We
spent a few days with the Hampton Road Church of Christ in Texarkana as we left
Lewisville. I spoke to the ladies Bible
class last Wednesday morning and got to meet some wonderful women. We enjoyed seeing Dr. & Mrs. A. D. Smith
again but did not know they had been involved in a very bad wreck and have had
a long time recovering from their injuries.
We
have had a wonderful weekend at Harding University to visit people at the
College Church of Christ. We have friends
here and made many more on this trip.
We attended several classes, went out to eat at various places and had
fun with Lolita and Ed Higginbotham, as well as others. It will be a little sad to leave tomorrow.
The
weather has been cold again. We could
not believe that after the heavy rain storms, the temperature dipped down to
freezing again. It is slowly warming up
again.
We
leave Searcy, AR on Thursday, April 17th and drive to Clear Creek
Park on Sardis Lake near Oxford, MS (my hometown). Ron will conduct a leadership workshop for
Chinese students at Ole Miss Friday night and all day on Saturday. I hope to see some of my nieces and nephews
but their schedule will be tight this weekend as will ours. It isn’t the same going back home now. My mother died in 1983. I’ve been back since then but never drove by
her house again. I want to remember it
with her in it, not changed with others there now. I’m sure it would not look the same after all
these years as they have probably updated the house and yard. Billy, my older brother passed away many
years ago and Leon, my younger brother passed away three years ago this
July. I have no aunts or uncles left so
my family is getting smaller.
We
will go to Red Boiling Springs, TN after we leave Oxford. We will probably be in that area for a
couple of weeks. I hope it will be warm
by the first of May while we are there.
Our health is good. We are doing
fine as we begin our journey back east to give our yearly report to those
supporting our work in China.
Everywhere
we go, we meet people sponsoring some of the children and they often tell us
they pray for us and the work. We are
very grateful for everyone’s interest in our work and for their love for us and
the children we support. With this crazy
world we live in, we know there are many faithful, good people in the U.S.
