4 Minutes on the Road

February 20, 2012

We had a super Sunday. Check out this snippit into our lives. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrubzK4nC6M Please pray for John. He is a hitch-hiker who rode with us to the closest town. Pray that he arrives safely at the destination God has for him, and also pray that God will give him understanding as he reads his Bible […]

Praise

January 29, 2012

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 […]

Home Sweet Stuga

December 31, 2011

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 […]

Christmas with the Studtmanns

December 31, 2011

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 […]

Oklahoma Pics

October 27, 2011

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 […]

We are all fine!

February 20, 2011

By now most of you have gotten our newsletter by mail, so we will avoid redundancy here. We are all doing well. Each morning we have to muster a bit of courage to tackle the day, with Jevon putting in his hours as a tech intern, Danica grappling with linguistics puzzles, and morning sickness […]

We made it safe back to mission school!

August 20, 2010

We made it back safe and sound. Our overloaded car (Ebenezar) is resting in the quiet parking lot by our fourplex, emptied and satisfied with a good days work. The clock at the bank gave us a triple digit number for temp, so that was a little foreboding, but we had good eager brothers make […]

What’s an Ebenezer anyhoo?!

May 9, 2010

Our Cali is extremely angry and defiant these days, and we’re not sure if it’s because we’re leaving “home” again soon and she’s an emotional mess, or if it’s just because she’s a stubborn child of Adam. Either way, it’s pretty much consuming our days. There’s nothing like a ballistic 2 year old to put […]

Summer at our Heels

April 29, 2010

A Word on Motivation 9:40 am, Thursday. Culture and Language Aquisition Methodology Class. Our instructor was running us through our upcoming homework assignments. “Oh,” he added, “and there’s a checksheet to mark off your reading assignments when you finish them. So,” he said wryly, “if you don’t care if people hear the gospel, you can […]