Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Car trouble

Hello dear praying friends.

Well, we took a few days off to visit the mountains while our children were off for spring break. On our way back out of the mountains our engine ceased up. We waited on the side of a busy highway for 2 hours before we were able to get a tow. We praise the Lord for the safety of being able to maneuver the car safely off the highway to the roadside and then while we waited on a 75 mph highway. We are now waiting to find out how soon they can repair the car. Please pray for us as we do not have $4,000 dollars to replace the engine. There is no way we can replace the vehicle for this amount and we really depend on the car to get around in the snow of the mountains.

Thanks for your prayers, Tim and family

Friday, March 19, 2010

Greetings everyone.


Life continues to press forward non-stop. Last week Tim had the opportunity to run a pilot orientation with the newly developed program. We served two families who have now been appointed to France. The time together was incredibly encouraging and the couples were very positive about the new format. Praise the Lord.


Please pray for us as we continue to work on developing the orientation process. Tim and a co-worker are about to launch a 6 week online course as well, designed to help our candidates become familiar with GEM before the arrive for orientation. Each week includes a 5 minute video and a discussion forum.


Beginning with the launch of the online course we begin a season of processing applications, inviting individuals and running a number of orientations. We will have two orientations running consecutively end of May and into the first week of June, another in August and another in end of October. Mean while we will be starting up the online class every couple of months.


Tim will be taking a few days off next week to spend it with the family while the kids are on spring break. We’re all looking forward to a little down time.


Tim’s achillies finally healed again and then the whole family got the respitory flu that was going around. Jennifer had it for 6 weeks and did two rounds of antibiotics. But, thankfully, we’ve all healed in the mean time.


Jennifer is connecting with a lot of school moms and has made some good contacts into the home school groups here, where she may be able to serve with her music. Please pray for us as we seek out the ministries God would have us engage in. We long to connect with unbelievers and bring the light of the Lord to them.


The kids are doing extremely well and we thank you for your continued prayers for them. We’ve heard a couple of times that they miss Austria, but their transition has been better than textbook.


We do appreciate your continued prayers.


From our family to yours, Tim, Jennifer, Connor, Katya and Marika J