Stopover in Houston

En route to Tennessee from San Antonio, we spent a couple of days in Houston. Rob and Jeanne were our neighbors in Charlottesville. In fact, Jeanne was the church administrative secretary at Covenant Church we I (Tom) was on staff in Virginia.

Many times, Claudia and Jeanne swapped kids and babysitting responsibilities in the past. And they spent a couple of days with us in Germany last year, too. But this was our first time to be with their kids since we moved to Germany in 2003.

Rob and Jeanne have a big heart for missions. And when they relocated to Houston, they wanted to find a church that shared their burden for missions. They started going to Grace Church of Humble which shortly began a missions program. Before long, Jeanne became the secretary for the missions pastor, Mike Acosta. And although he was out that weekend for a missions trip to Mexico, he made the time to meet us on the evening of his return (and the night before our departure). And one other highlight was an afternoon at Kemah on the Galveston Bay.