Breaking a Long Silence (with a flood!)

It’s been a long time since you’ve heard from me on this blog… According to the time stamp on my last post, over four months.  It doesn’t seem that long to me.  For us, the time between April and October whizzed by.  It was filled with ministry opportunities, Work & Witness teams, teaching and preaching engagements, thanksgiving celebrations, and visits from friends and family.   So, I want to give you a brief overview of what we did this summer.  Rather than long text.  I’m going to break it up by month into smaller posts and include pictures.  In many of these posts, you will find thoughts that I jotted down in the brief in between moments this summer, along with my reflections from today.

So… stop reading this post.

Go read “Heading East” and “Summer”

Then… come back to this post to find out what we are doing now.

Nope… don’t scroll down yet.  Go read about what we’ve been up to!!!

And… you’re back!

Anna Chase, a friend from Oregon, has joined us here in Thailand for a bit.  Anna is living with us and experiencing missionary life, both the fun and exciting, and the dull day to day business of it, as a part of her senior year in high school.

Pray that Anna’s time here will be fruitful and that God will speak to her and form her through this experience.  Pray that we will be a blessing to Anna.

Currently we are working on a variety of things.  I (Jeni) am working on developing an English Language program for SEANBC.  This involves a lot of curriculum and method research and many collaboration meetings.  We hope to begin classes in January.

Pray that God will give us wisdom and that we will have a strong start.  Pray also that God will bring us teachers.  Pray that our teaching will be a blessing and that we will keep our focus on what God wants to do through us and through this program.

Kevin is currently doing a lot of planning.  Planning for the upcoming field meeting, planning for future Work & Witness trips (the next group comes in January), and planning for our time on home assignment.  He also continues to teach and preach when he is asked.

Pray that Kevin will have wisdom, vision, excitement and stamina as he helps our FSC and plans for the future.  Pray he will have a clear understanding of what he needs to do.

Caleb is homeschooling for his Senior year.  He is taking classes through a virtual academy.  We decided not to go back to ICS this coming year because our travel schedule is crazy and we weren’t sure how to work it all out with him in school.  Our daughter’s graduation from NNU also falls during the final month of the ICS school year.  We don’t want to miss it, but it would have been really hard for him to miss school during that time.  So, we are taking home assignment in March and April and will finish our time in the States celebrating the completion of one phase of Lydia’s life and the start of another.

Pray that Caleb will stay caught up in school, that he will do well and finish strong.  

Please pray that we will use the next four to five months wisely.  That we will make the most of our time here before heading to the States for home assignment.

Please continue to pray for our language studies.  Kevin is coming along very well!  I’m a little slower.  Pray that we will be a blessing to the people we meet and work with.  Pray that God will use us as He sees fit and that we won’t get in the way.

Well, that’s it.  That’s what we’ve been up to since I last posted.  I’m praying for you all, for the Church in the U.S., for the unity of believers, for the work of Christ that is being done every day.  I’m praying that God will fill you all with His love and that, as you live as Kingdom people, His love will overflow and become a great flood that overwhelms our homes, neighborhoods, cities, and nation, so that the whole world knows the love of our King.