A New Family Picture

Dear everybody,

So today we just decided to DO IT. Do what? Get that dreaded family picture taken. We have been planning on doing this for a while now, but it never seems to be the right timing. Either one of the kids fell and has a huge scrape accross their face, or at least one of them is not in a smiling mood.

After church today, while we were all still looking put together and clean, we set up the camera and got that chore taken care of. I hope you like the result.

Liz

PS: We changed the color to black and white because we needed it that way for a mission annual report.

Dear everybody,

So it's been a month since I have posted on this blog of ours. I wish I had an excuse but I don't. If I were to claim some reasons for not writing, here would be some of them:

1) Our busy time has begun: We are hosting churches over the weekends while finishing up the last few projects on our "to-do" list before the summer rush starts in January.

2) I am half way through my pregnancy: which means I am either overly tired or trying to catch up on some rest. I have been enjoying a pregnancy where my kids are older and a little more independent. They have helped around the house but still there are many needs that only Mom can meet.

3) Teaching end of the year Bible studies: my ladies Bible study in Lican ended and thanks to God's working in hearts, it ended well. I am so pleased to have been His instrument in teaching these past few months. It took many hours of preparation and studying the Bible in Spanish! Not only did I teach the Lican Bible study but also the end of year retreat for the Liquine ladies. I don't know what is more nerve racking: teaching a group of ladies you have gotten to know over the course of a few months and think you should be doing better in Spanish or teaching a group of new ladies who don't know anything about you! But God is faithful and present in time of need. The words flowed and when they didn't, the ladies helped out! It was a blessing.

4) Work on camp and feeding extra people: Because we are attempting to finish projects, we have asked for more help. Victor and his son, Dan, have come to help. They are renovating a house that their family will live in during the summer on camp. While they worked on their kitchen, I fixed lunch and dinner for them. The last three months we have had very few days with just 5 people at the dinner table.

I could give many more reasons that would equaly fill you in on my lack of time lately to write but I did want to apologize to those who do follow the blog regularly.

Thank you for your prayers and interest in our family and ministry. We rely on every one of them!

Liz