Traveling

We had the opportunity to present 'Standing In The Gap' Wednesday evening at Lakewood Baptist Church, Pastor Henry Stiller in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. It was wonderful to reconnect and we enjoyed our fellowship time.  From there we are traveling to Racine, Wisconsin to spend a few days with friends before we travel to Indiana then on to Illinois and home for our missions conference at Bible Baptist Temple.

 

Thank you Pastor Jack Gwinn for allowing us

 to present our next trip to Nauru while we are 

 'Standinging In The Gap' for missionaries

Adam and Christie McGeorge. 

Still Waters Baptist Church is a gracious and loving group 

and they made us feel right at home.

We also want to thank you for

the fellowship and meal

after the service.

The Blessings of God!

We are truly blessed ...

the Lord has provided us with a vehicle.

We will be on the furlough trail

for 5 months before we head to Nauru.

Thank you Bible Baptist Temple

for being such a blessing to us.

We are traveling in MO, TN and GA.

Our grandchildren discovered

a DVD player in the

van and that is 'cool'.

Sunday morning we will

be with Pastor Jack Gwinn

and Still Waters Baptist Church.

A little late!

Even though we have been home a week I wanted to post these...

Thank you for those who prayed regarding our trip home. No fog

issues until we reached Philadelphia and where we were

delayed 2 1/2 hours. Still we made it safely back to St. Joseph.

Nearly ready to go home!

At the Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam.

Thanks to all the people in the church in

Velp for their wonderful hospitality.

The blessing was ours!

Leaving Amsterdam!

In the air and headed 'home'...

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We have been home a week and are

going 'on the road' on Saturday to

raise support for our next stop --- Nauru!

Headed to Lincoln and Seward, Nebraska!

Good bye...

FAREWELL

"Finally, brethren, farewell,..." 2 Corinthian 13:11

We want to thank the people of

"Bijbel Baptiten Gemeente" in Velp the Netherlands.

They are a loving and giving group of church folk.

We will mis them BUT "Standing In The Gap" is

just that...we are there for only a short time

and we say good-bye!

We look forward to spending time

with you again, if not here than

in eternity!

All the ladies!

The teen girls and children.

Please pray for us on Tuesday, we leave the house

at 6:30 am.  Fog will be an issue so we ask

that you pray for safety for us and those

traveling our direction.

We fly out of Schiphol in Amsterdam

at 12:35 and arrive in KC at 10:59 pm!

Kamp Westerbork

Leo and Richard patiently waiting for the ladies!

We stopped and had lunch before we headed to

Kamp Westerbork.

Kamp Westerbork was a concentration

camp in the Netherlands during WW II.

The Nazi occupying forces deported

more than 100,000 Jews via this transit camp.

The camp was originally built in 1939 by the

Dutch government as a Central Refugee Camp

for Jews fleeing Germany.

In 1942, it became a transit camp headed

by the SS.  From July of that year,

the Dutch Jews, German refugees,

245 Sinti and Roma and dozens of resistance

fighters were deported from this

'hell's gate' to death camps such as

Auschwitz and Sobibor.

A total of 93 transports left the camp,

and only 5,000 of those deported

returned alive.

The National Westerbork Memorial symbolises

the destruction.  And the former

roll-call site, the 102,000 stones have been placed.

A stone for EVERY murdered man,

woman and child.

(a camp within the camp)

One of the victims was Anne Frank. Her father Otto

was among the few survivors. They were sent

to Kamp Westerbork after the arrest in their

secret hiding in Amsterdam. In the camp,

they were sent to the punishment blocks where

they were to stay for several weeks. In

these punishment blocks, the Nazi's detained not only

people who had been arrested while in hiding,

but also camp prisoners who were being punished.

Their fate was to be put on punishment transport

as soon as possible.

On 3 September 1944, one of the last trains left

Kamp Westerbrok. Anne Frank was among

the 1,019 deportees on that train, as

were her sister Margot, her parents, Otto and

Edith Frank, and the others wo had been

hiding with them.

(original tracks)

The signs at Westerbork remind us of the destinations

of the trains that left Westerbork: Auschwitz,

Sobibor, Bergen-Belsen, Theresienstadt, and

Mauthausen.

In the heart of Kamp Westerbork, visitors

will find the Jerusalem Stone, unveiled

by the President of Israel.

The camp was demolished in 1970 - only memorials

stand today along with a musuem.

"Let us never forget!"

Many Cultures!

Please pray for the church here

in Arnhem/Velp as they

reach out to those

in the community of many

different cultural

backgrounds!