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Praise

Praise

above:  The kiddos asleep on the way home from a late night meeting.  They’ve been great sports.  We pack jammas along, and they sleep in late the next morning.  🙂 It’s fun meeting neat people who love the Lord and are about His kingdom business.  And it’s fun sharing what is on our hearts and […]
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Home Sweet Stuga

Home Sweet Stuga

stuga: Swedish for “cottage” – a modest, cozy dwelling. can refer to a vacation or summer home. When we refer to “The Stuga”, we mean the cozy little A-frame with a view of the Mollalla river off the back deck. And we feel very blessed to be settled here with this as our jumping-off point […]
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Christmas with the Studtmanns

Christmas with the Studtmanns

To anyone who misses the kiddos’ bright eyed faces…and to anyone who misses the Studtmann faces too. 🙂 Enjoy. 2011 Christmas Thoughts  (from Danica’s journal) When Karina was born, it was only barely more than a month before Christmas. She was born at home in our living room. I remember Jevon lighting the candles in […]
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Oklahoma Pics

Oklahoma Pics

Above: My language helper, Louise, (middle), my language partner, Julie (left), and Cali and I at an appreciation dinner we put on for all of our Cherokee language helpers. Below: A Friday afternoon after language session – Jevon cutting a rotisserie chicken for a picnic in Louise’s backyard.  And that is my mom in the […]
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He’s here!

He’s here!

Isaiah Doran Rich We finally get to meet our baby brother! Cali and Isaiah Karina and Isaiah Yawn 🙂 Happy Birthday from Cedar Tree Baptist Church “When he’s grown, you tell that boy ‘You was born in Indian country!’ “ Language Session with a baby. Julie, my partner, and Louise, our language helper, came to […]
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Trip Pictures

Trip Pictures

13 hours and still smiling! 13 hours and still awake! Thank you, “Miss Babe” for lunch!  🙂 God helped us find a place with a play area! The new “fort” bedroom that Daddy and the other guys built for them! And a much-deserved resting place for the driver! We are all settled in here.  Hope […]
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Oklahoma here we come!

Oklahoma here we come!

In five more days we’ll be on our way to Oklahoma for the Linguistics Practicum.  Danica and another student will be meeting together with a language helper and analyzing the Cherokee language.  This is a practice exercise in “the real thing”, under the supervision of our linguistics teacher from MTC. If you’ve seen us lately, […]
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We’re Here! (in Wisconsin)

We’re Here! (in Wisconsin)

We will be in Eau Claire, WI from now until August 11. If you live anywhere in the same state (or only slightly across the borders), and If you want to hear more about what we’ve been doing these past 2 years and about our future plans for ministry in Brazil, WE WOULD LOVE TO […]
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Almost done

Almost done

We are into the last week of school!  And you should see our house!  Actually maybe it is better that you NOT see our house!  It is a wreck, as we have been pulling things off of walls and shelves, and out of drawers and cupboards.  Every night a pile goes away (to the mission […]
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