Updates
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In an earlier post, I mentioned we would like to highlight each of the teams that we sent out in October. The team on the left flew to Hong Kong and spent two months teaching there and in their northern neighbour. Their newsletter is the picture on the left – it’s a picture because the…
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– Croatian and Split. – Italian and Rome. – Ukrainian and Lviv. ** Kudos to a running commentary by Joshua Walker
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After 1.5 years in Kyiv we have staffed/led a 9 month SBS (bible school) and led the Titus Project Training Program. These are normally two separate entities that work along side each other. On Monday we will be merging these two ministries into 1 team! It is an exciting time of unity, cooperation, and hopefully…
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Budapest, Christmas Morning The sun is shining in the windows and the cinnamon buns are cooking in the oven. It is Christmas! Cassie and Jay wake up happy. It is going to be a good day. After eating some yummy cinnamon buns (that turned out okay even with no brown sugar), we gave our gifts…
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It depends how you read it. The title could imply ‘the stuff about God you have missed’ but actually it is a book about rest. Our Pastor from Canada sent it to us and it arrived appropriately the day before we left on vacation. We got in the car early the day after we graduated…
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Today was Bingo’s first appointment.For now, Ludmila is our doctor, and she did a great job today! Of course, Bingo is still only 16 to 17 weeks old, so he’s got a lot of growing to do (does the phrase, “skin and bones” mean anything to you?). But we saw Bingo’s heart beating away, 135…
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In most of the places we have spent our fall in the last 5 years, there is usually more American influence than Canadian, which means celebrating American thanksgiving. So this week we will celebrate with all our friends here. (we found out that our friend Becky even imported pumpkin pie filling for the pies… we’re…
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I recently read an article by Danny Lehman on the importance of reading. As I sit and teach Cassie to read, Danny’s thoughts and words remind me to persevere. Although I am a Mom of two (almost three), these words remind me that reading time needs to be intentionally included in my schedule because ‘Readers make leaders, and leaders make…
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– For God to provide an English speaking doctor for this baby – Health for Angela (we dont want any repeats of the last pregnancy and going into labour early) – The perfect home for our family for the long term (we are tired of moving!) -Guidance in visa issues (Ukraine is changing their visa…
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We have been in Georgia this past month with a team of bible teachers. We had very little internet access so that is why we haven’t updated this blog in a long time. Please forgive us. The picture to the left is a team dinner we had to celebrate Harald and Marjo’s 10th anniversary. Joys:…
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‘Can I peek Mom?’ To find out what Cassie wants to peek at, take a look under our videos.
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Well, we are nearly finished with the first 3 weeks of the training program. This is exciting because the theory (classroom) part is over and now we will get out into the real world and teach people. Some of the special characteristics of this particular program: – of 9 participants and 9 staff, we represent…
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We are leading Titus Project training program right now, first time ever in Ukraine, first time ever in Russian, first time ever with 9 staff for 9 participants, first time … there are a lot of firsts here! One of those firsts for us is co-leading a team with someone. So we’re really excited to…
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Happy anniversary. 9 Years. It was a really long day, not the best anniversary yet, that’s for sure. But we’re surrounded by people who care, they found out yesterday and brought a little cake today for the whole school to share. Ever feel like you’re surrounded by really great people? We do. We always have…
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So we’re starting the training program for Titus this Sunday. We’ve been working really hard, along with our team of 7, to make it an excellent experience for all involved. We’ve been praying together, learning about leading Titus teams, preparing for our participants. Our 3, very full weeks of staff preparation are coming to a…
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So lots of our friends often ask us how it is travelling with kids. So I thought we’d do a little bit of a journal of sleeping since leaving Canada: The Flights Depart Calgary at 15:30 9 Hours to Amsterdam – kids sleep about 4 of those (thank you gravol!), Ang 2.5, Ben – zippo!…
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No we didn’t get all dressed up, but we have had a wonderful homecoming!! Our family and friends and church have embraced us with open arms! We have been plagued with a bit of sickness during these 5 weeks in Canada, but being with people we love has made a huge difference and we wouldn’t…
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We graduated our SBS class last week on Friday. On Sunday we flew to the Netherlands where we began a 5 day intensive teacher training seminar with graduates from their own SBS. Well, we’re almost done, but its definitely been a whirlwind. Although we’ve seen glimpses all week long of our participants teaching abilities, tomorrow…
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We are counting down to School of Biblical Studies Graduation. Our students have studied the whole bible, verse by verse, reading it through 5 times. They’ve been writing observations, interpretations, and applications. In other words: What does the text say? What did it mean to the original reader? What does it mean to me? It…
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