Well everyone, we are back! In case you didn't know or didn't realize, we went back home to Indiana for the summer to enjoy some time off with our family and friends. We had a wonderful time, but when it came time to come back here to the DR, we were ready to go. We arrived yesterday at about 10:30 p.m. after a few compounding problems which delayed our plane by about 3 hours. However, God kept us safe and allowed us to return to our wonderful, but dull apartment last night. It felt so different than last year when we came for the very first time. We know the airport, the city, the people picking us up, and the apartment that we arrived to. Believe it or not...it felt like we were home...to our home with our stuff. God really has answered our prayer by allowing us to enjoy it here and easily make it through last year and look forward to this year.
So as some of your know, we spoke at a church this summer to tell about our many adventures and new life here in the Dominican Republic. We listed four prayer requests that others can pray for about us. After a little bit of thought, we decided that we would post those four requests here on our blog so that our other followers could prayer for us as well.
1.) Pray for our incoming students that will be in our classroom this coming year, that they would be accepting of the Word and of what we have to teach them.
2.) Pray for our slow learning of Spanish, that we would learn it more quickly and that we could use it to better our ministry here.
3.) Pray that God would provide us with some good friends to encourage us in every area of life.
4.) Pray as we make our decision about staying in the DR another year or returning to the US at the end of this year.
Thank you so much for all your prayers and thoughts. You have no clue how much they have helped. We enjoyed seeing most of your this summer and look forward to seeing you again soon. You are in our thoughts always.
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A praise that you guys made it back with relatively few issues! What a blessing for us to spend a week with you guys. It was a wonderful time. We will be lifting up your requests at our home. The kids, families, school and community in Santiago are incredibly blessed to have you both making a difference in lives on a daily-basis for Him. You are both inspiring and it is truly an honor and a privilege to see what the Lord is doing through you both. Thanks for the post!
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