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Troy, Penny, Noah, Rowen

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Along life's way He has allowed us to share life with each other and loaned us two beautiful children, Noah and Rowen. We believe God's call on our life is to share the Gospel cross-culturally. We currently live in Verona Italy. In order to do what we do, as employees of Avant Ministries, we are responsible to find our own investors for our on-going ministry needs. We are at 89% of the pledged monthly support needed to keep us on the field. If you are interested in supporting or want more information, please contact us. troyt13@yahoo.com
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The Hike

Troy has become a hiker.  He has been on three with the language school.  The latest hike was to the mountains near lake Garda.  In the pictures are his teachers and some students and the sites -of course.  Enjoy.














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Orange ...the color of fall

This is a torte our neighbor Giusy brought over.  Really Italian from a real Italian!


We carved pumpkins with friends recently.  It was our new friends first time.  The kids were not all that impressed ...but their mama was :) 

Noah and Emmanuelle


Martina -cute as she can be

The finished project!

My friend Francesca with her pumpkin

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Tocati "Touch You"

Tocati is a festival where countries are invited to Verona to share about themselves.  There was a lot of activity in the city this weekend!

You can get a sense of the crowd and city life from this picture. 

A brass band playing "When The Saints Come Marching In" ushered in a parade to kick-off the weekend.

The parade displayed the countries taking part -this is Mexico (I think)

In front of a famous cathedral -Sant'Anastasia.

Acrobats from Taiwan amazing us with jump rope skills -who knew that could be done!?!

Don't know who these folks were -or where they were from but Rowen sure liked dancing while watching them.

A sport from Mexico?  Interesting.


                                                                                    Here is a link to see more -warning it is in Italian :)  Kinda fun to look over (briefly) http://www.tocati.it/eventi.php