Summer update

We as a family are doing great. It has been nice to enjoy a slower pace during the semester break. Dennis uses the time to work on grading and also to continue to readjust and improve the Linguistics Course. The Training Center hosted the annual Refresher Course for Missionaries on furlough again this summer. Like the last few years, we together with others were responsible for the Junior high kids. We love those kids and enjoyed providing a program that would allow them to get spiritual nourishment as well as have fun with their peers.

Lukas: ”I worked on improving my walking skills because I will be a Mini Toddler in childcare next semester. I will get to play with about 15 other 1-2 year olds while my Mom works in the office. She will start helping out in childcare once a week though since they are desperate for help in that department.
What I liked most about my first birthday party was that my Grandparents, Uncle Doug, Aunt Julie and Cousin Bethany came. The best birthday gift was the talking vacuum cleaner I got from my Grandparents.
My parents told me that I will be having a brother or sister by the end of January 2008. Yippee!”

In October we will be going back to Oklahoma once more. We are looking forward to getting to know the students better that way and also to learn more about God who walks with us in these unusual living conditions. It always is a special but also stretching time to have only one room as a family to sleep and live in and to share the other rooms (like bathroom, kitchen, dining hall) with everybody else for 6 weeks. Some of you know that Lukas is not a good sleeper and wakes up easily. We hope all the new noises won’t keep him (and then us) from getting enough sleep.