Thursday, April 17, 2008

We're back!

We made it back to Costa Rica on Tues. evening April 15th after being in the states for two weeks. After the funeral of my brother in law, Paul Faughn, on Wed. April 2nd, we went to be with Mike's mom in the hospital in Bryant,AR. Mom passed away on Friday evening April 4th. God is so good to have allowed us to be with her a couple of days before her going home to be with Him. Her funeral, or should I say celebration, was on Monday Apr. 7th. Mrs. Kemper was a woman of God as found in Proverbs 31. Mike was able to spend some days with his father in Ark. and I spent a couple of days with my sister in So. ILL. We both met in West TN for the last 3 days with our sons and their families.

We have lost two dear people in our family to death, my brother in law Paul, and Mike's mom, but I don't know of two people that had more faith than these two. They are now worshiping our dear Savior face to face, we can only dream and try to imagine the joy they have.

Thanks for all your prayers, cards, flowers and memorials. We certainly felt the strength that only comes from our Father, whom you have prayed to on our behalf.
Our MAC Region of our mission and our collegues have been super supportive of us and we owe them our deepest graditude.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey y'all~ Just saw your blog, sorry to hear about your losses. We are in the states for 2 weeks, Richie's aunt died yesterday and he will be doing the funeral. We miss you guys and hope you are doing ok. If you ever get a chance to come to Honduras, please let us know! We hope to come to Costa Rica in August...will let you know.
Love and prayers~
Lori & Rich

MIKE AND KATHY KEMPER said...

Lori,
Good to hear from you. We would be happy for you all to stay with us when you come, or if we are out on a team you are welcome to stay in our house. We live in Morvaia now. Kathy