Fall flies by once again, and as we approach thanksgiving, of course, we thank the Lord for all the blessings.Family-wise, this year has been so different than last. Especially in the health area. We have been so excited to see the progress of Kevin with his prosthetic—incredible. The doctor says he is doing very well, very quickly; Kevin walked with a limp in the beginning (end of September), but now it is totally gone. He meets three days a week with a therapist, but that will be ending soon. However, the progress includes Kevin actually walking down the hill to our local park and he has begun to learn how to run again as well. Just amazing to watch.
Kevin has also been able to return more full-time to the ministries in which we are involved. At Sojourn Academy, he is back in the director’s chair, and that, in turn, enables Tia to return more to teaching in secondary English classes, which she totally enjoys doing.
Kevin also continues to administrate our ABWE Costa Rica team. Toward that end, we ask that you pray for the team to continue to develop and strategize for evangelism here in Costa Rica. One of our fellow families will be going home on a year’s furlough—the Salleys; and another family, the Lohrmans, will be moving into the interior area of Guanacaste in order to survey that area.
Pray, too, for the visa situation of our family as well as several other families on the field. The lawyer who has been handling that process for us did not come through with his end of the work; after finding out from immigrations that our paperwork was not as far as long as we had been told, several families have to begin again with the processes. Needless to say, this is not a “free” application process and requires an investment of time as well.
As we continue to attend church at “Vida Nueva” and support the work of the Colliers, Tia helps
occasionally with children’s church, for which Colleen is actually on the teacher team. Watching Colleen grow up encourages greatly us as parents. Every opportunity in which she is placed, she shines and quickly takes up whatever leadership or teaching or translation needs exist. Naturally, too, she and Tara can do all that in both languages, and being that we have so many missionary kids in children’s church and in Sojourn, they have chances all over the place to help with these children going through transitions.
Speaking of children in transition, please continue to pray for Sean in his second year of college. As a third-culture-kid (TCK), he has a lot of different adjustments to conquer, and he would appreciate your prayers.Katy, too, engages in her own adventures still. This week she will return to Costa Rica for a week. Since September, Katy has worked in Honduras with friends of ours who work on a medical missions compound near the coast (La Ceiba). Her primary role involves teaching two sixth graders in home school, but she also enjoys ministries with the local children’s center and music ministry with the local youth group.
Thanksgiving, yes, brings reflections and thank you’s
Bigger than we can express in words.
Often we do not realize
the moments or hours
that you take us with you in prayer.
But then we look back over the road we have traveled...
A road perhaps narrow and bumpy, but lit up with that light that is Christ,
His words and His care.