Sunday night, 9 March...Good evening all our friends, readers, curiosity readers, partners, and everyone in between....

God has used several of you to encourage us and to pray for us.  Some in person, some by regular e-mail, and some on blog, like our sweet sister Kass here.   (By the way, Kass, we're praying that God set fire under whatever necessary to get you guys on the mission field!)

We're about wrapping up our study here at the Center for International Training, and it has been a hard but insightful four weeks.  We just finisher a major paper on Guatemala, with a focus on the Maya influence.  If anyone would like a copy, let me know and I'll e-mail it to you.  The instructors here are as concerned with our spiritual developement as our cultural education and mission work.  

Last week we went to a small country church close to here, and really enjoyed the fellowship.  They asked us to come back last Wednesday to do the service, and it was a real joy.  

This Tuesday, 11 March, we leave here by 10:00 and drive to Greenville, where Aaron and Ruth check in to bring our first grandbaby, Peter Niel, into the world!  (Currently he is breech, and unless God turns him, it will be c-section city.)  I.m suggesting that their next son be named Peter also, that is, so they'll have a First and Second Peter.   We'll post pictures as soon as we can, so stay tuned.