Places In Greece and Bulgaria We've Seen

This week, we drove to Thessaloniki where we met some great new friends, Todd and Evi Pekel. We were introduced to them by Pastor Dimitris of Thassos Christian Fellowship, where we've been attending church and sharing in some great fellowship.

Todd and Evi (left) were very gracious and invited us to stay with them in their apartment in the middle of town for a few days while Todd showed us some of the sites in and around Thessaloniki.

They have a language school and Todd works as an ambassador for Christ in Greece along with his partner in ministry, Marvin, another new friend. You can see Todd's website, "Workers Together With Him", here. He and Marvin have a heart for unity in the body of Christ and it just comes oozing out of them. Great guys and Todd and his wife are a great couple. We plan to return to Thessaloniki soon to see more!

Our Map, So Far:


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Monday evening, we will leave for the Island of Chios, where my Grandfather grew up. We hope to find the village he was born in. From there, we plan to travel to Turkey to see Ephassos (Ephesus). We hear it is magnificent. We will also visit the Island of Samos on the way back to Keramoti.

We will be gone for four days, much time spent on the ferries but a lot of biblical sites to see!

BTW, again. We are indeed desperately missing everyone at home. I was reading a blog this morning that describes how we feel pretty well. It's by Kevin DeYoung (we have some of his books in the WBF Bookstore) and you can read it here.