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).

A difficult letter to write . . . .

Originally sent on May 20, 2009

Dear Supporting Family -- I am writing to share with you what is most difficult for Tia and me.

Once again I have come to the states to repair my prosthesis and I have found much needed help. Although I have had great improvement since the amputation a year ago, at the same time I have encountered more work that needs to be done. In the fall of 2008, I rushed back to my family, field and to our ministries, without taking time to fully adjust to my amputation, to take time for needed rehabilitation, get the exact prosthetic, learn to live as an amputee, and understand what it means to be an amputee and actually be fully recovered.

Not only do I need to catch up with these items dealing with the amputation, but I also need an operation on my remaining ankle (residual problems from before the amputation last year).

Our Mission ABWE has asked us to take a medical leave of absence until December 2009, and then reevaluate our situation and perhaps proceed with furlough (we were planning on that for the following year). At that point of time we will assess our ability to serve our Lord outside the USA.

With incredibly heavy, but peace-filled hearts, we have put down our ministries in Costa Rica—working as team coordinator and directing the Christian school.

Tia and the girls will be rejoining Kevin in Cedarville, where he currently has been undergoing continual medical appointments and treatments these last few weeks. Please pray for us as we wrap up a variety of details here in Costa Rica before this travel.

With our faith in Him,
Kevin M. and Tia Reilly
ABWE Costa Rica