First, I want to thank you all for reading this blog. I am always amazed at how many people subscribe to it or visit it consistently. I thank you for staying connected to our lives this way. It means a lot to us!
Well, I honestly can't believe that it is Feb. already. Life seems to be cruising by so quickly. Jan. 20-21, we went up to Mount Vernon for B-Doss's wedding. I sang and MC'd the reception. First CRC MV let me preach that morning as well. After that, Steph was out of town 3 days each of the nexttwo weeks for work related trips (retreat & staff recruiting). So needless to say, we are happy that both of us should be around for awhile. I think we are both ready for things to slow down a bit after I finish up my extended unit CPE at Providence at the end of this month. It has been a great experience and I am excited about working there full time again in Sept. 2007-Aug. 2008. Yet, my schedule is pretty overloaded since I am also taking 5 classes so that I can finish up my degree on time.
This past Sunday too major things happened, Steph and I led worship at the church we have been attending, Southgate Chapel and my Chicago Bear lost the Super Bowl. The previous Friday night, our seminary put on a free valentine's dinner for married students. Now I am Dutch so when I hear free romantic dinner. I am there. An amazing thing happened to us, the seminary had collected gifts from various local business to give away. One of the activities they did was similar to the old Newlywed Game (the couples take turn writing answers down and then their spouse need to try and answer the question correctly). We were excited enough when we made it to the final 4 couples. To our surprise, we won! Our prize? A two night stay at a Shilo Inn. The amazing thing is that we had just talked about how fun it would be to go somewhere for our 6 month anniversary, but didn't feel like we could support it because Steph's financial support was really low this past month. We can go now. It is a Dutchman's favorite word--it is free!
We do have a couple of serious prayer requests for you.
First, please pray that Steph's financial support will pick up. We sent out a support letter this past month. If you didn't get it and would like one, feel free to email me and I can add you to our list.
Second, please pray that YD Adventures Oregon can find summer staff. Steph took on this second responsibility after another staff person left. She is trying to do this and marketing at the same time. It is a lot of work and finding staff is always difficult to do. So please pray that Steph can make good contacts with a number of people and that they will send in applications. Pray also for wisdom when it comes to selecting the staff
