Wedding Bells?

Our nephew and niece renewed their vows on their tenth wedding anniversary and Brian officiated over the ceremony. It was so nice, laid back, and beautiful!

Congratulations Gareth and Kristen!

More Wallaces

Back From Porta Prince

Brian has returned from a healthcare trip to Haiti.

The group visited 7 orphanages, assessed and treated around 600 kids, installed about 300 mosquito nets and distributed about 300 more, and cleaned & covered over 300 mattresses. There were some horror stories of the condition of some of these places, but thanks to the efforts of the team they were able to help these little ones have a cleaner, debugged living space.

Another Road Trip

Yep...another road trip, but this one we did together and Norm Curington (missionary of DR) joined us.

Our route took us to Virginia to visit with the Fair Fax congregation and meet with the mission board. We were graciously hosted by friends and champions of the DR ministry, Mark and Cassey Gibson. They arranged several opportunities for us to be able to catchup with members who've visited and teamed up with the work in the DR during the summer and Magi trips. Even a tour of the monuments in DC were visited.

From there we wound our way (literally....Brian reeeeaaaly wanted to travel along the Blue Ridge Mountain and we were glad we relented because it was truly beautiful) to Tennessee to meet with the Highland View elders and mission board in Oak Ridge.
It was a great trip! Loved traveling with Norm again (have done it many times before in other countries) and being able to see all the different folk that have been such a blessing to us and the DR work.

My Man's Home

I've got my man back home again!

He's returned from a 17 day trip to the DR and Haiti. Checking on the on going projects and missionaries in the DR and then crossing over the border into Haiti to check on the Manna property in order to make a list of what needs there are to get the camp up and ready for initiating groups back into the country.

The plan is to have several come into to help with the Magi distribution in December and then a couple of spring break groups followed by some summer groups. It's truly amazing to see the timing of all this.

While there the school registration was taking place and he was able to see quite a few of the parents of the attending students. He was very pleased with how things were going, and the condition of the property.