Special Visitors

Dr. Jerry & Dee Sheveland (L), President of Converge Worldwide
 Dr. Jimmy & Laurie Martin, (R) General Secretary of the
International Baptist Convention - worship together at CIF!

July has been a very busy month!  We began the month by welcoming Dr. Jerry Sheveland and his wife Dee to Germany.  Dr. Sheveland is the president of Converge Worldwide, our US-based sending agency.  What a joy it was so spend time with this godly couple as they came to witness firsthand what God is doing in Darmstadt and around the world through the planting of English-language International Churches.  Jerry and Dee accompanied us to the annual summer meeting of the International Baptist Convention (our European-based agency) in Interlaken, Switzerland.  It was a great experience as they taught seminars, met pastors and their wives, and students, church leaders and families from IBC churches around the world.  After the conference, we drove back from Interlaken to Darmstadt (you quickly learn that some sections of the Autobahn have no speed limit, but other sections suffer from chronic traffic jams!), where the Shevelands spent several days visiting and encouraging us, worshiping with us, and sharing at the worship service of CIF. 

Asher, Eric, Cayden & Nicole McCrorey in Darmstadt.

Four days after the Shevelands returned to the US, we welcomed our daughter, Nicole, her husband Eric, and our two grandsons, Asher and Cayden, to Germany.  We have had a wonderful visit with them.  What a blessing to have godly children!  Eric serves as youth pastor at Maranatha Alliance Church in Horseheads, NY, and Nicole is a great partner in that ministry.  Asher, who is three years old, amazed us with his reciting of his first Bible memory verse, Psalm 19:14 (see video here).  Cayden is simply delightful at 8 months.  We have spent a great 10 days together, and as I write this, we are beginning a day of packing and last minute preparations for our flight together to the US tomorrow morning.

Grandma & Grandpa with the boys near Dachau.