Mother's Day, Luke's Birthday and Prom

 Yesterday and today (Today is Mother's Day in Guatemala) we are celebrating. We celebrate Jennifer and our Moms. We are also celebrating Luke's 21st birthday which is hard to fathom. How can our oldest be 21? Luke has taught us so much and we are grateful for his life. I am grateful for the amazing Mom God has given me and also my amazing wife who is a great Mom. 

Grateful to do life with this fine lady!

We are grateful for our moms too. These are the most recent pics we have with them. Hard to be away from them on Mother's day but we were glad to at least talk with them yesterday.

Jake is becoming a fine young man as well.

Luke needed a little help blowing out candles.

He was happy with Rice Crispy Treats and Mom's pizza bread for dinner.

Levi was also able to be in Texas with his girlfriend for her prom. He stopped there on the way back from our trip to Colombia. Hard to miss these types of moments with him but glad he was able to go.

Trip to Colombia

In 2018 we had a young man, Yeison from Colombia come and intern with us in the Church. He was a huge help in getting New Life Church started. This past week he got married. I was able to go and meet Levi there in Colombia for the wedding. I had the privilege of preaching at the wedding. I also got to share in a church there on Sunday May 2nd. It was an interesting trip with all the COVID restrictions and also the protests happening in Colombia but it was a good trip overall. It was good to spend some time with my son and also share with some other Pastors, churches and ministries there. We were in Bogota and Medellin. Below are a few more details and pictures:

We arrived Friday night into Bogota. We spent Saturday hanging out with Yeison and our host family. We also went and met Yeison's family who was staying in Yeison's apartment about 30 minutes away. (Bogota is a very big city about 10 million)

Sunday I got to preach at a church there in Bogota.

This is Pastor Diego. Below is his family and leaders that led the service. The churches there are still virtual.

Hanging out with Yeison and his brother Yeimer.

The wedding. It was in a beautiful place.

After the wedding we got into the back of a box truck and tried to get to the airport (Long Story) we finally made it and got to Medillin another city in Colombia about 10 hours by car but only a 1/2hr flight. We spend time with our friend Remberto and his family. He leads the New Life Network in Colombia.

They have a great public transportation system with cable cars that go over the city which gave us a great view and tour of the city.

This was a touristic place we visited. We climbed to the top.

My favorite part was hanging with this guy. He is becoming a fine young man. We hope to travel more together in the future. The Lord is doing some cool things in his life!