Adam and Chelsea's Wedding

Adam and Chelsea were married on August 10th at Cedar Springs Estates in Sandy Oregon.
Her mom and dad, Kim and Deanna Smith were gracious hosts and proud parents of the bride.

Gary was privileged to perform the ceremony. It was an honor for him to get them started off in their new life together with encouraging words from God's Word.

Adam's groom's men were, Bryan Posenjak, Brett Percich, Jeremy Posenjak, Jason Buffum, Jared Posenjak and Charlie Herbert

I'm afraid I'm not as familiar with the girls in the wedding party. But they were all lovely and their dresses were beautiful. Chelsea's three little nieces were adorable flower girls. It's too bad I didn't get them all in the picture.

Our Grandson, Dlyan, who is 7 years old was the ring bearer. He took his job very seriously and delivered the rings on que. Dylan is Bryan and Allison's son.

Adam and Chelsea, cutting the cake. Her grandparents catered the reception dinner and everything was wonderful. A really fun thing she did was decorate the tables at the reception with candle vases filled with water and gold fish swimming in them! She also had lighted candles, in little votive dishes floating in the pond.

Everyone enjoyed dancing to Adam and Chelsea's favorite Country tunes.

Margo's siblings, Trula, Harold, Shannon and Rea

It was so fun to have my sisters and brother all at the wedding. We spend a couple of nights together in the Best Western in Sandy and didn't get much sleep, trying not to waste any of our precious time together!

Rea and Shannon were able to go to Harold and Joany's home in Salem with Gary and I for a visit. Trula and her daughter Aimee had to head back to California the next day. Shannon and her daughter Katie spent the night and Harold took them to the airport on Sunday to fly back to Los Banos, CA. Rea was able to stay in Salem with us several days. We drove her to the airport and sent her home to Florida and Pat on Thursday. We sure missed our mom and dad. They would have had such a wonderful time at the wedding with all their children together.

We were thrilled to have so many friends from Friday Harbor and beyond, attend. I think everyone had a great time visiting with old friends. Several of the couples came a day early to help us prepare and serve the rehearsal dinner at Roslyn Lake Park, near Sandy. We served Yukon King Salmon that we brought with us from Kako.

Some Special Folks Along the Way

Helen, Dave, Elaine, Ruth and Merilyn

Bryan and Aunt Rea

Ken, Dave, Fred and Lon

Uncle Gary and Brandi

Margo and sister Trula

More Special Folks

Laurie and Baby Nathaniel



Chasity with a gift she made for Gary



Adam getting ready to take Mom and Dad flying



Shannon and Katie



Grandma Joany and Riley

Just a few more

Jim and Jeni



Kelly and Jill



Jared and Myles



Jeremy and David



Jackie and Jacob



Shannon, Rea, Aimee and Janet



Nathan and Matthew not getting their white shirts dirty before the wedding



Katie and Dylan



Ryan, Dylan and Brandin

Matthew's 3rd Birthday Party

Matthew's 3rd birthday party at his house in Bellingham, August 5th. Grandma and Grandpa were there as well as his cousins Nathan and Dylan from Friday Harbor, his Bellingham cousins, friends and neighbors. His Mommy decorated a Thomas Train Cake.

Some Posenjak Women

Here are the Posenjak women who attended Melissa's baby shower in Friday Harbor. Jackie, Jeni, Mesissa, Chelsea, Allison, Margo and Christine.

Summer Camp

Hi Friends and prayer supporters,

We had a tremendous camping season at Kako this year. We set new records in reaching 201 kids from 20 different villages. Over 40 kids accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. I just got a phone call from one of the kid's dads in Hooper Bay. He thanked me for teaching his son about Jesus and the decision that he made to follow Christ. We had 8 different camps starting with family camp where we had over 70 people attend. Then 6 kids camps and 1 wilderness camp for high school boys.

We had asked for prayer concerning our shortage of counselors (especially girl counselors). The Lord supplied great counselors for both boys and girls. We had also asked prayer for pilots for the last two weeks of camp and the Lord provided there too. We got help from Samaritan's Purse and MARC a mission organization that flies natives to Biblical activities. So thank you very much for your much needed prayers. The Lord is good!!!!!!

Please pray as I write a letter to the Russian Mission Council to get permission to use their sports hall to have a Kids Club once a week. We are also going to invite those in the village to come to our church services at Kako on Sundays and stay for dinner after wards. Margo and I have been going to Russian Mission regularly and meeting with different ones. We are beginning to feel accepted by the villagers.

Last month I went to a funeral for a young man from Russian Mission who drowned while fishing. We had him at our home several times and invited him to join us for Bible studies, but as far as we know he didn't make any decisions for the Lord. Anyway, while at the funeral many kids from camp and adults we have met in the village, spoke to me. One couple invited Margo and me to visit them the next Saturday. We had a good visit with them and encouraged them in this difficult time.

We would like to start Kid's clubs in Russian Mission, Marshall and Pilot Station this Fall. Pray for these clubs especially for Pilot Station. We had 5 kids from there for the first time. The village officials are not open to the gospel coming into their village. But now we have an in with the kids there.

We are now getting ready to fly to Seattle to be with our family and friends for Adam and Chelsea's wedding. We plan to be in the Northwest for the month of August. We are hoping to visit many of our supporters during this time. If you would like us to speak in your church please e-mail me soon so we can make a schedule.

Thanks again for your prayers and support.

Your missionaries to the Yup'ik Eskimos

Gary and Margo