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Launching Team.710

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 greater fruit as we work together. Please pray for us, this team will have 8 full time staff, and our dreams are far greater than what we are capable of! We will begin with 2 weeks of team building; aย time of fun, strategizing, learning and dreaming. We’ll let you know how they go!

team.710 “For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.” Ezra 7:10

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He is officially there.

Little Bingo has been seen on ultrasound, but now officially felt by both Mom and Dad. He is growing and beginning to kick and move. You may notice the pronoun ‘he’. Well for now the doctor said that she thought it was a boy, but it was a few weeks early on the ultrasound to be totally sure. I guess we will have to wait for a few more months before our second ultrasound to really know for sure.

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Sleep Please!

We have tried to miss Jay’s afternoon naptime a few days in a row. It is hard to stay home in the afternoons when you are on vacation and want to go exploring, but after two dinners of a screaming Jay we have decided that we will make afternoon naps a priority! Budapest will just have to be explored in the mornings and evenings.

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Playing Games

‘Your turn Daddy!’ Cassie has discovered the fun of games in all their glory! Learning about cleaning up, losing, and taking turns are all important in the realm of game playing! It is a fun stage…but after many games in a row we are getting excited for when Jay grows up and can play with her :)

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Christmas Fun!

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 to Jesus- Cassie did a dance, and then we talked about the angels that appeared the day that Jesus was born. Then it was present time. Cassie opened up Barbie Bride (for the wedding obsessed girl) and Jay opened up a Hot Wheels Boat (for the transportation obsessed). Then they got one gift to share – a game of memory with cards from the movie Cars (which is the new favorite in the house!- not Cars 2 just the first movie, they haven’t seen number 2 yet).

It is always hard to be away from extended family on Christmas day, but we are thankful for our little growing family. Hard to believe next year we will have three kids on Christmas morning.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Little Drummer Boy

Winnipeg’s Own Sean Quigley – Pretty cool!

(Quoted from the Winnipeg Sun)

And Sean Quigley, the Oak Park High School student who plays all instruments in his video for his rendition of Little Drummer Boy, says he did it only to honour Jesus and his birth some 2,000 years ago.

ย“I guess it comes back to the story of the song ย— just a drummer boy who goes to find Jesus, and has absolutely nothing to give him,ย” Quigley, a 16-year-old in Grade 11, told the Winnipeg Sun on Thursday.

ย“He plays the drum for Jesus, and that makes him so happy. And thatย’s me. Thatย’s why Iย’m doing it.ย”

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“Mommy, Boat…Daddy, Boat…”

I am beginning to think that the term ‘Verbal Processor’ is really just a way of describing someone who talks ALOT! But there is just no better way to describe Jay. Every thought he has is verbalized and repeated over and over until he is acknowledged. Right now he is on a boat kick. Because we have been driving down the coast of rCoatia, we see ALOT of boats, and Jay is fully aware of each one as they pass by. “Mommy, Boat…Daddy, Boat…Joshy (our friend on our road trip with us), Boat…Cassie…” Well you get the picture. But hey, maybe when he is a teenager and doesn’t want to talk as much we will be like “So Jay, what are you thinking?” “Nothing….” :)

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Where Do Babies Come Out?

Here is a conversation that Ben and Cassie had today in the car on our road trip:

“Daddy, do you know how babies come out?”

“Uh… Cassie, it is complicated.”

“No it isn’t Daddy, they come out your bum.”

Laughter erupts from all of us, and the awkward moment passes… :) Count on kids to give you good road trip material!

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The Rest of God

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 our Titus Project students and drove all the way to Budapest. It only took about 14 hours (including a 2 hour border line up). ย The next day we got up early and drive to Croatia where Ben and Josh (our good friend) taught a week on ‘God’s Father Heart’ to a DTS. But officially on Saturday we started our vacation. We drove down the coast of Croatia and have stayed in two cute little villa apartments. Tomorrow we will leave for Italy and then after a few days there back to Budapest. 5 squished in our little car (us + Josh) makes it a great road trip, lots of memories, screaming children, food everywhere! FUN!

But in all of this travelling by car I (Angela) have had a chance to read a lot from this book and am being inspired to really practice the art of rest, not ‘shutting down’ or ‘crashing’ or even ‘amusement’ but real, soul-reviving, spirit-saturating rest. Thanks Bruce for taking the time to send the book!