Home Again

We left Colorado Springs June 18th beginning our journey home. We arrived in Russell, Kansas about 3:30 on Sunday got set-up in time to grab supper at a local restaurant. It was all you could eat and we did. The next morning we headed to Oklahoma City where we spent two nights at Tinker AFB Fam Camp. The day we arrived the base was having an air show and Dennis was in hog heaven. Once the airconditioner was plugged in he was reaching for the camera. The Thunderbirds were flying and he got some great pictures. Finally, we headed for Tennessee where we pulled into the driveway about 4:30 in the afternoon on Thursday the 24th.

Now that we're home we have appointments everyday except a few. One appointment was to finish collecting the books for the children in St. Kitts from all those who were helping with the collecting while we were away. Together, we collected between 1,600 and 1,700 books. How awesome is that!

The following day Dennis and I loaded the books in the truck and headed to Nashville where we found a shipping company who would ship the books to St. Kitts. Dennis, Lydia, and I packed the books in two jumbo barrels for shipping. The man at the shippping company had to sit on top of the barrels to close them because they were so full the tops had to mashed down to close them. The books will arrive in St. Kitts about the end of July where the principal of Dieppe Bay Primary School will receive them. When I spoke with her she was so excited to find out that books were coming that she kept saying tell everyone thank you, tell them thank you, please tell everyone thank you. So, if you were one of the people that donated books or helped collect books, or donated money to help with the shipping please know that these children are going to be blessed by your gifts and those in charge of the children are more grateful than you know. Thank you for being a vessel for God's use. I will let you know as soon as the books have arrive. I thank you too.

I am hoping to send a barrel of various school supplies to the school this fall. A company has donated a large box of pens and pencils but they will still need paper, spiral notebooks, glue, colored pencils, crayons, etc. Walmart should have a sale soon on school supplies so I'm hoping to buy several things then. If anyone wants to add to the barrell let me know I will be glad to come by and pick-up your gifts.

Dennis and I are enjoying our journey's but are happy to be home for a short stay. I hope to see as many of you as possible in the next couple of weeks.

At home with the Snow's.