Camping
After that we had a wonderful week of vacation together, camping near Cologne along the Rhine, and also a few days in the Ardennes. We had often heard about those beautiful places, but never seen them ourselves. Wonderful, what a breathtakingly beautiful nature God has given us!
Erysipelas again
In the previous letter I wrote that Davi, our son, had to undergo a skin graft operation on his knee, which went well, but a few weeks later he got erysipelas again, the fourth time in eight months, and suddenly it got worse very quickly. He was admitted to the hospital, but luckily after much prayer from many people, and after intravenous antibiotics, he recovered.
We still had a little vacation with them.
We had planned to have two weeks of vacation with Davi and Dilma, and to go away for some days together and do fun things, but suddenly all those plans were jeopardized. Fortunately, Davi was allowed to come home after a week in hospital. We were so grateful with the nurses that came every day to our home, to help bandage his leg! So, we were busy all morning with his care, but in the afternoon and evening we could often go away for a while to do something special. How wonderful that we have a van with a lift for the wheelchair, what a blessing!
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| Going to Ikea, and building a new desk together! |
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| An afternoon in the shopping |
The online courses will start again.
The online courses we provide also continued in May and June, but in July and August there was a holiday break. We hope to start again in September and will run until mid-November.
The sisters are together in Brazil.
Johanneke and Jonathan are in Brazil with their daughters for a few weeks. They have given seminars and have helped Michele and Romeu several times with the Lamalma Children's Camps that they organize there in the weekends. Of course, we enjoyed the delightful photos and videos of our two daughters and their families, doing ministry together. We would have loved to be there as well!
We are looking forward to Michele, Romeu and their kids coming to the Netherlands on furlough at the end of November, to share about their beautiful work in churches, Bible studies, and schools, and testify to what God does in the lives of children from slums, when they spend a weekend at the Lamalma camp.
We want to thank you all for your faithful support in prayer, encouragement, visits, financial and in-kind gifts, e-mails and cards. Thank you for your love. We wish everyone God's rich blessing.
