30 September 2011
It is a blustery, rainy day and we are in a “cottage” surrounded by a forest on the shore of Lake Huron in Canada. Actually, the cottage is a mansion with five bedrooms, three bathrooms and a huge A-frame living area. Just beautiful. The perfect place to rest and refresh ourselves.
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| at the "Cottage" on the Bruce Peninsula, ON, Canada |
It is already a month since our last blog update and we are miles away from Mozambique, resting and regaining energy as we prepare for our home assignment in Canada and the U.S. We left Mozambique on the 25th of September with two bags and four carry-on bags. We had the best trip ever with all our flights on time and connections smooth. Our luggage arrived safely and the customs agents didn’t blink an eye at our fully stamped passports. Susan’s father was at the airport to pick us up and after one night at his place, we were on our way north to spend five days at the cottage for some R & R.
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| the completed bathroom block at CAM school |
Now backing up a bit, we had an incredibly busy September. Every day we were able to see more and more completed at the new CAM and the students and teachers settling in. The transportation to the school changed a bit and now we have two mini-busses and one large bus that pick up the students and teachers and bring them to school and take them home.
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| CAM Dedication: flag presentation by CAM students |
A highlight at CAM a week before we left was the 15th year anniversary and dedication of CAM. We were privileged to have Claude and Marilynn Meyers, the founders of CAM, join us as the special guests and speaker for the day. What a blessing to hear the history of CAM and how God provided in miraculous ways right from the beginning when CAM was just a dream. Now CAM has gone through another amazing event of moving to a new location. God blessed us with Melvin Kelly who was our construction engineer and his wonderful crew of Mozambican workers who worked to finish the school in record time. Teachers, students, and all the construction crew worked so hard to get everything ready for school to open. We know God has great plans for CAM and for the families it is touching and will touch in the future.
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| L/R: Melvin Kelly, Gary & Diane Gray, Larry, Marilynn and Claude Meyers |
We continued to work alongside of Gary and Diane Gray, preparing them for our departure. We are so thankful to the Lord for their willingness to take our spots and be a part of the OMS team in Mozambique. We were able to leave knowing that things would be in good hands.
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| Packing and having to say goodbye to Felix |
It was good to finally get things organized in our own house. We moved the third week in July, but had boxes that still needed to be unpacked in September. Slowly but surely we were able to get most everything unpacked or stored in one of the rooms in our house. We even got some things hung on the walls too. Just as we were getting settled in our house, we then had to get things packed to take to the States. What to take, what to give away and what to leave behind was filling our minds as we packed to leave.
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| OMS team farewell dinner for us |
We look forward to our time in the U.S. and Canada. We are getting our schedule organized and so far we will be in Canada until October 12th when we head to OMS headquarters in Indiana. We have meetings and physicals scheduled in the first week. The weekend of October 21st – 23rd we will be a part of the mission’s conference at World Gospel Church. We fly to Washington State on the 25th and will spend the next week settling in our home in Sequim and finding a car.
We are working on our speaking schedule and when we have things firmed up we will post the dates on our blog. Thanks for your prayers. We hope to see as many of you as possible. Our email will remain the same so you can contact us through that.
God bless,
Larry & Susan
