{"id":348,"date":"2023-03-31T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/?p=348"},"modified":"2023-03-31T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:20:20","slug":"all-sorts-of-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"All Sorts of Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our front doorbell kept ringing non-stop. I hurried downstairs as fast as this old body could take me.\u00a0 I unlocked the door and Gary quickly leaped into our small foyer.\u00a0 He gasped, \u201cI almost stepped on a skunk in the driveway!\u201d\u00a0 I am not sure what both of us would have done if this unwanted visitor had sprayed him.\u00a0 Thankfully, it didn\u2019t happen and so one potential problem was diverted.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you remember the huge snowfall we received the day before Christmas Eve?\u00a0 It was so bad that the 401 highway was shut down around London for a couple of days. Our daughter Sara\u2019s friend, Heather was expecting an exchange student to fly in from Germany. \u00a0She couldn\u2019t make it from Chatham to pick her up at the airport that night.\u00a0 Sara asked if we would take Johanna in. She finally arrived at 2 a.m. via Uber.\u00a0 The poor girl had to enter our house and find the guest room on her own as we were sleeping.\u00a0 We met each other in the morning, and she participated in our Christmas Eve family celebration. Heather couldn\u2019t pick her up until Christmas morning.\u00a0 Recently we received a lovely thank you note from her for our hospitality which reads, \u201c\u2026 It\u2019s not easy for me at home and this Christmas was the first one I ever celebrated with a family \u2026 it was the first Christmas I ever really enjoyed so thank you \u2026 You are a lovely family and are so lucky to have each other.\u00a0 Never let go of that and always remember how much love you have for each other, even in difficult times \u2026 .\u201c What a happy ending for this young German visitor!\u00a0 She will be returning to Canada this summer; her story is not finished.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have been able to raise enough funds for Thomas in Myanmar to purchase wood for making double bunkbeds for the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 rooms in his orphanage he is building.\u00a0 He still requires funds for digging a well and kitchen appliances. He is planning to find children in the third week of April.\u00a0 I am not sure how he will pick and choose but these orphans will at first come as visitors before they all bond together into a family unit. \u00a0We will keep you posted on his progress for your prayers. (https:\/\/MyanmarOrphans.ca<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, we are very grateful to be able to hold our Hillside Sunday services at the Swiss Chalet in Milton.\u00a0 The general manager has been exceptionally welcoming.\u00a0 All we need is visitors to attend.\u00a0 Scott Lockhart\u2019s health has not been good for the last few weeks; however, he finally learned last week that the reason for his constant stomach pain for a very long time is the result of bacteria in his small intestine.\u00a0 He is now on heavy antibiotics which hopefully will resolve this problem for him and give him more energy as the days go forward. Hillside\u2019s future does look bright, so please keep praying.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It hasn\u2019t always been easy for me to be welcoming to visitors or strangers in my home or my church; but when I do reach out, I\u2019m always glad I did, similar to our experience with Johanna.\u00a0 The Apostle John in the New Testament commends such activity, \u201c\u2026 you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you.\u201d (3 John 1:5). But I do draw the line at skunks that might be living under our front porch even though strangely enough, Gary does like a light scent of their smell!\u00a0 We must get a light bulb rigged up in there somehow since they don\u2019t like lights.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Easter!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy.carter@kainos.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our front doorbell kept ringing non-stop. I hurried downstairs as fast as this old body could take me.\u00a0 I unlocked the door and Gary quickly leaped into our small foyer.\u00a0 He gasped, \u201cI almost stepped on a skunk in the driveway!\u201d\u00a0 I am not sure what both of us would have done if this unwanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}