A Hopefully Not Too Long Update of the Last 5 Months

Many changes have occurred since we returned home the end of December. Within the first 4 weeks home:

- the senior pastor was caught in sin and has been forced to resign

- Steve was made an elder

- Steve is acting Dean of Administration at the seminary

- we inherited the former pastors home Bible study

- Steve has been given more classes to teach at the seminary

- Steve is preaching more at church

- we found out we need to raise $1000/month more before our new/approved budget kicks in

- Karen has started singing with the worship team at church 2/3 of the time

- David Harris, a 19 year old pastor’s kid from New York came to live with us until end of July

In March we had back to back visitors from the States. Pastor Ted Bigelow (and his 16 year old son Dan) from Grace Church in Connecticut came for 2 weeks. Daniel is actually still with us – staying until mid June. When Pastor Ted left, Pastor Joe from Kansas came for 2 weeks. It was a very blessed, busy time.

Kimberly was able to come home for a visit, arriving in late April. We are SO thankful that God has allowed her to come home for a bit. She and Timothy will be returning to the States the end of July.

Life is very crazy with Steve’s increased responsibilities and with all the kids in the house. It has been a challenging, blessed time.

Timothy, David, and Dan left this morning to go to Mozambique for a short term mission with Samaria Mission. Timothy and David weren’t allowed to cross the border because of improper papers (the Office of Home Affairs gave them wrong information). They will return to Polokwane on Sunday. Kimberly will be going into Mozambique on Sunday along with a group from Oklahoma, meeting up with Dan and other Samaria Mission staff.

We are in the middle of finals here at the seminary, and next week is the Shepherds Conference.

Some praises:

- Kimberly is home!

- lots of opportunities the last few months for ministry

Some Prayer Requests:

- God would use us greatly

- God’s provision (things are extremely tight)

- that Timothy & David’s Visas will come through soon so that they can go into Mozambique next week with the 4th year seminary students

- that God would provide for Stephen to come home for a visit in July; one of his best friends is getting married (also we miss him terribly)

Enough has happened in the last 5 months to write a book, but I won’t subject you all to that. God is good, and we are happy to be home.

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