This past July 7th was mine and Kristen's 9 year wedding anniversary. She is a wonderful, and godly wife to whom I dearly love and cherish. Not many women in the world would be so willing to follow God's call to take and uproot a family of 5 and move 9000 miles from home to a foreign land. But my wife has done that.
She is such an integral part of my life and to my ministry here in Namibia. She is also a wonderful gift of God to me and to our three children. And we all love her very much and thank God for her each day.
We never have had much of a chance for fancy anniversaries as we have always been far from family to keep kids, and then the one year when we had family close by, she was battling cancer. So this year I had a special little getaway planned just for her. She had no clue about the plans, and yesterday morning I told her to pack her bags for the night. She asked where we were going, but it was all a big secret.
I took her to a very nice farm that is a 30 minutes drive, mostly on dirt roads, to a great guest farm nestled in the valley of the Otavi mountain region of Namibia. We went horse back riding, took a long stroll through the African bush, and had a wonderful candle lit dinner at the farm. It was quite cool last night, but the farm house had a nice fire going for us in the lounge area and we enjoyed time together and even played some card games. But it was a wonderful, quite, and peaceful time away from kids, and ministry just to focus on each other.
Below are some pictures of our little getaway.
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