Before and After

Before Summer at Running Eagle Falls




After Summer

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.