Oregon

I am just back from our weekend in Oregon. Joyce stayed up in Redding CA to celebrate her sister Judy's birthday and will be back down here on Friday. We drove up to Medford Oregon on Saturday. I always enjoy the drive because of the great view of Mount Shasta for much of it. We stayed with Garland and Roberta Shinn, old friends of Joyce's family. It was interesting to hear stories about Joyce's childhood from when her parents and the Shinn's operated a Christian camp. It seems like she was a champion on stilts. We had a great time talking about PIBC and the work in Micronesia with the people of Ashland Bible Church, pastored by Nate Shinn (see the group in the picture above). We were able to speak at the morning service, Sunday school, afternoon picnic and Monday night Bible study.

We also got to meet with Dave Booye, pastor of Rogue Valley Fellowship in Medford, and his wife Joy for lunch. Dave has been a friend since our junior high years. RVF has been faithfully supporting our ministry since 1992. We talked for about 4 hours getting caught up on each others' lives and ministries. I am hoping to get back up there in November to speak in their service. Then the next day we got have breakfast with our old friend Jim Cunningham. The Cunninghams began supporting us when we first went out to Palau in 1984. We enjoyed the good fellowship and the giant cinnamon rolls (pictured with Jim).

We then spent Monday night in Redding with Joyce's sister Judy and her family. We will be heading over to Hessel church for this weekend. If you are in that area (just north of San Francisco) Sunday we'd love to see you there.