Michigan Trip Last week

We had such an encouraging time in Michigan! We were able to keep a "Lazaros Marathon" Schedule! We had great opportunities to share with many groups what we are doing @ MMS, and how things are going. It was great to re-connect with many of our friends and family. It was so good hanging out with all of you!

Last Thursday and Friday the Kodiak airplane was here at MMS for a visit. The hangar was buzzing with visitors and press. I (Scott)had the wonderful opportunity to go up in the Kodiak and actually log time flying it. The Kodiak is a single engine Turbo Prop airplane that was disigned with Missions in mind. The Kodiak will be a replacement to many aging aircraft in missions, and an answer to the great expense and shortage of Avgas around the world. Check out their site.
http://www.questaircraft.com/

Check out the pictures on our picture site of the Kodiak. Click on our pictures link at the side.


I had the wonderful opportunity to spend the weekend at "Camp Wagner" with a group of young men who are in a "Way of the Wild Heart" mentor group. Josh Adelsberger and I led the campout. The boys had a great time swimming, and eating hot dogs. We all went exploring through the woods and had opportunities to talk about our faith and encourage each other.

Tomorrow I will be starting with a new team leader. Mike Dunkley. I have been with Ian Hengst for the last seven months. I have grown under Ians leadership.

In Michigan

We are in the middle of our time here in Michigan. We are having a blast seeing lots of old friends and meeting some new ones. It is great catching up with friends and family. There has been a lot of new building going on here too. Things are starting to look different from when we left 9 1/2 months ago.

The weather has been in the 90's and is very hot. We have been blessed to be able to swim often at friend's pools and lakes. God is good. :-)

We appreciate your prayer for traveling mercies and our times of connecting with friends. God bless you all.

Lela and boyz~

Sunny Thursday

What a beautiful day here in West Lafayette, OH. The sun is shinning so brightly. Scott had his T.E. (Technical Evaluation) this week and it went really well. He was very excited with the outcome. God is so good!!

Today we are going to Berlin (about 45 minutes north) to our dentist. Matthew is having his 2nd crown put on. His first one feel off after about 2 years and so we are hoping that this one last for years to come. He is such a trooper about it all. It is his front top tooth. I feel so bad, he is so young to be dealing with this. This all happened in a snow sledding accident a couple of years ago. He ran into our swing set in our back yard in MI. It wasn't a pretty sight but he did very well.

Matthew has a friend visiting with us this week. Justin, from MI, came to hang out with him. We are taking him back home this weekend as we are going to MI for a week of deputation. Please pray for our travels and our meeting together with old and new friends. It will be fun to see familiar faces and to meet new ones. Scott and I both have family reunions while we are there so we will be blessed to see many family members as well.

Everyone else is doing well. We are just packing and getting things ready for the trip.

God bless you all,
Lela and boyz~

A beautiful Weekend!

Wow, God is so amazing! He has created the most beautiful weekend. Friday, July 4th started out very rainy, but then cleared up and occasionally drizzled here and there. We spent the day with some friends from church at their private lake/camp on their home property. It was so much fun. The entire family had a blast. Then Saturday, July 5th we had a BBQ and invited all of the MMS families over. We had over 35 people here. The sun was shining beautifully and it was a perfect day. It was so nice having everyone here. The kids played so well together and the adults even joined in on valleyball. It was so much fun. Today is another beautiful day. The sun is shinning once more (this is a rare thing here lately, it has rained so much of June and July so far). Today we have to meet some friends in Columbus and pick up their son who is staying the week with Matthew. We will take him back to MI when we go next weekend. Then later today we have some friends stopping by on their way home to tour MMS and come to hang out at the Lazaros pad for a while. We are so excited. We love visitors to stop by.

We hope you have had a blessed 4th of July holiday weekend too. Enjoy the rest of it! :-)

Tomorrow is our 18th wedding anniversary. We are pretty excited about the mile stone. It is so much fun reflecting on what God has done and has taken you during those years. We are excited to see where the next ?? years take us.

(I know this post sounds like we are really excited about a lot of things...but we really are.) :-)

Until next time...
God bless

July 1st, 2008

It is already July and only 6 more days until Scott and I celebrate our 18th wedding anniversary. Wow, how time flies. We dated 6 years before we got married. I can't imagine being with out him. I feel I grow more and deeper in love with him all the time. I feel very blessed to have such a sweet soul-mate and best friend.

It is sunny here today and Shaughn went to work with Dad at the hangar. He normally goes on Monday's but yesterday MMS had seminar on doing blogs. He was excited to go in since it had been a couple of weeks since he has been able to.

We have had so much rain here lately that the sunshine is very refreshing. Everyone here is doing fine and enjoying summer. We pray that all is well with you and that you have a safe and fun July 4th week-end.

Bless you all,
Lela and boyz~