Windows

Yesterday was a huge success.  Thanks for your prayers.  The work began at a little after 8am and besides Joel, four other guys came out to help us install the windows.  By about 3 pm, 8 of the 18 windows were installed and they look wonderful!  Thank you Matt Cates, Matt Burch, Jeff Terrell, and Tom Demers.  Jolene and I were even able to get a small kitchen project done as we ended up not having any other kids to look after other than Jack and Owen. Overall, the day went really well and Joel now feels pretty confident to keep working on the job himself.  Tomorrow another friend will be here to help him for a few hours in the morning while the boys and I are out.  Hopefully by the end of the week, he will be able to have all the windows installed.

 

This next weekend both Joel's sister Bekah and his brother Jon will be here visiting.  We are excited to see them after over a year!  They will be able to see their newest nephew and also to see Jack again and hear him say Auntie Bekah and Mon Oncle (a funny name Joel and Jon are using for Uncle Jon).  Jack is now counting to 20 in English and 10 in Indonesian and says a whole smattering of things!!  It should be a fun weekend.

 

Coming Soon:

In the next few days, I hope to write a few posts on our future work and partners in Papua (formerly Iran Jaya), Indonesia.  Stay tuned to see what life will look like for us and the amazing folks we will have the opportunity to serve alonside in Indonesia.  You'll also hopefully get a better understanding of how we fit in to the ministry of tribal work there and begin to learn about the tribal groups NTM is ministering in there.  Our hope is still to return in August pending all the paperwork comes through for Owen and then visas for Jack, Owen and I are approved quickly.  We had a good reminder today through the experience of some other missionary friends, that even our visas are in God's hands and nothing is guaranteed to go as we expect!  All the more reason to be praying diligently that God will work things out in His way as to what is best in the big picture and that we will be trusting in Him and not our own ideas!