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Hello praying friends and family!! Can you believe summer is OVER?! These past few months have felt like a constant stream of activity, and as we look back, we are again reminded of God’s grace in the details of our lives! Our summer began here in Missouri with a month of Summer School for Brice. […]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Hello to our praying friends!! We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas celebrating our Savior’s birth! Our Christmas break was FULL of fun, family, friends, food, and fellowship 🙂 My (Sarah’s) family came here to Missouri to spend several days together, and within hours of their departure, […]

Thankful. Grateful. Blessed.  Yes, ’tis the season. The season to reflect on giving thanks for all we’ve been given, and to prepare our hearts and our lives for the holiday season! Looking back at this year in our lives, many images come to mind. Our move to Missouri in early January, marking the official beginning […]

The best updates, I’ve often felt, are written after the battle. When the fires have died down, when perspective is clearer and the threat has backed down. When discouragement and frustration are spoken of in the past tense, and when the sunrise of victory can be seen in the morning sky. And, alas, I have […]

Hello again from the Deals! This past month has brought with it lots of new routines for our family, including Fall Semester of classes here at the Missionary Training Center and the first weeks of Dogwood Elementary for Brice and Oak Ridge Intermediate for Braden. With new routines have come new friendships, and we praise […]

Our last update was about waiting, and the frustration we have felt in the unrelenting questions and uncertainties regarding Shad’s continuing seizures. In the waiting, we have indeed questioned God. Questioned why He has allowed epilepsy– uncontrolled and complex epilepsy at that– to enter our world and set up camp in our daily lives. Questioned […]