Blogs from Martin, Georgia, United States, North America

(This was written April 24, but isn't being posted until May 3rd because we've been without laptop access until now. Sorry about worrying you....Vicki) (Leaving Shepherd’s Hill Farm) The comment has been made to me that I haven’t mentioned much about the work we do with RVICS. We are maintenance missionaries, rather than evangelizing missionaries~~we do some of the physical work to leave time for the ministries’ we’re working for to do the preaching and teaching. This project had four couples; we were scheduled to have six, but John got hurt in Florida, so he and Lola couldn’t make it (he’s doing well, and headed home to West Virginia in a couple weeks) and Dave and Wanda stayed behind to help them. Here’s what the men accomplished in four weeks: fixed rain leak in roof ... read more

(Shepherd’s Hill Farm) One thing I know for sure: Georgia’s weather isn’t as pleasant as Florida’s! This is more like spring, as we know spring, although it’s occurring in April rather than the beginning of June! But we get a couple days of sunshine, and then more days of rain. We spent two hours in a storm shelter (aka: the girls shower room) Friday night because of tornados in the area. At least one twister touched down three and a half miles from here, and lifted (according to the broken trees in its path) less than a mile from the camp. Many trees were down, and facing all different directions; one tree had the top half of it twisted off. We didn’t see a lot of structural damage, thankfully. And now for our geography lesson! Georgia ... read more