This past weekend we were at Pinewood PCA's missions conference, Love the World Tour. It was an immense encouragement to once again see so many familiar faces and meet new ones. We enjoyed a packed weekend with these fine folks...and hearing good teaching from God's Word by Pastor Nic Batzig who is a church planting pastor in Richmond Hill, GA. (He is pictured at left with his wife Anna and Mrs. Tommy Parks (RUF at UNF).
We enjoyed a delicious meal Friday night where church members brought ethnic dishes from Thailand, Mexico, Ukraine, Indonesia as well as America! It was hard to choose what to eat because there was so much good food available! Pictured at left with Paul is Pastor of Pinewood, JD Funyak along with Kelly Loomis who traveled from Richmond Hill with Pastor Batzig (and who is a former member of Pinewood and a long time friend).
Pictured lastly is part of our fabulous Thailand Mission Impact Team. Eva Borko with two of her children pictured with the elephant they made for our display. Isn't it great!? Just want to share this great idea with all of you out there. Pinewood has decided to encourage it's members to sign up for Mission Impact Teams according to where they have missionaries. So, as people came through and learned about the different missionaries and their fields, they choose which area they'd like to pray for and signed up to receive prayer updates, info about the missionaries from that respective field. I think this is a great idea! As you can see next to the elephant we were also selling Napada Bags...and sold quite a few, too!
It was a great weekend. Thank you to Eva and her team of people who helped make the weekend so easy for us. Thank you Pinewood for your continued support and prayers and love for our family and for the Thai people.
