Greetings to all from the island of Rhodes. We do not have internet access where we are staying so I am at a shop downtown and will try to bring you up to date. There will be no pictures with this edition but we will try to catch up on pictures the next time we have better access to internet.

We were greeted Wednesday with a barbeque in the backyard of Pastor George and Lydia's house. It was wonderful. We spent three hours that evening counseling a young couple who want to get married. They have so few resources and so few good examples here that marriage is a real challenge.

On Thursday, we got to catch up on our rest a little bit because we were staying at an apartment by ourselves and could get around whenever we wanted. After we were ready we walked to George and Lydia's house which is about 2 miles. It felt so good to actually do something physical.

We spent the day there until about 9 PM. In the afternoon we had a wonderful time sharing and praying with George and Lydia about the problems in Greece, especially the cultural behaviors that hinder their walk with God, their parenting and their marriages. They want very much to have teaching and modeling that will help them establish a bibilical pattern for these things. God spoke some wonderful things to us concerning our ministry and it was also very challenging.

We spent two hours with Tassos and Haris who live next door. Haris and Lydia are sisters. Tassos is a painter who has been working for several years on an island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece. He has not been an evangelist in the past. He has brought one person to the Lord in 25 years, but all of a sudden God began to speak to him about people and began to open up opportunities for him to share. This year he is bringing 9 people to the conference that he has won to the Lord. This is a remarkable feat in this culture. It is a small island and everybody knows everybody else and it caused quite an outburst of anger but now has calmed down and he is teaching these people every week.

When we got back to our apartment, we had to repack because the airlines here only allow one 20 kilogram bag each. We got finished just before 11 PM and got to sleep. George picked us up at 8:20 the next morning and took us to the airport and we flew to Rhodes.

Nikos picked us up and took us to his home where he lives with his wife Thena, son Stefanos, and married son Paniotes and his wife Vera. It is a beautiful home that Nikos built completely on his own. We had dinner and talked about the work of God and then went to service at 8 PM. I preached a message on "This noise was heard." It is an interesting message that God gave me while I was in Germany. I will preach it at home some time. We ate after the service and then collapsed into bed at almost 1 AM. Athena is starting to feel exhausted. Today I will try to get her to rest for most of the day. We want to have more time with Nikos and Thena ministering to them in any area that God will open up. We will have another service tonight and then on Sunday we fly to Heraklion just in time to meet the Pastors John and Elpida and then go to service.

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for us. Continue to hold Athena up in prayer. She is sleeping every night but not really enough to maintain her strength. She gets about four hours a night and needs at least seven.