This is Phils brother Larry on the left. Phil had the privledge of teaching from Exodus 33..a great text of God's presence...look it up! 

This Sunday, Feb 26th we travelled to Reading Pennsylvania, where Phils brother Larry and his wife Lynne pastor the Salvation Army church. These are the "cousins" Jacob, Sarah, Meaghan, Adam (Just back from Iraq with the US Army, David and Christopher....Susan and Em are in the next row. 

Jacob and Phils brother Dan, what caption should we give this one?? "Should I have one more piece of pizza or not?" What do you think?? 

Susan and Phils mom Sara enjoying a slice of pizza and a coke together on a recent outing! 

Our Emma being her cute self in our kitchen!! She continues to amaze us with her spiritual insight and sensitivity....what does God have in mind for this little one?? 

From our Farewell Sunday at the Tallinn Kopli Corps.....Even as God The Holy Spirit sheds His love abroad in our hearts for our new church....He still causes to remain love for those represented in this picture. I think this is the New Testament pattern as seen in Pauls journeys and travels!  

Meet the newest member of the Wittenberg family....Niya...a Shi Tzu we got for Jacob from the Montgomery County SPCA...she is fitting in very well! Due to her deadly bark we call her Niya lator!! 

Jacob has lived outside the last two days, enjoying the snow...and there was no school today in Abington!! 

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! This is our new house in Philadelpha the morning after we had about 18 inches of snow! A winter wonderland. 

The Mercy Seat

In our reading of the One Year Bible, in Exodus, it says that the Mercy Seat is the same size as the Altar, the place of the presence of God....So wherever the presence of God is, so is His mercy! You cannot be in the presence of God without His mercy being there! We should be destroyed by being in His presence, instead we find mercy! Wow! We are all doing well, everone is in school and adjusting. The International School of Estonia had 110 kids, grades k-12. Sarahs Junior High has 2000 students, Meaghans High School almost the same and Jacobs and Emma Elementary School has about 650, so its quite an adjustment! Of course we are still in grief over leaving Tallinn, the process of grieving our loss bears a strong resemblance to other forms of grieving.....but we are also feeling very welcome in our new city and Church, excited about how God, through His Holy Spirit very much at work there. "But where we cannot see, we'll trust, for then we know He surely must, be still, our all in all. Christ is all, yes all in all, our Christ is all in all"