LAST WEEKEND:  on saturdays, our church has a radio program going on a local station.  a young woman in our church is the announcer and dh is funding it and finding interesting christian speakers.  topics have been:      

(1) an international mish couple that adopted 2 handicapped albanian children.  (2) national pastor from the capital, a doctorate, discussed the christian history of the area.  (3) some national christian couples and a single discussed the christian view of LOVE and what it means from a Biblical perspective.  this was the most popular show, so far...  (4) medical doctor discussed the physical effects of unforgiveness (5) another pastor discussed the supposed grave of Jesus that was found

it's kind of funny because the islam#c community has "islam#c lecture" on friday afternoons.  they READ a lecture.  mark is hearing jokes in the community about people "voting" for which program they like best...

here's a photo of luke at the microphone inside the sound box.  he went with dad to the station this last sat.

on sunday, we took a bus load of people from our small town to the capital for a joint easter service.  it was completely packed out.  we did our "family" easter celebration, that included an egg hunt, the day before.  the neighbor kids came out when we were finishing, so we re-filled the plastic eggs with candy and hid them again for the neighbor kids to find. 

monday, we went to a wedding. the high school principal of a nearby town is a good friend of mark's.  his brother was visiting from germany to get married to a local girl (yes, an arranged marriage).  mark's friend wanted him to be the "flag bearer" which is the first car that leads a whole procession that goes to pick up the bride from where her family is having a party.  here's our jeep with the large flag on a pole that is held out the window by the front side passenger.  the cars are just starting to line up behind us for the procession.