Unbelievable! The last post was June 20th. We are sorry about that. Since the last post we have moved across Indonesia and hooked into different interent providers. One of these blocks the website blogspot so we have been unable to access the site. Anyway, here is an update on our lives.
We are now living in Papua Indonesia, we have set up our house and the kids are really enjoying having some room to bike and run around. For those of you who have not yet heard, Jalen broke his arm the 3rd day after we arrived here and so has had a cast on his arm until about 3 days ago. Needless to say he was ready for the cast to come off because with the cast there was no swimming. He got his cast off and immediately wanted his training wheels off his bike. SO the day after the cast came off he learned to ride without training wheels.
Kaya loves dogs and our new neighbours have a dog that had 3 puppies when we arrived. She was over there playing with them and just loving the attention that the puppies would give her. Of course she intantly wanted one, but Dad has held firm so far. The puppies have now all been given away and so the pressure to get a dog is off for a while.
Other than that Janna and I have been trying to set up our home and keep the ants at bay. We have done some serious things to the yard and the house. The yard was full of rocks which we removed. In the rocks we found 2 cochroch nests, piles of ants, bees, and of course a snake. The snake was not a poisonous one and so I picked it up. Let me back up. There were cochroaches by the hundreds coming out of this hole by the tree so I spraid insect killer in the hole and out came the snake. I think that the snake did not like the insect repellent because after I picked it up it proceded to bite me 2 times. My first snake bites, cool! Our Indonesian yard worker told me that the snake must be evil because usually that type does not bite. I enjoy snakes and so now I am currently building a place to put them when I find them.
Today is the first day that I have gone to the school to begin preparation for the coming school year. The students arrive on the 20th and the teacher orientation is a couple of days before that. Right now it sounds like I am teaching AP Calculus, Precalculus, Algebra I, Physics, and possibly Statistics. Should be interesting! I am excited to get back into the classroom and teach some higher level mathematics.
Talk to you again soon. Now these will once again start to come on a more regular basis. See yah!
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
We are off....
We are off to Papua tomorrow night. We fly through the night on Friday to arrive at our destination, Papua. We all have been working for two years to get to this point. So thank you so much everyone for hanging in there with us. We plan to update our web page once we get to Papua, so look forward to that.
God is good, we realize that new everyday in how he orchestrates the littlest details.
Thanks everyone.
God is good, we realize that new everyday in how he orchestrates the littlest details.
Thanks everyone.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Quick Update....
Quick update on what is happening in our lives. Jalen has graduated from Kindergarden. Kaya has two more days of school left. Darren has 4 more days of school left. We have 5 more days in Bandung. That is about our lives in a nutshell. We are busy getting all the last minute things taken care of before moving to our base assignment in Sentani. We are really looking forward to getting to our house and getting everything set up.
One item of prayer is for our container as it is currently on a boat heading to Papua from our island here on Java. We are hoping that it arrives on the 26th of June, according to the schedule, but this is Indonesia and so nothing is ever as it seems. Please pray that this container will reach its destination dengan selamat (with safety). Also pray as we say goodbye to everyone here in Bandung that we can show Christ's love to the people here. We also have excellent friends that we have met here that will be posted in other parts of Indonesia, this is always a sad time.
Jalen has already began to experience the life of a missionary as he said goodbye to some of his friends in kindergarden that most likely he will never see again. The life of a missionary is filled with goodbyes, and often times tough ones.
Well we are excited about finally getting to Papua, we are sad about leaving friends here, we are stressed about the little details of moving, and we are excited about what God continues to do in our lives. Talk to you again soon.
One item of prayer is for our container as it is currently on a boat heading to Papua from our island here on Java. We are hoping that it arrives on the 26th of June, according to the schedule, but this is Indonesia and so nothing is ever as it seems. Please pray that this container will reach its destination dengan selamat (with safety). Also pray as we say goodbye to everyone here in Bandung that we can show Christ's love to the people here. We also have excellent friends that we have met here that will be posted in other parts of Indonesia, this is always a sad time.
Jalen has already began to experience the life of a missionary as he said goodbye to some of his friends in kindergarden that most likely he will never see again. The life of a missionary is filled with goodbyes, and often times tough ones.
Well we are excited about finally getting to Papua, we are sad about leaving friends here, we are stressed about the little details of moving, and we are excited about what God continues to do in our lives. Talk to you again soon.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Wow...
Wow has time ever been flying here once again. My parents have come and gone and had a great time. We had an awesome time with them, showing them around Bandung and showing them some the western part of Java. I think that they had a great time, and we most certainly did. So thanks mom and dad for taking the time and money to come and visit it means a ton to us.
Since they have gone we have had to keep busy packing. For the last two days we have had our packers in our house packing up all of our belongings here to send to Papua by boat. So right now our things are in Jakarta being loaded on a boat for Papua. We continue to thank God for how everything works out and how he blesses us.
Janna has already completed language school and I have 2 weeks left. It is amazing that after about 2 years of working towards the goal of getting to Papua, we have almost reached it. Maybe I should not say we, but God, has almost reached it. We have learned how to rely on Him for things. It is amazing how vulnerable we are. I think no matter where we live we are vulnerable but we get into a comfort zone and we think that we have all this power over our own lives. Living outside that comfort zone we really feel that vulnerability and thank God for his work in our lives.
One more very important thing to mention, although it is difficult for me to because it means that I am old, is that our eldest son is graduating from Kindergarden on Thursday. I still can not believe this! WOW! I know for most of you this is sudah biasa (normal) because you have already experienced it but for me this is something. Anyway thanks for all your prayers during this incredibly busy time in our lives.
Tuhan Berkati (God Bless)
Since they have gone we have had to keep busy packing. For the last two days we have had our packers in our house packing up all of our belongings here to send to Papua by boat. So right now our things are in Jakarta being loaded on a boat for Papua. We continue to thank God for how everything works out and how he blesses us.
Janna has already completed language school and I have 2 weeks left. It is amazing that after about 2 years of working towards the goal of getting to Papua, we have almost reached it. Maybe I should not say we, but God, has almost reached it. We have learned how to rely on Him for things. It is amazing how vulnerable we are. I think no matter where we live we are vulnerable but we get into a comfort zone and we think that we have all this power over our own lives. Living outside that comfort zone we really feel that vulnerability and thank God for his work in our lives.
One more very important thing to mention, although it is difficult for me to because it means that I am old, is that our eldest son is graduating from Kindergarden on Thursday. I still can not believe this! WOW! I know for most of you this is sudah biasa (normal) because you have already experienced it but for me this is something. Anyway thanks for all your prayers during this incredibly busy time in our lives.
Tuhan Berkati (God Bless)
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