Hello and greetings!
This is overdue and comes with apologies...life has happened! And we are enjoying it so much...our time in Switzerland was rich and priceless...met with so many different people, spent much time with family, ate lots of chocolate and fondue, and really loved the cold weather.
As you may remember, upon arriving in the US, we went immediately to Colorado Springs for the Family Gathering with other furloughing missionaries of The Navigators...what an amazing program! We could go on and on about how well we were taken care of and how many opportunities made possible to help us (nutritionists, physical therapists, counsellors, free book tables, home school forums, and on and on) but we won't. Suffice it to say that we were incredibly blessed and truly feel refreshed and empowered after those 9 days. The kids had a super time connecting with other MK's (missionary kids) and made some fun friendships. We spent a day white water rafting in very chilly water (50 degrees) but made great memories.
We have just returned from another super experience. Together with my older brother and his family (here on vacation from China), my younger brother and his wife, my parents and my 89 year-old grandma, we went on a 4-day Disney Cruise in the Caribbean...WOW! We had not been all together for 3 years and we just laughed and laughed so much. God gave us these special days to talk, catch up, giggle and play together...what a gift...We even go to snorkel with and feed stingrays, and saw the Flying Dutchman ship from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean." Memories galore.
We are heading to the beach on Friday for a week with my younger brother and my parents...should be very relaxing. This is our last break before we hit the circuit of churches and supporters and we are really trying to rest up well.
This week, the youth team in Cameroon is having a youth camp...with about 50 young people in attendance!! Here is a small list of prayer requests from Wilson, who is serving as the camp director together with Jeanne-Marthe:
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Please do pray:
- that the students will meet with God during this Camp
- that students will see the need to reach out to thier friends with the Gospel fearlessly
- that the students will develop the skill of sharing the gospel through thier personal salvation testimonies.
- that the leaders will be as clear as posible in the presentations so that the students may not misunderstand any important point
- that emerging student leaders will be engaged in helping the young ones grow.
- that the inter-relationship among students be healthy
- that the leaders will co-opperate seriously to see that God alone is Uplifted during this Camp.
Please also Pray
- that the seeds that will be sown during this Camp will fall on good soil so that it will produce good fruit in its season.
- that activites will be purposeful and Christ-centered.
- we need wisdom to handle incidents and other such things
- we need wisdom in trying to handle the personal problems that some students may have in thier homes, schools, etc concerning thier personal life in Christ and otherwise. The students need to trust us enough to let us know some of these details. pray then that they be open enough
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Thank you for joining us in prayer for these leaders and youth until Saturday. It seems like they have a super week planned.
blessings and hugs to you! We look forward to seeing you and have enjoyed so many fun reunions already in our few weeks here. Have a great week.