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This week Valerie had a chance to go on a retreat with our new team. It is the Area Leadership Team for Eastern Europe & Russia. We spent the week at a beautiful hotel in the Hungarian countryside called Szépalma which means “Beautiful Apple.” It is a horse farm and hotel and is owned by a Swiss Christian banker. He operates it as a hotel and offers large discounts to Christian groups so it was a wonderful place for a retreat.

Valerie & I are both totally exhausted, but totally energized about the chance to work with this team and these wonderfully faithful people. The exciting part is that there are 2 other couples that are new like us and they are both Eastern Europe nationals. One is from Poland and the other from Romania. They will be the first nationals to serve on our Area Leadership Team!!! Praise the Lord!!