Pastoral Retreat in Waukegan with Iglesia Jesus El Buen Pastor

Ben had the chance to travel with 3 of the pastors from the Indianapolis area up to Waukegan, IL where we serve another church called Jesus El Buen Pastor or Jesus the Good Shepherd. It was fun to hang out together and serve together. See some pictures below.

Left is Manuel from Living Hope Church in Indianapolis, then myself, Harol from New Life Church in Indianapoli and Leslie from Mt. Pleasant Christian Church. In front is Maribel and Jose who serve at the church there in Waukegan.

This is the same group with some of their leaders there. This church is located in a strategic area of a town that is over 80% hispanic. We are praying for a discipleship movement in this area!

Harol preached at their service Friday evening.

We each shared "un saludo" with the church.

I love getting to serve this man (Jose Juan) and his family. 

On Saturday morning we served the church by doing some training on how to mobilize and form a ministry team and how to form a ministry plan.

It was fun to serve alongside these men.

I am grateful to get to serve churches in these types of ways!

Christmas & Birthday Celebrations and a Trip to Kansas City

 

Here are some pictures and narrative from our celebrations over the holidays. The picture above is from our trip to Kansas City to see Levi and Alanna.

Here are pictures from Grace's 7th birthday.

These are some activities from the girls school. They had a holiday celebration also a Christmas Concert.

These is from our Christmas celebration on Christmas Morning.

These pics are from our trip to Kansas City. We celebrated Christmas and Levi and Grace's birthday too.

Aprons that Alanna made for the girls.

Lots of park time since the weather was good there.

Emma loves giving gifts! Many times it is regifting of stuff that is her sisters ;-)

Dirt pudding for Grace's second celebration at Levi and Alannas.

Unfortunately, this trip didn't end so well. We broke down on the way back and we are still in the process of trying to get our van fixed. Please pray for this as it looks like we need a new motor and it is in Columbia, MO. So that makes it more complicated.

Trip to Kansas City

 Jennifer, Joel and the girls took a few days to go visit with Levi and Alanna in Kansas City. They had a lot of fun. Here are a few pics from their time there.

Lots of snuggles

Levi and Alanna wanted to celebrate Sofia's birthday which is April 1st.

Lots of time in the car, but the girls did good.

 Emma liked this sign

The girls kicked the boys out and they went to watch basketball while the girls had a girls night which of course included nails.