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Weekend News and Updates

We've been on the road for the last five days, so here's what we've been up to:

The Association of Christian Communicators in Paraguay had their annual retreat in Tres Palmas and we had a great time of fellowship, networking and recreation with the other legal Christian radios and TV stations in the nation, 150 total participants! Here's a picture of some of the terrific staff at Alternativa: We got there and realized we forgot our tent poles, so here's what our improvised tent looked like; we were the brunt of many jokes. Thankfully it didn't rain!
We also had the privilege of finishing the distribution of the funds for 9 motorcycles and getting to know ministries all over the country, so in the next month, we'll be highlighting different motorcycle recipients and their work.

We got our license plate for our new car, which amazingly only took a month; last time it took us almost three years! We have decided to name our car: the White Fish, that's Timmy's name for our car.
We returned to find that our chicks are doing great and have tripled in size, only one is now in chicken heaven. We are working on building their permanent chicken house this week, so should be another great learning experience.

Thank you to everyone who has written us or has prayed for us and our car situation. We have contacted a lawyer and she will go with Norberto either today or tomorrow to (hopefully) retrieve our vehicle. Please pray that we can peaceably get our car back with no fights or hassles.
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  1. StonefoxOctober 6, 2009 at 4:55 AM

    I'm a missionary in East Asia and have an opportunity at my place you may want to check out. Heidi

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  2. Rebecca Conduff AguirreOctober 6, 2009 at 10:10 AM

    Had to laugh at your tent...oops! lol So happy with you also that it didn't rain!!!! Wow, one month for your license plate does sound pretty amazing! Took a while for us in Venezuela, too, seems to be an unpredictable process, eh? :) Hope the deal with your other car is resolved soon...

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