Hi everyone! Yes, we are alive and well although the internet has not been working well so we haven’t posted for a while. We have had an easy couple weeks here with all the kids out of school and the fun times with Christmas and new years! Today is Friday and I have been in the clinic a couple days this week now and now it’s closed for the weekend. BIG NEWS! KIRA has a new potty and made the big decision today to pee on it and earn herself a sucker! I am happy now to know she totally understands but now realize my freedom is a little more limited because now I need to be faithful in training her! Way to go Kira!
On the adoption front, we are still plugging away and thank you for praying! We are ‘preparing our fields’ for the ‘rain’ we have been praying for. That is, planning by faith to go home with our girls but recognizing that they may stay here for a bit after we leave and we will deal with that then. Regardless, we know that God is good all the time and that He knows best.
We are heading to Jacmel on Sunday! We will live with our girls and get to be a part of what God is doing in Jacmel through YWAM! God has brought a new friend into our lives ( nothing is coincident ) and he is the one who runs the YWAM base in Jacmel! Small world! So we head out to rent the main floor of this house his family is moving into. There is a team coming soon after for 10 days so we are looking forward to seeing what’s goin’ on! Lubenz has invited us to join them where God is working. “Hey, we’re all about ministry!” he said and it’s kinda cool to see his excitement for the Lord and his heart for evangelism.
A BIG THANK YOU goes out to friends and family for your thoughts, prayers and even Christmas presents!!! We were very pleasantly surprised to find that Gloria Daley had a wack of Christmas cards for us from you guys! You are great! It was neat to put those cards on my rough little wooden shelf and think about the fact that you guys thought about us! What a blessing.
We are freezing today and wish we had brought jackets! It’s about 22 degrees and that is chilly for us here! Almost 50 degrees difference from what I hear at times back in Vanderhoof! The wind is crazy today and I am wishing there was a way to bolt the shutters on our windows closed because they slam open and shut at night and wake us up! Being on a second story floor makes it hard.
We are sad to be leaving but excited to see what the next part of this adventure holds! The kids have been asking us “when you go?” and they are sad too. It’s hard to believe we are almost to the half way point and also how attached one can feel to a place and to the people there in such a relatively short amount of time. To think that before we know it we will be leaving again, another place, new friends, something familiar. For now we look forward to being together as one BIG happy family (5 kids!! Wow…still sounds crazy to me) and looking forward to Grandma and Grandpa Dyck visiting in Feb and then Andrew and Jamie!! Can’t wait to see you guys! Take care everyone! We love you! Sheldon and Kim and crew.
On the adoption front, we are still plugging away and thank you for praying! We are ‘preparing our fields’ for the ‘rain’ we have been praying for. That is, planning by faith to go home with our girls but recognizing that they may stay here for a bit after we leave and we will deal with that then. Regardless, we know that God is good all the time and that He knows best.
We are heading to Jacmel on Sunday! We will live with our girls and get to be a part of what God is doing in Jacmel through YWAM! God has brought a new friend into our lives ( nothing is coincident ) and he is the one who runs the YWAM base in Jacmel! Small world! So we head out to rent the main floor of this house his family is moving into. There is a team coming soon after for 10 days so we are looking forward to seeing what’s goin’ on! Lubenz has invited us to join them where God is working. “Hey, we’re all about ministry!” he said and it’s kinda cool to see his excitement for the Lord and his heart for evangelism.
A BIG THANK YOU goes out to friends and family for your thoughts, prayers and even Christmas presents!!! We were very pleasantly surprised to find that Gloria Daley had a wack of Christmas cards for us from you guys! You are great! It was neat to put those cards on my rough little wooden shelf and think about the fact that you guys thought about us! What a blessing.
We are freezing today and wish we had brought jackets! It’s about 22 degrees and that is chilly for us here! Almost 50 degrees difference from what I hear at times back in Vanderhoof! The wind is crazy today and I am wishing there was a way to bolt the shutters on our windows closed because they slam open and shut at night and wake us up! Being on a second story floor makes it hard.
We are sad to be leaving but excited to see what the next part of this adventure holds! The kids have been asking us “when you go?” and they are sad too. It’s hard to believe we are almost to the half way point and also how attached one can feel to a place and to the people there in such a relatively short amount of time. To think that before we know it we will be leaving again, another place, new friends, something familiar. For now we look forward to being together as one BIG happy family (5 kids!! Wow…still sounds crazy to me) and looking forward to Grandma and Grandpa Dyck visiting in Feb and then Andrew and Jamie!! Can’t wait to see you guys! Take care everyone! We love you! Sheldon and Kim and crew.
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