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Outdoor Education 2015

Outdoor Education 2015

This week begins the week of Outdoor Education for our middle school students. Walt has been very busy with planning this week since last quarter. It has been especially trying this year as they had to find new sites for this time as the camp was no longer usable. Walt left this morning with the advance […]
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Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all! We are looking forward to all that God will do in 2015. We enjoyed a wonderful time with all our daughters. Ashley and Juliana were able to see some of their friends from Faith Academy and we were able to enjoy some of the sites and memories of their […]
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An Eventful Second Quarter

An Eventful Second Quarter

We are nearing the end of the second quarter of school. Walter has been busy helping teachers and evaluating them as their principal. He has many meetings with students and parents, some have been good and encouraging and some have been difficult. As the middle school principal, Walter is in charge of planning the week […]
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Quarter One Conferences

Quarter One Conferences

First quarter has come and gone. Abby only has a couple weeks left of volleyball. Since this is my first full year as middle school principal, I will not be coaching this year, but I know I will be peaking my nose in the gym a few times. First quarter was filled with activities and […]
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Friendships and Retreats

Friendships and Retreats

Thank you for praying for Walter as he continues transitioning into his new role as middle school principal. It has been fairly smooth, just busy. He spends hours each day replying to emails and in meetings, but he schedules time to be in the halls and lounge to be with staff and students. At the […]
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School has Begun

School has Begun

We have been in the Philippines now for two weeks. We arrived a day after the typhoon came. Our house was fine with the exception of a couple of small large bushes that were down and our phone line is still not working. We were fortunate to have power when we arrived. But the next […]
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Final Days

Final Days

Lamentations 3:22b-23, “…his compassions fail not. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. As I write this, we are traveling back to Wichita. We had a great time visiting with friends and family on our way to Wisconsin. On Saturday, we enjoyed a God-honoring wedding, celebrating the union of our son, Paul, with […]
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June Praises

June Praises

Psalm 50:15, “Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me;” or another translation states:  Trust me in your times of trouble, and I will rescue you, and you will give me glory.” Thank you for praying for us! We have had an exciting week.  We have […]
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Grace

Grace

2 Corinthians 9:8, “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.” While we are on our home assignment, we often hear from people: “I could never be a missionary!” But then after talking with them […]
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Answers to Prayer!

Answers to Prayer!

Psalm 23:1  “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”  Ps. 23 was in my daily reading last night and it struck me that “I have everything I need.” (Ps.23:1 in NLT) When I wrote last month, we had collected about $3000 in our outgoing expenses the whole year. Outgoing expenses includes tickets, vehicle […]
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