on our way home!

Staying in Libreville for a couple of days let us unwind and relax. Arnie and Cheryl Sloving are the best hosts. Good food! Good laughs! Great tour guides!

Arnie and Cheryl Solvig

Vicky and Carrie at the beach

We did a little shopping, relaxed at the beach, and took a tour of the CMA missions school.

We also enjoyed a great Sunday service at the 1st Libreville CMA Church. The first service was about 3 hours long the music was wonderful! We were singled out because the white people weren't dancing! So we danced, well at least we tried to! This is the largest church with about 3000 people attending 2 services.

next stop, Paris

After a night flight to Paris, we found our hotel and took a 1/2 hour nap and then adventured into Paris.
Trains and monorails are the way to get around Paris, that was an experience all it's own. Let's just say after a few wrong trains we did get to where we needed to go!

A whirlwind tour of a few sites where spectacular! I want to go back! We were impressed with all the history and the churches!

Sacre Coeur

Notre Dame Cathedral

Arc de Triomphe

Eiffel Tower

special thanks!

As I post this last time for this trip, I know that we all want to say a "thank you" to the missionaries at Bongolo. This picture was taken at a Valentine\Going away party for us.

Becky Thompson, Carolyn Thorson, Saskia DePoel, Lisa Nickey, Pastor Serge Batouboko, Karen Fitch, Henri and Joyce Samoutu, Joanna, Keir, Luke and Sarah Thelander. (Not pictured) Dave Thompson, Deborah Walker

We are thanking God for these servants of God who are now our friends! God uses all of us and we would like to encourage those of you who are reading this blog to step out of your comfort zones and share your lives and talents to help further the 'Good News". It will bless you more than you could ever imagine!

for you!

Lastly, we want to thank you, family, friends and many others who lifted us to our Father in prayer. Your prayers are being answered, we are home safe and our lives are forever changed!

Praise God!

"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?

Matthew 16:24-26