March 2010 Ps&Ps

BACK ON THE ROAD -- We must admit that getting back into the “saddle” of furlough travels will be another adjustment to life. Please pray for stamina and spirit. We look forward to seeing those who have been supporting and praying for us these last five years particularly, and it will be a blessing to share the photos and memories of the ministry in Costa Rica.

 

Just this past weekend, we presented our first report at Calvary Baptist in Parkertown, NJ. What a blessing to hear how so many have been praying for us and for Kevin’s medical needs. What a praise! (Photo: Kevin and Tia with Pastor Mike and Michelle Dellaperute, more photos here.)

 

In April, Tia will have the opportunity to travel to Santiago, Chile, to work for three weeks with Dr. Bev Monroe at the ABWE missionary school there. They will be helping to set up their school library—which was also affected by the recent earthquake. Dr. Monroe came to San Jose, Costa Rica, back in 2005 to help us at Sojourn Academy, and we know what a helpful ministry this is to the schools educating our missionary kids and national students around the world. (Photos.)

 

Please pray for our travels and that we are able to encourage others during these visits and presentations:

• Cornerstone Baptist, Springfield, OH — April 16-18, 200
• Grace Bible Church, Pompton Plains, NJ — April 23-24
• First Baptist Church, Hackensack, NJ — April 25
• Hainesport Community Baptist, Hainesport, NJ — May 2
• First Baptist Church, Perkasie, PA — May 16
• People’s Baptist, Maybrook, NY — June 6

With faith in Him, Kevin, Tia, Colleen, & Tara

FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD
Looking ahead to ministries in Costa Rica, we also request prayer as we will be significantly switching gears this term. Our focus last term was the ministry at Sojourn Academy in San Jose, Costa Rica. Now we are facing a return to more time in church planting, particularly in a more interior region of the country. In that same area, we will be involved in a pastoral training institute. We also hope to work with a Costa Rican lay pastor in a new work in Cartago—the catholic center of the country about 30 minutes from the capital. Huge needs exist in that area, and prayerfully we will make an impact with the gospel. One of the tools we plan to use is The Story of Hope and The Way to Joy booklets put out by ABWE, in this situation in Spanish, of course. (For more information about this ministry resource, visit Good Soil .)

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places....

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.
I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Psalm 16:6-8

For the Reillys, 2009 has been a year of new ventures and praises. Although hard ground had to be conquered, we saw the Lord’s guidance and care, and look forward to that same promise as we enter 2010.

Praises and Prayer Requests. Please rejoice with us in…
…Kaitlyn’s opportunity to minister in Honduras with the Concepcion family: she helped home school families, worked in a children’s home, and played guitar in the church worship team. In the US she transitioned into Central State University and left with a 4.0 in her first semester (parents are allowed to brag). Please pray as she works into her second term and continues in her two part-time jobs.
…Sean finishing a second year at Cedarville and ROTC, and then in his marriage to Christina Stanfield in August. Please pray for Sean and Christina, as they transition into full-time army life and even more importantly, into full-time parenthood.
…Colleen and Tara’s help in ministries at the Costa Rica church and mk school; in both finishing up a good year of school in Costa Rica, and transitioning into life in the states at school and youth group here in Cedarville, Ohio.
…Kevin and Tia’s finishing up a term at Sojourn Academy—rejoicing in having met many of the goals we had in place for the school five years ago, and also happy that an interim director was willing and able to take over when we had to return to the U.S. for medical leave.

We also praise the Lord for the excellent and financially-provided-for medical care through the Veteran’s Administration which meets Kevin’s health needs on every front. We praise the Lord for the progress in healing and adaptation to his prosthesis.
We praise the Lord for opportunities for Tia to teach Spanish in a local Christian school; she will also have the opportunity to travel to Chile this year on a ministry team to the ABWE missionary kid school there in Santiago. She also praises the Lord for the chance to work on her masters and is in the home stretch; please pray that she will be able to finish this year.

As a family, most of all, we request prayer as the Lord leads us back into ministry. As Kevin finishes up medical leave and we enter furlough, we look forward to reporting to as many churches as possible between now and July. As the Lord leads us back to Costa Rica, we may work in an area slightly further away from the capital; we will minister with a young church plant, and if the Lord provides ministries to use our education background, we will be ready!

With faith in Him,
Kevin and Cynthia "Tia" Reilly

November 2009 Ps&Ps

Please continue to pray as we near December. Medical Leave has been good in that Kevin has been able to see a great variety of doctors through the Veteran’s Administration, and with good continuity. We pray that we will be able to begin a six-month furlough in January.

Please pray for continued wisdom in these areas.

Other prayer requests:
· Sean and Christina in their new family life
· Katy in college (living at home still and working a lot)
· Colleen in 11th grade (and just starting voice lessons)
· Tara in 10th grade (and just starting violin lessons)
· The ABWE team in Costa Rica (especially as one couple will be coming to the US for furlough and another couple for a few months for medical reasons)
· Sojourn Academy with its customary 3-times-per-year transitions of missionary kids coming to learning Spanish, its numbers of resident mks and Costa Rican and other internationals.

Kevin and Tia Reilly
Sojourn Academy
Reilly Great Remarks/Ps&Ps
Selah

Photo at right: the wedding of a good friend of ours from the Hackensack Spanish Church ministry; what a great visit with special family who traveled all the way to Ohio to see Jonathon and Emily married. More photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/Tialrreilly/Bochewedding#

August Ps&Ps 2009

Dear supporting family and friends

We have now been in Ohio--as a whole family--since late June. Naturally, it is an adjustment, but Cedarville offers us a lot of friendship and church support, and we appreciate that so much.

Updates for prayer:

• The pain in Kevin's ankle continues to worsen and something will need to be done in regards to that soon. He also occasionally suffers from pain in the residual limb and phantom pains still.
  


• Continue to pray for the adjustments to the new prostheses that he has received. He is also continuing with therapies and rehabilitation treatments.
  


• Pray for the girls--Colleen and Tara--as they start a new school year at Cedar Cliff schools, a school that they attended her five years ago. Pray, too, for their continual adjustments to being in the states. And Colleen is starting her learning-to-drive part of life.
  


• Also for Katy who will start college this month--Central State University, about three miles down the road--Literature, Secondary Education.
  


• Pray too for Sean and Christina, who hope to get married soon.
  


• Pray for Tia as she tries to finish up masters work this year while here. Her summer classes went very successfully.
  


• Pray for strength for all of us!

With faith in Him, Kevin and Tia Reilly

Ps&Ps July 2008

Dear Supporting friends and family,

Just to give you an update, we have landed safe and sound in Cedarville, OH. After nine weeks of half of us being in Costa Rica and the other half in Cedarville, we finally reunited on June 23.

Tia has been taking courses toward her masters, which was the original plan, at Cedarville University. Kevin has been busy with appointments at the Dayton Veteran's Medical Center. Although the move from Costa Rica has been a hard one, it has been very apparent that it has been the right move. Kevin's residual limb still continues to have changes, and the prosthesis vendor continues to meet with him to deal with new equipment and how to work with it all. Kevin still has some pain come and go in that limb (besides the phantom pain), and he still has various aspects of therapy to work through. After the VA provides a second prosthesis (the current one is the "backup"), the doctors will look toward doing surgery on his other ankle.

Being that it is summer, the kids do not have as much activity going on as usual. However, they do have their friends (and fiancé, in Sean's case) to help keep them busy, and Colleen and Tara's friends from years before still, of course, remember them and create more good times.

Please keep praying for the adjustments and activities of our new situation.

Note our new telephone and address:

937-766-3038 (we are no longer using the Vonage phone number) PO Box 491, Cedarville, OH 45314
Email for Kevin: kreilly@abwe.cc
Email for Tia/general family: reilly@hisnet.net

With our faith in Him,

Kevin, Tia
Sean, Kaitlyn, Colleen and Tara

Photos--signs of the midwest (please note the vehicle parked in the Subway parking lot; by the way, this is where Katy works parttime. Our house is just to the left of the fence).