Tribute to my Grandma

Always there to love never to judge
Making perogies and sausage, ham and potatos
Watching our games even when she did not know the rules
Always welcome never shunned
Gave what they could living on little
Tree forts in the yard cousins standing guard
Christmas time a blast when Schroeders were the cast
Supporting in all we did
Praying Praying Praying
Our lives will never be the same
She is gone she does not want to come back
She sits at Jesus feet
Lord we rejoice in the life of my grandmother
thankyou for all the years I got to know her
May we live our lives to glorify and honor God!
Grandma I love you

Update...

Two weeks from today begins the teacher orientation for a new school year. This year we are short on teachers, administrators, IT people, and just about everything that one can be short on. So if you fit one of the above and want to serve overseas please get in touch with me or the school. Would love to see you here working along side us.

Now in an other situation our school would be in a panic. It is amazing how we just need to give it over to God and realize that we are all His and under His plan anyway. If we can realize this it is amazing how at peace one can feel in the midst of crazy circumstances.

God is good, all the time. Do we believe this deep down or not?? My heart wants to believe it! Lets believe!

Singapore... Pyramid...

Singapore this summer went well. Kids got their checkups and I had a MRI done on my knee. The doctor found out that I did not have an ACL and so repaired it. Had surgery 3 days after the initial appointment and now am back home recovering. The part that I do not like at this moment is the wait, 6 months until I can even think of touching a basketball again. Not cool!

We just returned from a week of being in the interior. Every year MAF has a great time as all Papua MAFers get together for a week of spiritual and emotional renewal. A church named New Heights from the US sends out a team to lead the services and look after the children. The amount that this church does for us is unbelievable. We can not thank them enough. The pastor went through Luke 7-10. Amazing stuff. Called to Care is what the team came to do and to challenge us to do in Indonesia. Janna and I came home refreshed spiritually, of course not physically as you do not really sleep because it is too much fun to play games with friends til all hours of the morning. Our kids had a blast. The team from New Heights sends out college age kids to hang out and lead VBS for the kids so that the adults can spend their time listening to the Word of God. Basically we would see our kids at meals only. All in all a great time!!

Well we are back at home now trying to get everything back to normal as we now have two and a half weeks before school starts. Time to get back to work. Thank you all so much for your support and encouragement.

Surgery...

We came to singapore for the kids eyes and to have my knee MRI ed. The specialist told me with one touch of my left knee that my ACL was gone. Then the MRI confirmed that I did not even have an ACL. So yesterday I had reconstructive surgery on my left knee. After the surgery the doctor came and showed me pics of my knee. He found out that indeed my ACL was no where to be seen and that my MCL was 30% torn. Crazy. This could be the cause of my discomfort:-) I stayed in the hospital for one night and am now back home wishing for more pain killers.

Please pray that we can now get my flight changed because I need to stay here to have some phsyiotherapy.

Kids appointments went well and we are having fun in Singapore. Well thank you all for your continuing support.