They were staying at this beautiful place on a lake about 2 hours north of Indianapolis.

Here is the whole crew. They have 7 kids and we have 8 so when we used to get our families together it was a crowd ;-)

The girls got to go bowling.

Daddy daughter date for ice cream. Already starting to tell them that any boy who wants to get close to them has to talk to Dad first ;-)

Of course. lots of library visits this summer.

Ben took a day retreat to pray and plan for the rest of the year. He is also working on a 5 year vision. Please pray for this process.

Lake House Trip

 We are grateful for some summer down time this past week. Levi and Alanna were able to be here for a a few days too. It is a beautiful place and great to have extended time together relaxing. See some of the fun below.

This is from our traditional dinner at Cracker Barrel.

We spent lots of time in the water!

Emma most of the time preferred the baby pool.

Trip To Colombia

 Ben took a trip to Colombia at the end of May/beginning of June for some annual meetings with all the other country coordinators. It is always a great time of hearing what God is dong globally through New Life Network. It is also a sweet time of prayer and fellowship with fellow co-laborers. We also had a retreat with the pastors in Colombia and some from Venezuela. Ben was impacted by the challenges confronting the church in Venezuela. See some pictures from this time below:

Our car ride in a compact car with all our suitcases from the airport to the place where we were staying.

During our time with the coordinators we all shared a report and prayed for each other.

Yeison and Liliana did a great job leading. Yeison is now the coordinator of Colombia. (He served with us in Guatemala)

This was our tourist day where we took the public transportation around Medellin Colombia. They have nice public transportation.

More time of sharing

More worship and prayer together.

More pics of our fun tourist day.

Over the weekend we served the pastors in Colombia at one of the churches there.

This was a workship that Daniel and Ben led on Developing a Culture of Discipeship.

This was another workshop we did on global missions.

This was a friend that came and served with us in Guatemala and lives in Medellin.

Mother's Day and other May fun with the Kunkel Krew

 

We had a fun time celebrating Mother's Day with Jennifer and our Moms.

We had a surprise visit (surprise for Luke and the girls anyway) from Levi and Alanna as well. They were passing through for a wedding and it just happened to land on Luke's birthday.

Speaking of Luke's birthday. It is hard to believe that our oldest son is now 25!

Luke loves to go to Indians games so we took him to a game for his birthday.

It's rare that Emma gives her aunts or anyone other than Mom snuggles so Aunt Diane was eating it up.

We had a big party the night Levi and Alanna were here to celebrate Luke and Mother's Day.