2023 in Review

Some highlights from 2023! It was a good year, we all grew in many ways and saw the Lord work in our midst.

April

Spent time with couples... these are dear friends hoping to get married soon!

Had a wonderful Easter celebration with our church and guests at our home.

Held a reunion of the young couples' group from our old church in Bogota.

Angela was blessed during a missionary women's retreat in Cartagena.

May

  

A drain was dug to prevent our garage from flooding every time it rains.

Angela got to go on a one day retreat with local missionary women.

We adopted a new dog, Vela - her family moved to Spain. She had health problems until we figured out the problem, got surgery in August and all is well now!

Celebrated Cedric's birthday - along with two friends who share the same month.

Spent 24 hours with police and military presence on our mountainside, they were in search of a soldier hiding in the woods who'd gone AWOL after shooting a companion.

Our church women got together for a cooking class.

June 

Art class, completed a semester.

 

Valeria joined the youth group this month.

Angela learned how to cook Colombian beans properly - using a pig's foot!

Youth group, transporting everyone home on Satudays.

The women enjoyed a Sunday lunch out while the men played soccer (no pic).

 

July

 

We made a short trip to California and Cedric spent a week at Verdugo Pines Bible Camp.

Visited the California Science Museum.

In-n-out with friends.

Double date to the Getty Museum with good friends.

 

August

 

Angela's parents came to Colombia and we enjoyed every minute!

 

We hosted a lot of visitors who wanted to see them.

 And we visited the city of Bucaramanga with them.

And churches/friends there.

We got the keys to the house being purchased for our church to rent.

Saw some Colombian beauties!

September

 

Sad farewells to Nana and Papa at the airport.

Bill enjoyed a soccer game with the guys from church... but suffered for a month afterwards due to a kick in the shins.

Bogota outing with youth group to a science museum.

October

 

Andy spent the month with us while he worked on the paperwork and payments for the new house.

The mayor permitted Bible readings in the main plaza for the whole month. Churches took turns, ours read on 6 different days.

Spent the month wondering when the calves would be born. (Not our cows, belong to a neighbor but grazed in front of our house.)

Hosted another couples meeting - always a need among our families.

Ongoing homeschooling.

November

 

Our annual church - 3 other small churches joined us.

 

 Family Church's first baptism.

The calves finally started arriving.

Bill's dad visited for a few days.

We enjoyed a lovely thanksgiving celebration with dear friends.

 

December

 

 We started the month off with a wedding.

Which Bill missed out on due to a quick visit to Florida for a family reunion. (These are his sisters.)

Our church moved into the new house, Bill supervised things getting fixed and painted.

Our first Sunday in the new place. Still cramped, but much better than the last house.

We had lots of extra church gatherings during the month of December. Evenings together reading the Christmas story.

The youth group learned how to make Buñuelos, a cheesy fried bread.

We had a potluck on the 24th.
 

And a BBQ at our house on the 31st.

Along with a thanksgiving service.

 Bill enjoyed a quiet birthday this year.

(We also had a very quiet Christmas, Cedric got food poisoning so we enjoyed our Christmas dinner on the 26th! Forgot to take pictures!)