This is from Roy, who has blog-napped this space for the day.  For those of you still following our blog, we are sorry for the lapse in writing.  You see, we have had a few major events in our lives since July 2016.  

Here was our major event:

Isn't she adorable?  After 28 hours of labor (maybe harder for me I realized it would be, I'm glad for the modern advances of medicine that took some of Denise's pain away), we celebrated our Daughter Abby being born!   She was born September 23, 2016 at 1:08 am.

Meet our family, Christmas 2017:

And now we are embarking on an incredible journey as missionaries with CVM back to Africa to work with the Fulani in Central African Republic.  Many of the older blog posts tell a more of the story, and we will promise to add more to our story as we experience it.  So please follow along and encourage your friends and family to keep in touch with us.

We leave this Saturday March 17 to begin our cultural training sessions for 4 weeks in western NC.  On April 14 we will venture to Seattle to visit with our supervisors and other co-workers who support us here while we serve as field workers.  And we will be in France for 12 months learning French starting April 30.  So lots of moving parts these next few weeks and months.  Continue to pray for us for healthy adjustments (physically and emotionally) and pray that our heads and hearts will be opened and receptive to all that we are learning.