The Harris household has been a bit quieter over the last few weeks. Chelsie spent a week in the village of Tyonek last week, and Cassie is about half way through her 5 weeks in Naknek, working at the Christian radio Station KAKN, which broadcasts the Gospel to villages in the Bristol Bay region.
The longest day of the year came and went without much fanfare. My mother, visiting from Georgia, went out a night or two before and took a picture in the front yard without a flash after midnight. She was pretty impressed! Actually, there's not much night at all. It goes from light to dusk, dusk to dawn, dawn to light. No night. Of course, now things will be starting back the other way! Ouch! We need to enjoy it while we have it.
What is significant about 260,000 miles? Well, that's what you get if you add the odometer readings on both our vehicles together. One has about 150,000 and the other about 110,000. I've even got used to the bungee cord (Don't ask). But for the long trips to Anchorage, it's getting just a bit more of an experience than I want it to be! Please pray that the Lord will supply us a dependable vehicle.
I have felt more like a computer beta tester recently than a missionary. Here at ABM, we share information back and forth between staff in a way that allows us all to stay mobile. It's great when it works. It's a mess when we need to change it. But it's been a nice way to keep focused in the midst of some difficult family times.
Our kids are growing up, and we just aren't always seeing them make decisions we hope they would make. But there are victories, too. Thanks be to God!
Kris and won't be out much in July. I will be going sheep hunting in mid August and then we will be down in the villages of Kodiak Island helping some friends of ours there, serving in missions there among the people of Kodiak. Alan and Linda, keep on keeping on! We love you!
But Kris and I will be providing allot of behind the scenes support for other ABM activities. We have a team coming up from Mexico to take the Gospel message to Spanish speaking people in the canneries on the chain, and a team returning from Manitowoc Wisconsin for the third year in a row to work in Egigik and Levelock. Time to put the revolving door on the front of our house and add a leaf or two to the table!
Thanks for taking the time to read our updates and keep us in your prayers. Without your partnership, we would be burnt out, shriveled up, and beaten down. A potion of Psalm 139 says something like "Where can I go from Your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I make my bed in the deaths, you are there. If I settle on the far side of the sea, if I rise on the wings of the dawn - - even there your hand will hand me, your right hand will hold me fast."
Well I see God's upholding hand in the e-mails we receive from you. the telephone conversations, the prayers offered on our behalf, and the financial partnership you have with us.
Thanks!
Gary
