Better photo of Ron Pritz

Okay, so here is a much better photo of CEO Pritz. Sorry about that Ron.

MAFI and CanIL visit in British Columbia

Dan attended the Missionary Aviation Fellowship, International board meetings in downtown Vancouver and we all went on a dinner cruise of the harbor so you see the famous Lionsgate Bridge between Stanley Park and North Vancouver, and the lighted sphere of the Science center in Flase Creek Bay. The top row of photos are; the newly elected CEO of MAFUS, John Boyd, then Dan and I with long time friend Larri Gardner, then Larri with Janet Busk the CFO for MAFI and a side view of newly elected President and CEO of MAFI, Ron Pritz.

We spent time with retired Wycliffe translator Joy McCarthy in Abbotsford (pictured here with her brother Dave and his wife Flora). The center photo is me with Carrie Lundberg Gamble, whom I've known since before she was born! We also stopped in at Trinity Western to visit CanIL (Canadian Institute of Linquistics) and Dan's long time friend Mike Walrod (they ran around the Philippines as teenagers together). Here is a photo of me with Hyatt Moore's painting of the indigenous last supper. I noticed there weren't any women in the picture so I filled in for the woman who undoubtedly was taking the photo! Owell. The forest shot with rising mist is to give you an idea of winter in the 'great north wet'.

Tulalip Tribe and Sea Bird Island Band visit

Sept 16-21, 2008 we flew to Seattle, rented a car and drove to Dan's MAFI board meetings in Vancouver, BC. The collection of photos are some of the people we visited in Tulalip, Washington and then in BC at the Seabird Island band with Archie Charles and his family.

The summer of 2007 we were at Tulalip and Bernie Gobin took us to his son's shop to show us the totems Joe was working on for the new Tulalip Resort near Marysville, WA on I-5. Seeing the standing totems was awesome and the stories behind Joe's designs are wonderful. So much of the resort's 12 floors have art and designs on display from many of Bernie's family. You can see Patti Gobin and I standing on either side of the art designed from one of the elder's combs. Dan also got to pick some of the wild black berries I'd told him so much about.

Then we went to have Dan meet Archie Charles at Sea Bird Island. Archie was chief there for 28 years (all the time I lived in BC) and retired in 1999. Here he is in traditional dress with cedar bark hat and wool shawl with Mt. Cheam in the background. You can also see Sam George standing by his van showing me where a bear climbed up and over the van that was parked at his home. I hadn't been in Sea Bird for 20 years so the families have grown.

"Pioneers in Pith Helmets" by Martha E. Green

My good friend and mentor, Betty Sue Brewster, just showed me a copy of her mother's new book, Pioneers in Pith Helmets. Delicately laced through this story is Martha Greens' journey of joy from childhood to retirement. In the book you will read how Martha learned to trust her loving Lord to the point where she could say, "disappointments may be God's appointments for us," and "it was one of those unique happenstances that our Heavenly Father had planned for a purpose unknown to us."

In this delightful missionary journaling you will experience the high lights of Martha's 90 years including the reunion with her family, courtship with Steve, call to Venezuela, arrival of five chilren, and pioneer church planting. The journey is summed up by Martha's words, "love and joy, tears and praise mingled together in my heart."

This book is available through Lingua House for $11.50 plus $4 shipping and handling. e-mail: Telephone 626-500-6278

Baby Emma Karynn born this morning

Noah has his baby sister! Here is the announcement from Ryan after he called from Istanbul, Turkey. "Well our big day arrived today. Our beautiful daughter named Emma Karynn Shaw came into the world. She is a perfectly healthy little princess and our pride and joy. She is 7 pounds 5 ounces and 20.5 inches long and was born at 8:28 AM on September 5th." Kelly and Ryan are so happy.