Hello, Friends, This blog is quite overdue: five months! A lot has happened since we got appointed as missionaries to Cote d'Ivoire. In July, we took a trip to Colorado with our South Meridian Youth for the International Youth Convention. On our return from Colorado we were able to visit a few campmeetings and share our story with people at the camps. First stop was at the Yellow Creek Lake campmeeting during the last weekend of July. The speaker for the camp was Dr. James Lewis. We also volunteered to help out with youth activities along side Mike Snyder, Crystal Snyder, Time and Kit Bush. We had a tractor ride in the evening; it was a gorgeous night sky out in the country. We also had the opportunity to share at the Akron Church of God. Bob had to head back to work on Monday, but Jenny headed straight over to Ohio for the Payne, Ohio camp meeting. In early August, we went to St Louis, Michigan campmeeting and spent Saturday afternoon sharing with the young adult class about missions and on Sunday we were introduced during the service.
Jenny was invited by the CWC ladies to West Frankfort, IL for the Southern Illinois campmeeting and had a wonderful experience sharing and making new friends.
In mid-August Jenny went back to work and the new school year got off to a good, but busy start.
In the the fall, we had a few opportunities to build new partnerships with some churches here in the Midwest. First, we visited Ithaca Church of God in Michigan in October. We had a wonderful time with the pastor; our host Dee and the congregation were awesome. The first evening, we shared our stories with a group of friends around the camp fire, followed by some good chili. On Sunday, we were given the opportunity to share in Sunday school and in the service, Jenny delivered a great sermon about making disciples "as we are going." After the service we enjoyed a delicious potluck dinner with the congregation.
Two weekends later, we were at Tillman Road Church of God in Fort Wayne, Indiana. As we were driving on Sunday morning trying to find the church, we saw our names on the church signboard out front in bold letters: "Welcome Bobby and Jenny Mihsill." The sign had just made our morning even wonderful, knowing that the Church was welcoming us so warmly!and we will be building newer relationships. We both shared during the Sunday School hour and during the morning service. This was followed with lunch, good conversations with beautiful people.
Seven days later, we joined the Fairmont Church of God for an African night dinner. We had googled map the directions to the church and when we arrived at the location, there was no church! We drove in circles looking for the church and later called the church . What had happened was, there was the same exact street name at a town nearby and that is where the map took us. We had spent driving 45 minutes more that we should have, but we did finally get to the church. It was a great evening, with African food that was prepared, African games, stories and some African Trivia. We got to meet some wonderful people who have hearts for Africa and we enjoyed seeing Sherman and Kay Critser at the dinner!
A week later we traveled to West Frankfort, Illinois for their Faith Promise Sunday. On the drive there, a bonus was the one hour time gain and the beautiful sunset. We had a wonderful service on Sunday morning with Bob preaching and met with some very welcoming people. The fellowship continued with a great Thanksgiving lunch!
Our travels have slowed down a bit near the holidays, but we'll be up and on the road again come January!
