Pastors' Retreat

This past weekend (Friday and Saturday) we hosted a retreat for Baptist pastors and their spouses. Our facility, appropriately called 'The Yellow House', is great for such events. Kaspars and Liene participated as well as helped to put on the event. The rest of us took responsibility for the food, cleaning, some child care, and other such items. It was a lot of work but I think everyone had a good time. The Baptist Bishop came out from Riga to speak to the group several times, giving updates on what's happening and encouraging all to trust God for big things.

Our teammate, Dave, returned this weekend also. It is great to now have everyone together. Sunday afternoons are a good time for catching up and good conversation so we invited Dave over for lunch and found out about his time in Scotland.

This coming week I am expecting to get hooked up to a high speed internet service (using dial-up at the moment) and that should be both less expensive and much easier to get larger files that people send. Right now pictures take forever to receive. Getting this set up only happened because Katie was able to help me - actually she did all the talking and arranging. Now when they call this week to let me know which day and what time they are coming - I hope Katie is around to talk with them!! :)