Dear friends and family;<\/p>\n
It hasn’t been too long since our last update, but we have some new developments and would love your prayers for us during the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
On the ministry front:\u00a0 One of the families on our team is headed back into the tribe today along with one of the young men who came out for our regional missions conference and some small engine repair training.\u00a0 Please pray for their traveling mercies.\u00a0 They will be on boats and in transit for the next week.\u00a0 They are leaving their 12 year old son here in town to go to school, but are blessed to have his aunt and uncle living with him keeping an eye out for him.\u00a0 This is a real answer to prayer for them.<\/p>\n
I (Pam) am gearing up for school to start, I will have two extra kids this year so we have been spending alot of time planning and rearranging and figuring out how we are going to fit 6 desks and chairs in the little space (half of our family room) that we use for school.\u00a0 It will be tight, and eventually we hope to add on a classroom, but for now we will make it work.\u00a0 Please pray for the kids and I as we start school the 2nd week in August.\u00a0 I will have 6 students in 5 different grades, so I am going to be very busy along with being a wife and mom \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Caleb had his second birthday last week!\u00a0 He is a healthy 32 pounds.\u00a0 He is talking up a storm too, starting to put phrases together, in three languages.\u00a0 I feel so blessed.\u00a0 I know I should “get over it” but every little milestone he crosses I just praise God for what He has brought him through.\u00a0 That image of him lying in the hospital with Doctors working to get his heart started and get him breathing again are forever burned into my mind, and it somehow makes him sweeter and cuter than he already is :-).\u00a0 I included a few pictures below of Caleb and Katie on the boat Greg made for Caleb for his birthday, and of Caleb and his birthday cake.\u00a0 Please don’t laugh at the cake.\u00a0 Remember it is very hot and “melty” here, and there is no such thing as ready-made frosting or icing!<\/p>\n
We finished painting the inside of our house, along with staining all the windows, doors and ceilings!\u00a0 It was a huge job but it looks so bright and fresh in here.\u00a0 The kids are enjoying their new “themed” rooms.\u00a0 Things seem to snowball when you are working on finishing a house, and Greg has been more than patient when he hears the words, “We might as well do . . . . while we are at it”\u00a0 But I think we are all ready for a break now\u0010!<\/p>\n
Now for the main reason I am writing this little update!\u00a0 It is time again for our visa renewals.\u00a0 Greg will be getting a 5 year renewal this time, and the rest of us will be getting a one year renewal. This means we will all have to take a trip to the center of the island we are on in order to process our paperwork.\u00a0 This is a LONG, grueling 3 day trip by car.\u00a0 We are trying to think of it as a road trip, mini-vacation, since we haven’t done much in the way of vacation lately, but the truth is I am scared to death of the thought of 5 whiny, tired, car sick kids stuck in the car for 3 days of narrow, windy,\u00a0 less that ideal roads (with no rest areas, playgrounds, and McDonalds to break up the trip).\u00a0 So pray for us if the Lord brings us to mind.\u00a0 (Especially that mommy can keep a positive out look on things, and we can face this as an adventure rather than a trial \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 But also that the kids won’t get carsick.\u00a0 Nate, especially, gets car sick just driving into town.\u00a0 We should be gone about two weeks (a week of travel and a week there doing paperwork.)\u00a0 Please also pray for the finances for this trip, along with the expenses of renewing 7 visas.\u00a0 Greg’s will be like paying for 5 years of visa’s all at once!<\/p>\n
Thanks you so much for taking the time to read this update, and for continuing to hold us up in prayer.\u00a0 We appreciate each of you so much, your friendship, support, and especially your prayers!<\/p>\n
In Him;
\nGreg and Pam Berglund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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