Moving is a lot of work!
Late last month Christy and I decided to move to a better location for life and ministry. We really love our current location but a few factors helped us move toward this decision. First of all our landlord has been negligent for the past 3 years on some major repairs. In the winter our windows [...]
Greater Europe Mission (GEM) celebrating 60 years
This week the whole family is attending GEM’s annual conference in the Czech Republic which is only a 6 hour drive (with children) from our home in Vienna. Last year we were still in the states and could not attend in the conference and are glad to be here this year. Each year the annual [...]
Back to Blogging
Hello everyone. It has been a while since I have posted an update and thought it is time I started informing everyone what we have been up to. When I started this I wanted to have small weekly updates so it would be more managable for me and you and I will try to get [...]
Kagran Church: Project Pagro
Some of you may know that our church the Free Evangelical Church of Kagran is looking for a place to relocate. For the past year they have been talking with an owner for purchasing a building. We have send information through our sail mal Newsletter last year. In the past month there [...]
International Travel isn’t what its cracked up to be.
Last week I attended a Language Coaching Workshop in Budapest Hungary. Hungary is a neighboring country due East. I took a 3 hour train ride from Vienna to Budapest. There are some of you out there who are thinking,“Oh how nice. A European train ride. Wouldn’t THAT be fun.” I can here my mom saying [...]
Walk thru 1 Moses (Genesis)
Gemeinde Kagran Last Sunday I, Eric, was able to give a short update at church on what is going on in children’s church. I made a short video that showed the children doing a modified “Walk thru the Bible” but just with the book of Genesis. (In the German Bible they call the first 5 [...]
Right on schedule for being sick in February.
Every year around this time the McCauley family decides to take advantage of all the germs running rampent and gets sick. This year I, Eric, am feeling a little lonely because right now I am the only one sick. Last year we avoided this and this year it seems as if I am the one [...]
Bible Training on Location (BAO) celebrates 25 years of ministry!
This past weekend BAO celebrated their 25th annivesary. It was exciting to hear how BAO started from one man’s vision, Wili Giefing, and with a small group working hard to provide leadership materials that are biblical. At the celebration a few former students gave testimony of how BAO has been vital in their spiritual formation [...]
Finally Some Snow!!!
We haven’t had a lot of snow this year and on Thursday we finally got enough to make a snowman and go sledding! We were able to capture Kati sledding down a hill in our neighborhood. We took this on a digital camera and apparently it does not record any sound so it looks almost [...]
Children’s Church at Gemeinde Kagran
Last year I,Eric, was asked to be in charge of our churches Children’s Ministry. I didn’t feel comfortable taking that kind of leadership positions since there were other capable people in the church. The church is 25 years old and we believe it is not our job to do the job but help Austrians [...]