A Week in Liebenzell USA Land

We spent a delightful week in Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey at the Liebenzell Mission USA Missionary Conference. It was great seeing our neighbor Melissa Heck again and other Guam friends (Steve Stinnette in background)!

Here is a picture of all of the Liebenzell USA missionaries who participated in the conference.

These are our colleagues from Pacific Islands Bible College and one of our students, Happiness Lodge, front row, right side. He completed an internship during his summer in the USA!

These are our dear friends who work with Liebenzell Mission in Ecuador. I can't tell you how good it was for us to reconnect with them, including the Sick family at the right hand side. They previously worked in Yap, Micronesia, and will be heading to Ecuador in early October. Please pray for their adjustment to a new field.

Ned's parents attended Mission Day on Saturday, June 23. His beautiful Mom poses with beautiful Marisol, two very special ladies!

This time we missionaries received a special treat, a three-hour tour of Manhattan on the Circle Line Cruise (no "Gilligan's Island" jokes please!). Marisol, Joel and Amelia had never been to New York before and enjoyed seeing the Statue of Liberty and the rest of the sites.

Marisol enjoys a free moment with Becky Williams, who works with her family in Lita, Ecuador. Currently the Williamses are in Virginia on home assignment.

We spent time with John and Margaret Thompson at the bonfire on Wednesday night of the conference. The Thompson previously served as Liebenzell missionaries and now serve at the headquarters in New Jersey. John is a graduate of Houghton College and likes to trade Houghton stories with Ned, also a Houghton graduate.

Here Amelia meets a horse for the first time. She did not want to "saddle up." She felt safer in Melissa's arms.

The Liebenzell USA children enjoy a quiet afternoon watching "Madegascar."

We were so blessed to have Robertson McQuillken was our speaker for the conference. A former missionary to Japan as well as president of Columbia International University in South Carolina, Dr. McQuillken related his experiences on the mission field as well as leaving the presidency of Columbia to care for his wife Muriel who suffered with Alzheimer's Disease.

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