Josiah, We Miss You!!!

Last Friday night we had a event to honor Josiah at our coffee house.  It was so good. We had all of his classmates come in to make a card for him, get a little gift that he had sent them from America and hear a message from him and Jennifer. It was so precious!  

All the kids were busy working on their cards for him.

We had a slide show running with all our favorite pictures of Josiah.

Sweet card from one of his classmates.

There is Brave Josiah saying hey to all of his friends from 5000 miles away.

This is Jule (Julianna) who is a believer from Skopje. She has been battling lymphoma for about a year and was able to share with the parents a little bit about chemotherapy and her faith in this fight.

"We Miss You Josiah!!!"

We were SO grateful for this opportunity to get together with all these kids and their parents to share with them about the Dover's faith through this horrible situation. It was also wonderful to see how many people love and care for them here in Macedonia.  

Please continue to pray for our sweet friends.  Josiah is doing well considering all that he has had to go through, and the Lord is teaching all who love this little boy about His faithfulness and goodness.  I heard a great quote in a sermon by J.D. Greear yesterday, "The biggest gift God could 

ever give us is not giving us more blessings and gifts but allowing us to know Him more intimately. Trials do that." May we all know our Creator and Sustainor more and more intimately with every passing day.  

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,  to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls." 

1 Peter 1:3-9

We love you Josiah, Judah, Noah, Charlie and Jennifer and we miss you more than words could ever begin to express! We WILL NOT stop praying!!!