Visiting 2 Retirees

Today, we stopped to see 2 retiree Avant missionaries.

Sarah served 15+ years in Mexico and has retired in Central City Nebraska. Her husband of 50 years just passed away in April 2023. It was great reconnecting with her and recounting memories of when Rich came to Guatemala back in 2007 with the Mexico leadership team or when we were in DC several years earlier and Rich had an aneurism and was in the hospital and we visited her, ran some errands and helped her out.

Our second stop was in a small Mennonite community in Jansen Nebraska and we picked up Tena Dick. She is a retired Avant missionary that served many many years in Mali, Africa. It was fun getting to know her and hear her story.

We drove to a larger town and had dinner at Roudy’s. Glenn and I “split” an order of “elephant ears” which were chicken fried steak. Tena ordered fried Gizzards. Pretty good.

Wow, what a story to meet these 2 godly women who served in different parts of the world. I gave them gift bags that included coffee mug, candy and miscellaneous stuff including several gift cards to Dairy Queen and Olive Garden.

It was a good day. I hope Sara and Tena feel encouraged. I feel blessed to know that they both love and serve the Lord.Read more