Highlights of 2009

We thank God for a good and growing year.  Some highlights of 2009 include, but certainly aren’t limited to:

• Our relatively easily obtained one year work permit!
• Helping our church launch EPIC – a week long mix between VBS and AWANA
• Completion of the fire pit project at camp and the fellowship while working on it
• Lydia’s 2nd place finish in her 1st Croatian archery tournament
• Seeing God working in hearts and lives at camp
• Becoming more involved at our church -Dan helping lead a boys’ group for 12-14 year-olds and Bonnie teaching Sunday School for 6-12 year-olds during the Bible Study time
• A time to reconnect with Dan’s mom and step-dad on their trip to visit us this fall
• Beginning a small home school co-op that Bonnie and the girls are involved in
• Dan’s 40th birthday and those painful shingles – could there be a connection?! 
• Ellie Beth joining a fencing club
• On a sad note, Bonnie’s dad Gene is struggling with Lewy Body Dementia with Parkinson’s disease. Being so far away is hard.  
• The completion of the carved verse sign in the dining room – thanks Terry!
• Cooking and hanging out with Jane, Donna, Carrie and Nancy during MK camps
• New co-workers, Juice and Beth Ortiz
• Another hard thing, our team mates, the McCollum's, resigned from SEND and returned to Minnesota
• Bonnie working on her Croatian and ping pong skills with Rahela
• All of us being together at the EBS camp this summer
• Catie, Zelphia and Aurora Peterson’s visit in February