Tampa, FL (Feb 3-8)

Before going across the state from Ft. Pierce to Tampa, we stopped at the Atlantic Ocean.

The teens at Tampa were so much fun to be with! By Wednesday all the teens from the Christian school had bought their team t-shirt and they were really into the competition! We had a great turn out of 90 teens the first night with more than half being from the community! And we had a huge blessing of seeing 25 people get saved all in Wednesday night! It was an amazing first night of rallies!

By the end of the week there were 49 salvations consisting of teens and even a few adults! Praise the Lord for the work He has done!!

Taylors, SC (Feb 9-16)

Well, this was a bit of a different week for us. First of all, this week we did not have a Christian school scheduled so it was a week “off” for us. However :) a week “off” does not mean that we do nothing. We still had plenty of things to do.

Glenn had hurt one of his fingers back in November and it actually got worse as the weeks went on. So, he took this week to go back home and see the doctor about doing corrective surgery. And yes, he needs surgery. He is scheduled to have surgery Monday, February 18. This means he will need to stay home for a few weeks of recovery and a post-op doctor visit in March. We are all looking forward to being back together for the conference in Menomonee Falls, WI February 25-28, though! It will be nice to see Philip and Josh again as well!

Annaleese holding William and Janna holding Kate

So back to this past week...on Monday Paul brought into our classroom a little lost puppy!! We loved her right away and were thrilled with our distraction from school work! :) And then, Paul brought in a second puppy!! We were elated!! School almost went completely out the window!! We named the girl Kate and the boy William. We LOVED them!! The Van Gelderen girls took them everywhere throughout the day (and tried to do school work at the same time!) and Paul and Nathan even took them outside to “help” them wash the trailer!! Let’s face it :) we all loved these little puppies!! They were such good puppies, too! William could already sit on command (he did it several times) and Kate was “paper trained” in a day! We tried not to get our hopes up and figured that they had owners...somewhere. We called the humane society, the pound, and the police office to see if anyone was missing 2 puppies, but nobody seemed to be missing them. That night at Fellowship Baptist (the church we were staying at) there was a Bible Club. We tried to find a new owner for the puppies, but nobody could take them. So, we gave the puppies a bath and put them back in a rubbermaid for the night. They were so good all night long!!

William...isn't he adorable?!?

On Tuesday we called to have the humane society/pound come pick them up around 1:30. We played with lil Kate and William throughout the morning and took about a hundred pictures!! We found out by Friday that both puppies had been adopted, but the puppies were separated. We had hoped that they could have stayed together...well...we were hoping that we could have kept them...but that didn't happen, either.