Summer is here!

Yes, you read that right: Summer. No, not necessarily because of the weather, although that hasn’t been bad either. We pretty much have three weeks of Spring here and half the time that feels like Winter. This year, we were “lucky”.  

A few weeks ago we started to see signs of summer when new faces would appear in the stores, the library, the local restaurant, at church, but mostly wandering the streets. You can always tell that the canneries are getting ready when there are people walking back and forth into town, or you see those typical “Summer Vehicles” (mainly the “how- are- those- trucks- still- running- trucks”).

It’s always fun to see a few familiar faces who return for the summer year after year.  It seems that most of the time we don’t recognize many with such a huge turn-over of workers, but occasionally there are a few that return year after year. There’s one gentlemen, Fernando, who has been here several years in a row. When he’s not here, he lives in Columbia. He’s a brother in Christ who comes to church whenever he can. They keep him pretty busy at work in the local restaurant. Last weekend Jeremy and I were there eating and he came over with a little bowl of “belated birthday ice cream” for Malachi. I guess he had heard a passing comment in church that it was Malachi’s Birthday that past weekend. What a special treat!

Speaking of Malachi’s Birthday, we really enjoyed it this year! The theme was Disney’s “PLANES” and so there were many “Dusty” decorations, the main character in the movie. (pics on facebook) We were able to have it in the church basement which was wonderful, because we had over 30 people there. It was a special day for the 3 year old. My Birthday, two days later was also a fun day with friends and yummy (sugar-free!) cake and ice cream.

Jeremy has been busy with lots of airplane maintenance and various work projects. He is trying to have all the airplanes up and running, especially the 6 seater. We have our Vacation Bible School team coming in 3 weeks! Which means the first VBS is a month away. The Net should be up and running about that time as well. More on the VBS and The Net ministry to come….

Will you pray with us for all the details of the Summer?