The McCauleys

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 [...]

Here is the most recent picture of our GEM Austria team taken at last weeks planning retreat. We have a really good team and am glad to be apart of what God is doing here in Austria. Tags: Austria

Today is going to be a full day.  I, Eric, will teach children’s church this morning.  We will be finishing a flim clip and talking about forgiveness. After church, we go home and pack for our 2 day GEM Austria Annual Strategic Planning Retreat.  I am excited because I think it will be very good [...]

I must admit, this is not my usual morning routine but today this is exactly what I did with 4 other co-workers.  Getting visas is an important thing when living in another country so we are willing to stand outside in the cold for an hour in hopes of securing a coveted visa.  It seems [...]

We have been enjoying Elena’s first Christmas with us. On Christmas Eve, after we read the Chrismas story from Luke and have a time of prayer we usually open our Presents then.  Kati passed out everyones present so we all had ours in front of us then we take turns opening each present seeing what [...]

I am trying to get caught up a bit on this site. A few weeks ago Kati’s kindergarten celebrated Lantern Fest.  (Visit the picasa link below to see more) The children made small lanterns (flashlights) and we walked around the neighborhood singing some songs.  After the walk a “fire balloon” was set off, pictures are [...]

Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful to be back on line after a week of not having any internet access.  I never knew just how dependant I was on it.  We have celebrated Thanksgiving with some really good friends and it was great fun. Right now everyone is sprawled out all over our house sleeping.  I [...]

Christy and I were talking this week about our website/blog and she gave me some feedback on it which I took into consideration and as a result have made some modifications. I took some of the bells and whistles off so hopefully it doesn’t look so cluttered or confusing.  I am now going to post [...]

On the Fourth of July, we roasted marshmallows over the grill in the back yard. We were all excited and had everything set; the big marshmallows, a packet of Hershey’s bars and box and a half of graham crackers. The fire was all set, the marshmallows toasted golden brown the Hershey bar broken and placed [...]

After a few months of thinking about changing out website I finally made the plunge. I have switched to using WordPress with the hopes of it being easier to update. I am still playing around with the style of the site so please bear with me as the appearance may change from time to time [...]