Death in the family

Please be in prayer for Marlene's family. Her uncle died Saturday afternoon. He had been ill for quite some time and was in a long-term care hospital. The good news in this is that after having rejected the Gospel for all of his life, he had prayed to accept Jesus one week before he died. He was 84 years old.

Annual Members Meetings

September has come and is now more than half-over. What does this mean for members of HCJB Global? Annual Members Meetings or AMM for short. This year we had scheduled 4 days of meetings (3 1/2 hours in the morning and 2 1/2 hours in the afternoon). Fortunately, by the time Thursday noon had rolled around, we were finished!

As has happened since I've been a part of HCJB, we had time for preaching, reports, and the business of the mission. The spiritual part was, as always for me, the best part of the meetings, although it was fascinating hearing reports from the various regions, giving testimony to what God is doing around the world.

Our speaker this year was Peter Grainger, Senior Pastor of Charlotte Chapel in Edinburgh, Scotland. He brought four messages on our theme: "Treasure in Jars of Clay".

The host site this year was our Technology Center in Elkhart, Indiana with video links to Colorado Springs, Colorado, McAllen, Texas, and Quito, Ecuador.

Apart from a couple of hiccups, we had basically no technical difficulties throughout the week. That was a blessing!

The Lone Ranger

We had a few days of vacation and went out to Puembo, a small town about 45 minutes south-east of Quito. While we were there we had the opportunity to go horseback riding.

Joshua, especially was taken with the horses. When I climbed on the first one so that I could put him in front of me, he wanted on the second one. He wanted to ride his own horse. I wasn't so sure about that but thought we'll give it a try. Well, it was like a duck to water. Joshua sat on the horse and rode easily for the 30 minutes we had them.

It was a thrill for Joshua. When we got back to the hacienda, he kept going back out to take a look at the horses.

Joel enjoyed the horses as well, although he was more tired when we actually went for the ride.