Rain, rain, go away!

It has been nothing but cloudy and/or rainy ever since we returned from Europe. I'm pretty sure this has been a contributing factor, along with other aforementioned incidents, to my lack of ability to recover from that melancholy, overtired, jet-lagged feeling. Of course, the Cote d'Or from MR is helping tremendously - thanks, good French friend!;-)

Speaking of Europe, we received an email today from one of the CA team members who was at conference trying to make a connection. At first, he was slightly discouraged because his past connections were not panning out. He would love to serve in Europe on a CA team and we knew this, so it was exciting for us that he was able to make a few solid connections. He wrote us saying he's received 4 invites from teams all over Europe.

After reading this, T said, "I want to be invited to go to Europe." To which I replied, "T, had you shown even the slightest inclination towards wanting to go to Europe to serve, I'm sure you would have had PLENTY of invites!" I mean really. If you are going to take your whole family on a missions trip serving families that serve on the mission field, don't you think they'd invite you if you were interested? OK, maybe I scared them all away, but at least a few could have overlooked even the scariest of women like me! :-)

We have talked in the past about serving on the mission field, but for whatever reason God has been directing us toward these party-hearty, suburban teens who need a bigger purpose in life. We both feel like the connections they made with the kids on this trip and their parents probably had the most impact on our kids feeling like it was possible for them to go. American families, living in groups/teams with children, young adults, students.... have many of them asking questions about what we are doing here. Very insightful for all of us.

Now the key here is finding a place in Europe, on a beach, plenty of sun and lots of lemonade. Can it be done?