Thank you, DRIME!

These past few days, Gary and I have been super blessed to be able to host Lillian's DRIME team in our home (all nine of them!). From this strategic location, the DRIME-ers were able to spend two days doing ministry in San Francisco, as well as teach a drama workshop for the youth at our church here in Concord.

They were the first official houseguests in our home, and I have to say, now that they're gone, the house just feels waaaay too empty without them. Something about a full house that just makes it feel more like a home... leaders chatting in the corner, boys on the internet in the back, half the girls engaged in a full blown Scrabble war, while the other half learn to play fetch by Billy's rules. Their time here was fantastic, and ended way too soon.

I was able to get a few pictures of the team, mostly of them interacting with our youth at the drama workshop. Check 'em out:

The Canadians are coming!

I’m so stinkin’ excited… I get to see Lillian on Monday! Eeeekk!!!

We met Lillian in Nairobi, Kenya, while we were on the world race, and she was there as a missionary with a Canadian drama evangelism team called DRIME. Their team spent about 9 months in Kenya, working with local Christians to develop a Kenya DRIME base there in Nairobi. It turns out that that they were staying in the AIM base, where the red & brown teams worked the entire month, so they were able to welcome us and help us adapt to Kenyan life. Our teams all hit it off, and we really united as friends during that time.

Anyways, Lillian (and new team) are coming to California tomorrow, to lead drama workshops, and to do street evangelism, and along with some time in San Diego, they are coming up here to the bay area for a few days! So… they’re going to crash out at our place, do some ministry in San Francisco, and spend an evening training our high school missions team to do dramas we can use on our trip to New Orleans!

After a year living in other people’s homes, I am SO excited to return the favor and host a missions team here! It will be great to connect with Lillian again, and share what God has been doing in our lives since September. And, it’s really cool that our students can learn from such a talented and experienced team. Woo hoo!

(Miss you Mark & Shelley)