On May 23rd we welcomed a new daughter into our family! We are thankful for the way God brought Joel and Jaden together and for being able to celebrate along with them. Just as they shared their vows to each other in a gentle rain, we pray for God’s kind blessings to fall on their new marriage together.
That same weekend, Luke graduated from John Brown University with a major in Outdoor Leadership. He has taken a full time job working at Meramec Adventure Ranch in Missouri. They work with foster children, most of whom come from really tough backgrounds. Pray that Luke has many opportunities to love on these kids and share God’s love with them.
We are thankful we had the wedding weekend with all of our family. We enjoyed seeing our sweet granddaughter again. She is 10 months old and full of smiles and laughs.
Currently Scott is teaching 3 Hebrew classes: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The Thursday evening class has been studying with him for 6 months now and these students are making some good progress. The other 2 classes just started in May. One of his more advanced students asked Scott whether he might be ready to begin teaching Hebrew to others. As it turns out, Segundo has joined Scott as an assistant teacher in one of his new classes. He has become so convinced about the importance of Hebrew that he recruited several additional students to begin the study. It is great to see people like him catch the vision and help multiply our ministry!
Kristi and Lindsey are getting close to finishing up their school years. Lindsey will have very little left after this week and Kristi will finish classes on June 16. They have both been completely online since March of 2020.
April and May were difficult months for Ecuador as the hospitals were full of Covid patients and many people were put on waiting lists, not being able to get the help they needed. Vaccines have been slow to arrive in Ecuador. For several weekends in April and May, there were more restrictions again, forcing everyone to remain at home in the evenings and for the entire weekend. You can read more from these articles in English:
or this article in Spanish:
Beginning in the fall, Alliance Academy is expected to continue online with only a possibility of having 2 days a week in school. Because of this we have made the decision to enroll Lindsey in school in Kansas for the coming fall. Scott and I will continue teaching our classes online from Kansas, something that wasn’t possible before the pandemic. Lindsey has done amazing with online school, but she is going to be a junior and we feel it is best for her to be back in school in person and able to participate in extracurricular activities again.
We’ll continue to monitor the situation in Ecuador and seek God’s timing for our return date. Meanwhile we would like to find someone who could occupy our apartment in Quito and pay at least some of our cost for the rent. Please pray with us for wisdom and provision.
