THE HARVEYS

Here is a picture of the Harveys. Joe is an FP doc who with his wife and kids have been in the Republic of Congo. They have a blog at www.congoharveys.blogspot.com. They also have a website at www.congoharveys.org Their story is actually pretty cool. We met them when we were on a short term mission trip in Bongolo, Gabon and have kept in touch with them ever since. Please keep them in your prayers as well.

Mission planning update

Anna and I feel very strongly God is leading us to the "Republic of Congo". Above is a picture of the hospital in Impfondo. YOu can see a larger view by just double clicking on the pict.
Now what organization?????? It will probably still be with the C&MA. We spoke with the director of the International Fellowship of Alliance Professionals (IFAP) associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) (www.cmalliance.org). Essentially although we still have to raise our own support, we will be affiliated with the C&MA and will be able to continue to partner with the churches that we've attended the past 8-10 years.

The process is now raising prayer partners who are willing to support our endeavor and to finish our official app with IFAP. Even thought he director of IFAP was very encouraging , we still need to meet with what amounts to an ordination board. Hopefully we can get this done in the next 2-3 weeks. We then will know more about our actual needs and timeline.

Currently Anna and I hope to be in some sort of language training by the beginning of 2008, and then in the Congo by the beginning of 2009. This means I will finish working at the IHS site here in Browning the beginning of Dec 07.

Our language training will be done most likely in Quebec. at a French WOrd of LIfe Bible College (parole de vie, www.pdv.org), but there are logistics to work our (child care, schooling, lodging etc).

Thanks again for reading the post and for those who are praying for us.

At the Cabin

We went to Todd's cabin on the Missouri again on Sat, and returned Mon. Kathleen was able to go with us. I have more picture, but I am having trouble uploading them. Maybe tomorrow.

Softball Game

Last night we went to Stephen's softball game. He is on the hospital team in the local league. The kids had fun cheering him on. His team won!

VBS- Avalanche Ranch

The theme for this week was Avalanche Ranch. In the top picture Ian is making a craft to represent the Israelites crossing the Jordan river. They you can tell that the grass on one side of the river is yellow, and the other side is green. He said that they only watered the grass on one side. The cheerios represent the 12 stones that they took out of the river and built a memorial to the Lord.

Isabelle was in the preschool class which stayed in one room for their story, games and crafts. They joined the other kids for the opening, closing and snack time. In these pictures, they are doing some songs with motions. These pictures are from "This little light of mine" and "Joshua fought the battle of Jericho." They all seemed to really enjoy their time.

Caleb enjoyed the falling down part of the Joshua song. During VBS I entertained him and another baby 2 months younger. He enjoyed having someone his size to play with for awhile.

On the last day I had the three boys wear matching shirts. I forgot to take the camera with us to Cut Bank, so I didn't get any more VBS pictures. But I had them pose in the yard in their shirts. They really liked the idea of all having the same shirt, and they were pretty cute together.

At the end of the day

The kids were all worn out yesterday. Everyone but Ian fell asleep in the car going to and from VBS. These pictures are from the evening. They got to watch a Veggietales right before bed.

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Our week is going well. I need to take more pictures of the kids, and upload them.
They have all been enjoying VBS. The theme this year is a western one.
We have only had one accident, where Jacob came in dripping blood. I had visions of rushing him to the ER, before I got him cleaned up and realized that he had torn his fingernail, just a little further down than you would cut it. All of the blood made it seem worse than it was.
Hopefully, we will survive the rest of the week with no further mishaps.

trial run #3

here goes again. This was the third try for me to get this ppt embedded on our site. I will play around some more with it. THe info itself is esoteric but i am sure my mom (Doris) will find it interesting:) I am trying get this organized so I can post Congo info easier

Sunday Morning

Five children, and we made it to church early! Now that is impressive! Don't they look so cute all dressed up? Caleb loves having his picture taken. After we took the pictures of all five kids together, he kept wanting to take more.

Superheros and more

Friday we went to Whitefish for eye appointments. Then we met Emmy and her kids in the park for a picnic. I didn't get a picture of Simon, their 2 week old, but he is adorable. The kids had fun playing on the playground together. It was a beautiful day to be outside.

These pictures are from later in the evening. The kids all dressed up in different costumes. By the time we found "spiderman's" mask, Isabelle was tired of her costume and mask. We spent one night in Kalispell, and Keith and Jacob came back to Browning with us to spent the week.

Little Princess

On Friday, Isabelle received her birthday package from Sarah. She was so excited about her princess dress. She wore it constantly the rest of the day. (I made her take it off to eat and go outside.) She even wanted to wear it to church this morning, but I didn't let her.

Camping

Stephen and Ian went backpacking yesterday. They hiked five miles to Upper Two Medicine Lake, and camped at the campground there. They just spent one night, and came back. They were able to catch a ride on the boat on the way back, which cut down on their hiking. The highlights for Ian were seeing a bear, and seeing a snake. It doesn't get much better than that for a seven year old boy.

We are never at a loss for playmates at our house. The first picture is a group of kids who were playing in our yard all morning. We were babysitting Kathleen (the one in the light green shirt.) The rest were just over visiting. It worked out well, because everyone had someone around their size to play with.
Kathleen spent all day on Friday with us, and then went home with her dad for about 2 hrs, and came back to spend the weekend. Isabelle has been having a great time with her. Ian and Stephen were camping, so it was fun for Isabelle to have a friend over.