Kaya is sick..

Kaya is sick with malaria and dengue fever. Please pray for her. Her case of malaria is not too bad but she has to take some nasty medicine to try to get rid of it, so please pray. Thanks.

Jalen is 6...

Jalen is now 6 and we had quite the party yesterday. Yesterday Jalen's entire class as well as some of his older and younger friends came to our house for Jalen's Bday party. It was two hours of insanity!!! Around 20 kids running around our yard yelling and out of control. Jalen had a great time and I think that all of his friends enjoyed it as well.

Other than that volleyball season is drawing to a close for Janna. Next week Friday will be her last games and then it is over. She will be glad when the season is over. She has had a great time and the girls have improved a lot but there just comes a time when it feels like it should be over.

This weekend ends the month of Ramadan here for the Muslim people. So please continue to pray as we try to reach out to the people here. As some of you know Ramadan is the month of fasting that ends with Idul Fitri. Idul Fitri will occur this weekend, basically it involves lots of prayer time and the Mosques have chants and prayers 24 hours.

That is all for now. Thank you for your continued prayer and support.

Life...

Life is going well and we continue to understand what it means to serve God with our whole lives. I was very touched this past Sunday with what the pastor of our church had said. He talked about not throwing time away on fruitless things. He spoke also on prayer and the fact that we need to pray and something will happen. Before we leave the house each morning pray that God will use you. Then look for those opportunties to be used. So often it is extremely scary to pray that prayer because what if God takes us out of our comfort zone?!? Amazing things can happen outside our comfort zone. If we truely want to be used by God to do His work we need to be asking Him to show us.

Another verse that I had underlined from a while ago and once again is becoming real is found in Luke 3:9, "Kapak sudah tersedia pada akar pohon dan setiap pohon yang tidak menghasilkan buah yang baik, akan ditebang dan dibuang ke dalam api." Wow! If I am not producing good fruit, I will be thrown into the fire. Powerful verse! Am I producing good fruit? How can I tell? Lord use me this week to produce good fruit. Amen

Praise

We are so thankful this week again for electricity. There is a rumor right now that PLN, our power company, has bought some new generators in which they are hoping to power Sentani. This is a huge praise as now we are hoping that some of the power issues will be resolved and some of the stress which this causes will evaporate.

In other news I now have 2 snakes. On Saturday I went to the market and bought a live rat trap to give to our house helper to see if we can catch any rats. Then yesterday morning as I was getting on my motorbike to head to school one of our neighbours came over and said that she had a live rat. SWEET! I love live rats. So yesterday morning the rat went in with my two snakes. Last night was so fun as the snakes are active at night. They knew he was in there and one of them was on the hunt. This morning the rat is still alive, we will see what happens tonight.

That is about all for now.