Moving In!!!

Dear Friends and Family,

This is just a short update to let you know that the time has finally come to move into our house with the Ga'dang people!!! This is very exciting and very scary all at the same time. There is still a lot to do on the house but we feel that we can live in it while Chuck works on it.

Please pray for us tomorrow as we hike into the village. It has been very rainy here and this makes the trail very slippery and muddy. It will not be an easy hike. It looks like the kids will have to walk some if not all the way too. This means Chuck is carrying Sophia, now weighing in at 30 lbs and I will carry Jenna, now over 15 lbs. This will not be an easy task for us. Pray pray for us.

I would normally send out an email to everyone about what we are doing but my mailing list in on my computer in Manila, at the repair shop. So please share this information with everyone that knows us!!!

Thanks so much for your prayers.

Shannon for us all

Born again

I’d like to announce the birth of another child into our family, our spiritual family that is.  For some time now, we’ve had a pretty good idea that Charlotte was saved.  More recently, both Shannon and I have seen evidence of that in her actions and what she says, particularly when we study the Bible together as a family.  The other evening Shannon took the time to sit with Charlotte and ask her some questions about what she believes.  It was obvious where Charlotte stands as she shared with Shannon and later with me about how she believes that Jesus died on the the cross to pay the price for her sins.  She told us that she knows she can’t get to heaven because of her own good works, only by believing that what Jesus did is good enough.  This is exciting for us as parents, as now 3 of our children have expressed their faith in Him.  If as a missionary and a dad I never get to see any others come to know Christ as their Saviour, that’s ok.  He has allowed us the opportunity to bring the ones closest to us to Him.  That’s enough for me.

by Dad

We worked all day…

As you know, we recently had a work team come from the U.K. to help us work on our house.  The goal for the 2 weeks they were here was to get the house ready for us to move into it in August.  We were able to accomplish that and then some.  I have to admit that at first I was a little sceptical about the proposed skill level of most of this crew.  The Lord quickly reminded me though that He more often than not chooses to use those who are not ‘skilled’ at what they do.  This way He can be readily glorified as He should be for the things He accomplishes through us.  Within the context of this work team, there were 12 of them, 6 guys and 6 girls.  1 was an experienced carpenter, 3 had a little knowledge of it, and the rest were simply willing to try and learn.  That’s really all we needed.  Everyone worked hard, learning how to swing hammers, read tape measures, and use power tools (without major injuries even!) to get the job done.  I couldn’t have asked for more, so thank you to everyone on the U.K. Summit Team of 2010 who came to help us.