Luke's Birthday and Mother's Day

 Luke just turned 24! He is a special boy who likes TV, looking out the window, playing with trucks, and whatever is next. He reminds of things over and over until they happen and then he is on to the next thing! We got to take him to an Indians game and out to eat for his birthday.

We celebrated our moms on Sunday. We are so grateful for our moms! Ben and Jennifer's moms came over Sunday evening. (Didn't get any pics) Here in Indianapolis it was a beautiful day so we spent most of the evening outside. We got some decent pictures at church in the morning too. You can see below.

Graduations and Last Family Get Away

 We are coming up on some more big changes for the Kunkel Family! Levi and Alanna are getting married in 18 days, Jacob is leaving for basic training for the space force in about 6 weeks. We were able to get away for a long weekend at a friends lake house before these changes happen. Probably our last vacation as a family of 10. We had some really great weather for last part of April. Here are some pictures of our time away.

Lake was cold but didn't keep kids from swimming and kayaking

Lots of park time

I (Ben) might have fallen a bit behind on the hike I did with the boys.

Almost everyone

Levi and Alanna recently graduated as well so we celebrated those accomplishments with them, of course. Levi finish an associates degree from a community college here in Indianapolis and Alanna her Bachelors in Education from Northern Kentucky University. They both graduated with honors and we are proud.

Ministry with Red Nueva Vida in the U.S.

 Ben has enjoyed learning and growing in his new role as National Coordinator of Red Nueva Vida in the United States. His work looks different each week, but he is connecting and building relationships with the Pastors and churches and supporting them in different ways.

This was from a recent visit to one of our churches just north of Chicago.

This was some church multiplication training that Ben did recently.

He has also helped with our Bible Institute facilitating some of the topics shared there.

Thanks for continuing to prayer for our work amongst Hispanic Churches!

Easter and Sofia's Birthday

 

We have had some celebrations recently with birtdays, easter and other various events. When you have a big family there is almost always something to celebrate. Of course, we took time to reflect on and celebrate the resurrection of our King Jesus. The picture above is on Sofia's 7th birthday, April 1st. Below are some additional pics of easter and Sofia's birthday and some other fun time together.

Jimena Sofia Kunkel 7 years old

The whole crew.

Palm Sunday

Easter Sunday Fun

Egg Hunt

Recent visit with Mamaw after last surgery to fix hip replacement.

We got in on the solar eclipse viewing too.

Birthdays, Gotcha Day and other Misc Pics

 We had a gathering to celebrate Ben's Moms 75th birthday this past weekend. It was fun seeing some people we don't get to see too often and some we hadn't seen in years.

We had to get new passports for some of the girls recently for our upcoming trip to Guatemala.

Alanna celebrated her 21st birthday on the 4th of March, the same day we celebrate bringing Sofia home to live with us. It's hard to believe it has been 4 years!

Emma loves her (Jakey pie) she calls him