Ellen Rosenberger

This summer has been full of activities, celebrations, and traveling.   Here's a recap in pictures...   June 6: NCA graduation June 12: World Cup begins! June 18 - 26:  Our friend, Hannah, visits us in Nicaragua. June 21: Seeing Melody, Mark and Christine (on mission trips in Nicaragua). June 28: David and Emily travel with Grammie and GrandDad to the USA.  July 2: Luke and I finish packing and storing things in Nicaragua and fly to Indy. July 4: Parade in Sheridan, Indiana. July 7: Reunited with our kids in Colorado! July 7 - 10: Stay with Katy , Eric, and Winter in Denver. July 11 - 27: Family vacation in Frisco, Colorado with Grammie and GrandDad July 13: David turns 3 and all he wanted was a strawberry cake! July 24: Trying out a new restaurant for my birthday. July 26: Enjoying Dairy Queen for GrandDad's birthday. July 27 - August 1: DAR (Debriefing and Renew...

Luke and I had the opportunity to attend a DAR (Debriefing and Renewal) seminar the last week of July.  It was held at Mission Training International in Palmer Lake, Colorado.  This program was for any missionaries who had spent time on the mission field and were coming back to the US for a time. Topics included: stress, burn-out, soul care, healthy goodbyes and hellos, etc. We took this week as a wonderful gift from God.  We were very thankful that an anonymous donation came in to pay for more than half the cost of the conference!  And an added blessing was that our kids could spend the week with their Grammie and GrandDad, leaving us with kid-free meal times and evenings - a great chance to hang out with others or process what we'd been learning each day.   Though the program is pricey, we found it very helpful and would highly recommend it to any missionary who has spent any amount of time on the mission field.  It is so well worth it.  He...