Author: Eric and Cherie Daum

Time travel, New beginnings, and Oleh-Oleh!

Time travel, New beginnings, and Oleh-Oleh!

Early this May we had a great trip visiting Cherie’s parents in Paraguay for a couple of weeks and also were able to attend Cherie’s brother’s wedding. Traveling 13 time zones is pretty surreal, our longest flight left Sydney, Australia at noon on the 7th, we flew across the pacific ocean and landed in Santiago, […]
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March 2019

March 2019

As I was trying to think of how to communicate how life has been for us, I came across this picture and thought it described it quite accurately. Both Eric and I have felt exhausted and drained from the steady week after week putting in the hours of language study. Sometimes it seems to be […]
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February 2019

February 2019

I(Eric) have heard about the deep freeze happening in the States, and although we have only been here for about six months, I really feel adjusted to the temperatures here, when it drops below seventy-five it is almost noticeably chilly, and I am not sure how long I would survive anymore in such a frigid […]
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Merry Christmas from Asia Pacific!!!

Merry Christmas from Asia Pacific!!!

With the days being hot and humid and the Azan (call to prayer) ringing in our ears constantly, it is hard to feel like Christmas time has arrived. Our days have been filled with language sessions, weddings, trips to the city for paperwork, and our attempts to get our laptop fixed. I (Cherie) feel like […]
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October 2018 Update

October 2018 Update

We have been here for 3 months officially and rainy season has begun. Language learning has been going well, although it does seem to be slowing down a little bit these last few weeks. Praise the Lord we are still progressing and able to continue learning and pressing on. Here is a cute picture of […]
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September Update

September Update

To each of our friends and family. Thank you for your prayers and support. We have officially been here for two months, and we have been hard at work learning the national language. We have uploaded into our brains over 1000 new words. Most days our minds have reached the point of exhaustion as far […]
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Are we there yet?

Are we there yet?

Hello everyone, We have arrived here in Asia Pacific. We made it through the 40 hour trip and have moved into our house in town. We have been here for almost two weeks now and we have finally adjusted to the time change (11 hours ahead.) We have had all kinds of experiences with this […]
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April Update

April Update

We made it to 60% of our needed support and our VISA process will be able to begin this week! We are so proud of our God and how He has made this happen. The next steps for us will be to continue raising up partners until our support is at 75% and to continue […]
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March Madness in Michigan

March Madness in Michigan

Hello everyone, We are back from our trip and we are happy to be what feels like home in Columbus MI. There were many churches and individuals who were interested in partnering with our ministry and we feel extremely blessed by God’s faithfulness to us. Our official percentage of support has not been raised much, […]
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