tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-360781472024-03-13T09:51:11.154+01:00Tanguay family Adventures in Istanbul, Turkey as a family of 2, then on to Zambia, Africa as a family or 3 then 4, and now soon to be 5!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-84544074265591795852014-01-25T21:25:00.001+01:002014-01-25T21:27:55.068+01:00raw and more raw<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #b6d7a8; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: small/normal arial; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">how are you?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">ugh.... urgh.. pretty good? not too bad ? plain bad? alright? all wrong?...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">this question often leaves me a little hmmm....dumbfounded. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">sure, i usually come up with a response. but is it true and transparent and is it revelatory?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">and when you're asked by someone who cares. the 'how are you' with gently inquiring eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">well, to quote a good movie:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">IT'S COMPLICATED.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">besides the RARE moments of 'wow everything is doing amazing' </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">and the moments of 'CRAP, everything is going wrong' </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">most days are just too complex to be described in one word: good, ok, fine, splendid, mediocre..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">this blogger mom of 3 did a great job at describing the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u><i>constant polar opposite feelings, </i></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><u><i>the simultaneous schizophrenic mania of contradictions</i></u>.... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">I'm glad to be a complex creature, i'm glad i can't describe my life, my day, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">my thoughts in one picture perfect word. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">deep calls to the deep</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">and i am thankful for words that do describe my life, my thoughts my days. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Words to share, words to exchange, words to connect. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">in an attempt to simplify and reveal, here's the word of the day:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">"the often remarkable resilience of so many British institutions"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">I don't know about 'quickly' but definitely 'recover'. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">and recover while doing justice to this complex being that i am. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">all at once, mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">i have a dream to develop an ability to be the object of a wrong, a blow, a disappointment, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">an injustice, a fatality, an incredibly stressful situation</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">and be able to assimilate it, stare at it in the face, not deny the emotions and feelings that ensue,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">grieve when needed, be open about it ..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">oh to live at peace with myself .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">there are no standards i must live up to. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">divine perfection is not even a standard God puts on me!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">ugh! he very well knows what i am made of! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">it is rather a transformation and i am not able to perform it myself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">can i love myself today? can i truly accept myself ? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">can i be patient with myself, with exactly where i am, fully aware i am not where</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">i wish i were. and consciously and purposely </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">letting go </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">of that </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><b>self-harassment</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">children that are the least happy and the worst mis-behaved often have </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">a parent -or two- constantly correcting, admonishing, gripping,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">criticizing, yelling at them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">I yell at myself. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">in my head. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">with no words.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">NOL -not out loud</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">but i yell.at.myself </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">not quite the way to become the 'epanouie' person i want to be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">there isn't quite the word in english to describe epanouie. the first definition said 'flushed??</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">it's the concept of a flower that has bloomed, arrived at maturity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">i've come a long way from the teenage girl who couldn't talk abt her inner</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">struggles (actually would have N.E.V.E.R imagine showing a weak side of me..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">i always subconsciously and in a totally destructive way thought that it was </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">the best way to preserve and protect ones dignity.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">But i have yet to speak kindly to the areas of my life i find disappointing to say the least, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">i have yet to love ME when i want to casually but cruelly dismiss ME, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">i have yet to learn to bask in divine tenderness for no reason at all,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">i have yet to </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: medium;">honesty, resilience and self-love.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">God help me.</span></div>
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-34333248523184167592013-08-31T20:54:00.002+02:002013-08-31T20:54:35.534+02:00LEMON SCENTED??!.I was folding laundry in my in-laws laundry room, mind is drifting, random picture words and thoughts, eyes lost in the pipes on the unfinished ceiling. "dogs leave lemon scented pawprints on our hearts" I repeated it a few times still in a daze before it hit some neurons. Really??! where the heck did this thought come from? i couldn't help but crack a smile while looking around for a clue. finally on my left the 2 culprits. i must have read the label and the quote half subconsciously and my brain took it from there. 1 was an all purpose<i> lemon scented </i>cleaner, and the other a little ceramic heart that read; <i>dogs leave pawprints on our hearts</i>.<br />
And that's just random reading. Now... how far PURPOSELY reading, watching, hearing can go.<br />
On both ends of the spectrum...<br />
Purposefully listening to gossip- accidental gossip is really rare, one most always allows it to happen.<br />
Purposefully reading unedifying, empty, negative, lustful, VAIN content.<br />
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And then there's..</div>
Purposely stopping to watch the sunset, stare into my eldest daughter's eyes, feel a warm breeze come and go and carry scents of wood, moss, moisture; reading spirit inspiration, soul edification, taking in divine direction, self-love and worth.<br />
Dogs will most always leave mud pawprints. Better watch where i let my dog-mind wander.<br />
My thoughts on this lovely, quiet saturday afternoon.<br />
Lili is napping, Kezia is watching Dino Dan or something to that effect, Daddy has rocked Oceana to sleep. All is well.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-20093734322479007532013-08-30T17:41:00.003+02:002013-08-30T17:41:39.509+02:00Our 3rd wonder is here!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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OCEANA HOPE<br />
BORN ON HER SISTER LILIANA'S BIRTHDAY!<br />
8/8/2013, @ 6:27 AM, 8.4 LBS, 20.5 IN<br />
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I am so thankful for family that cares and that have prayed<br />
special for this time. My moms Isabelle and Janet and my sisters<br />
Melody, Rachael and Susanna :)<br />
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Oceana is 3 weeks old, we're struggling a little bit with her <br />
gaining her birth weight back, but it's slowly getting there. <br />
It's an adjustment for everyone, but I think it's happening<br />
pretty gracefully for the most part. The other part being nights <br />
with little sleep... still not used to that one! Going to look up <br />
the verse that declares He gives the righteous rest....<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-90303039698528570242013-08-04T11:59:00.001+02:002013-08-05T04:30:58.503+02:00and so time is fleetingI am forseeing this blog will be succinct. I don't even know where to start!<br />
We landed in Baltimore end of May. Gdpa and gdma Tanguay had 2 bedrooms ready for us, super hospitable and sweet. some of the foods we missed in the fridge. 2 weeks later jediah already has 2 part-time jobs lined up. one is a home based business the other working as a sailing instructor at Gunpowder park. life is already going full -american- speed! the girls and I caught a stomach virus and were really ill for over a week. more sick than I remember ever being sick in my adult life. welcome back to the states! convention is approaching. my parents have already made it to france and on their way to Canada before finally hitting Baltimore. the girls are super excited! when I told kezia papili and mamilie were coming she said: NOW I CAN TELL MY HEART TO STOP MISSING THEM. I love that girl. my pregnancy is going well. we don't have health insurance so can't schedule to be seen yet. the Wednesday of convention week we sign papers for an apartment in Middle River MD! newly renovated, brand new kitchen appliances, balcony with great view on the woods, access to a pool, playground, great location: 30 second walk to Target, Chick fil-a, bank of America etc. The whole story of how we got that particular appt is a miracle actually. Friends and family generously donated furniture and other items and now, a month later, we feel settled and at home. This transition, though rather smooth has been more stressful than we were willing to admit. We started off again with NOTHING, not a penny, 2 kids and 1 on the way, which pple usually do when they first get married. but it has put us on the right track from the beginning: TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART- ACNOWLEDGE HIM IN ALL YOUR WAYS, AND *HE* WILL MAKE YOUR PATH STRAIGHT. <br />
Kitwe and Zambia in general is on our hearts -and we miss it!!- tho from a distance now and we are so thankful to be able to continue to support financially those we were already supporting. There are some amazing pple there. The Speedy family were able to move into our old house. The church is growing and the building projects are going forward! Jediah hopes to visit this Fall.<br />
Some things Kezia has said lately. "What house will we be in when I have my birthday this year?" precious little traveler... and the other day: What would happen if we lived forever?? me: what do you think? her: i think we could visit ALLLLL the countries of the world! LOL <br />
Liliana is a little sunshine. she's adding more words to her vocabulary list every day. she loves to say hi to our neighbors and makes friends easily. she'll be 2 next week! she is the pacifier of the family, always wanting to kiss booboos, say sorry you got hurt, here's some of my snack etc. Her and kezia are getting along better and better. it's now less than 2 weeks to my due date. I get very entertained by random strangers predictions on when i'll have this baby. I do admit my belly is huge! i still have lots of energy, have been painting the girls room, decorating, refinishing a dresser and a mirror and now we are tackling some painting in the living room as probably our last house project before baby gets here. actually I have a dream of making us a coffee table (last item we haven't been able to get) with recycled pallets (this style but with a white wash finish: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZDNREIJ1ShtZusC3GZhMS6LGuSrOKl7AqG6u8TjLKM2pSKaaoNXF5I5Ff6TVO9Vq4oEuZPxy2M6hc6HWvvx42KuD9MTg09FhlBKVS7Ql3dgPBdhzyMZ9ZEMIV9rnIBl0Q3l1Org/s320/IMG_7289.JPG">https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZDNREIJ1ShtZusC3GZhMS6LGuSrOKl7AqG6u8TjLKM2pSKaaoNXF5I5Ff6TVO9Vq4oEuZPxy2M6hc6HWvvx42KuD9MTg09FhlBKVS7Ql3dgPBdhzyMZ9ZEMIV9rnIBl0Q3l1Org/s320/IMG_7289.JPG</a>) we finally have state medical insurance .this baby should be born at st joe's hospital like her oldest 2 sisters. We are so grateful for all our friends who have been continuing to pray for us and encouraging us. we truly are surrounded by amazing people. and so this concludes the very non-exhaustive tale of our last and first 3 months. I imagine the next blog will be a baby announcement. :) soooooooooooooooo excited. (no name yet tho!!!)<!--:-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-68750908614257924422013-05-31T06:59:00.001+02:002013-05-31T06:59:44.553+02:00FISH TAILS & GM MAIZE<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am laying
in bed, semi-awake, it’s after 4 am, writing a blog in my head. It rarely
happens, but lately, probably because we are days –almost hours- to leaving
this place- I have been subconsciously dreading I would miss writing something
important and then time would be gone. It’s not as dramatic as that I could always post as ‘I
remember once in kitwe’ or ‘ I just found old pictures of’! Nevertheless I am
up, cup of rooibos steaming next to me, bathrobe and socks on –it’s Zambian
Fall here!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Last week.
Cutting up carrots, pouring coconut juice, deboning a piece of cooked chicken,
throwing some rice on the stove and pouf! The power goes off. Just like you
would imagine a house giving up the ghost. Unannounced, unwanted. With no bread
whatsoever to make any kind of sandwiches we decide it’s time we try a little
Zambian restaurant on the main road North. It’s part of a gas station, doesn’t
look so inviting at first sight but we heard you can get Nshima with fish (FISH
ya’ll!! Rare around here) for KR 12. Just abt $2.50. sounds like a great deal
to me. That day had been grey and just as we headed out it started raining. In
the middle of the dry season…. Very strange. But we loved every minute of it,
driving in rain, stopping at gas station for something to eat, we felt back at
home on a road trip. The fish was SOO delicious, it was a huge piece of Bream,
fried, with tail, skin, bone and all, but sooo tasty and yummy. We even went
back in for seconds but as I showed up a bunch of workers lined up in front of
me and by the time it was my turn, a lonely fish head was looking up at me from
the bowl. I passed. After eating – we started chatting with the guy sitting by
the door, the manager of the place. The rain came up, and as much as we were
enjoying it he explained why a rain in the middle of the dry season was
actually dramatic for zambian farmers. By now, most maize has been harvested
and is being dried, to be later milled in to flour, then cooked into Nshima,
what EVERY Zambian human being eats everyday of their life, except for maybe
2-3 pple in the whole country who don’t care for it. I met one of them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
unlikeliness of a rain would have taken most farmers by surprise and would have
most likely spoiled that harvest, as the grains are layed out in the open to
dry. Not to mention builders that have stacked piles of bags of ciment, and in
one little shower, all of them are ruined. The harshness of the ‘outdoors’
living. He went on to describe his own field of maize, he said he grew corn
mostly (corn as in the sweet yellow corn as we know it in America and Europe,
99% of Zambia grows maize a harder, light yellow in color, not sweet type of corn) The conversation quickly became
alarming when I asked him if he knew the percentage of corn farmed that is
genetically modified. “All, I think.” he said. “Because once the grain is
harvested it cannot be replanted” URgh. My stomach got a knot. I’m feeling
dizzy imagining what it would be like to eat that grain as your staple food for
a lifetime. The knot is not going away. We talked some more abt the impact it
could have on him, his family. He seemed to be aware of it but unable to change
anything. He added ‘regular grains don’t yield enough to make it worth the
effort’. Then onto to pesticides and
insecticides, the story only got worse. “the maize is sprayed while growing,
then again after harvested to keep away animals from store houses.” Organic
sure is a foreign thought around here, according to my experience at least. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SO in 2 days
we are locking up our house and going on to the next adventure. The immediate
adventure will be to get the states! We have to take a taxi to the bus station at 5 am, jediah will drop our luggage downtown with Clive, then come back to get us the
girls. Then a 6 hr drive to Lusaka. Thank
God for diapers and pull-ups, cause this bus ain’t stopping for peepees! Then another taxi to a lodge. (a taxi ride is roughly $7-8) Spend the
day and night there, leave super early
morning for the airport; then first 8 hr flight to London; spend the night at small local
hotel; leave next afternoon for second 8 hr flight; arrive in Bwi at 8 pm.
Hallelujah. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My friend
Memory, if you remember her! Pray for her little munchkin Nalu, she has been at
the hospital twice already in 2 weeks, she seems to have some sort of respiratory
problem…. Not yet diagnosed. It could be an allergy to the milk powder
supplement she is giving her, she is only 3 months old. We had been planning for a while now that I would
teach her how to make a pumpkin pie (pumpkins are abundant here!) but that
hasn’t yet happened; so last night after church we dropped off a pumpkin pie at
the hospital and said our good byes. She is an amazing woman. Her husband
doesn't permit her to come to church still but her words are so edifying always... I will miss her. and many others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Also our dear Astridah (the 'bride') who was diagnosed with a serious heart condition. We are trying to get her to see another heart specialist. Her last hospital experience was a joke and a disaster. They injected her with pain killers 3 x a day, one of the doctors later admitted it was over-dosed............ She DIDN'T need pain killers. Made me sick. Then she was sent home with no meds to take or advice on what to do, in case she has a spell in the middle of the night -as she usually has them. Her condition is the cause for most heart attacks in young people........... Lord please lead her and her husband to the right specialist.... </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-71697522921219865582013-05-18T20:09:00.002+02:002013-05-18T20:44:35.644+02:00EVERY DAY LIVING<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The girls with Benson in front of the 'church' . This tent was imported from South Africa <br />and we have been meeting under its white and blue tarp for a couple months now!<br />Benson is the leader in charge while P. Adam is away. A great man!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Bible College guys dorm being built (it was actually just recently finished)<br />under the skillful eye of Lili. This dorm has curently 5 guys that are the pillars of the church</span>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Making n'shima one work night while Jediah and the guys were finishing up building benches. Threw some old wood boards together, a bunch of dried grass, a match </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and a fire was roaring. water (i don't even want to think<br />about where the water came from - but at least it got boiled) </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and some corn flour, makes this doughy staple<br />in Zambian and many of africa's cultures. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">KEZIA in her normal state of mind :) She's helping with cooking and helping with building the benches, you know, sitting on side of the bench to hold it while someone is nailing the other end of it, that kind of super helpful help. and later when it got dark and there were more benches to build, she held the flash light, steady like a champ.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">What they call 'relish' is a type of sauce or side that you eat with N'shima. It usually consists of some type of vegetable leaf (our favorite is Sweet Potatoe Leaf and Bondwe) cooked down to a type of spinach casserole. This one is 'relish' at it's most basic state; sliced up cabbage, a few tomatoes and salt. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This picture was taken abt an hour later, in the complete dark -which is why it's not focused- when we all gathered around the meal. Since we were to all eat out of one pot, I was lucky to help myself and the girls first before everyone converged! ;) Notice the second relish (made of eggs and tomatoes) was served in a plastic bag for a lack of pot. Jediah scored a 'plate' to dish out some food, a pot lid really. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pray for our precious Astridah (you might remember her from a previous blog, she recently got married to Charles, our first wedding here in Kitwe) she was diagnosed with a serious heart condition. Here at the hospital with her favorite nurse!</span></td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-43176850467982800922013-05-18T15:54:00.001+02:002013-05-18T15:54:32.313+02:00SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTERLUDEand so on this beautiful Zambian fall afternoon i made my first<br />
ever batch of homemade dark chocolate!<br />
it is out of this world delicious. and did i say it's also healthy. yup.<br />
it took 5 mn to make and it has opened my mind to whole new<br />
world of possibilities...<br />
i made mini chocolate chips out of the batch so we can have<br />
chocolate chip cookies later today.<br />
I mean, mission field or not, a girls' gotta keep winning her<br />
man's heart after all!<br />
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source and recipe: <a href="http://www.primallyinspired.com/easy-healthy-homemade-dark-chocolate/">http://www.primallyinspired.com/easy-healthy-homemade-dark-chocolate/</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-44101776866313928092013-05-15T14:38:00.001+02:002013-05-15T14:45:20.569+02:00LITTLE BABY....<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>every time that kick or turn or move or rub is felt in the womb i still wonder at the miracle, the oddness, the magic of it... </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>whose heart has been beating almost from conception, </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>a little soft face and wiggly toes, your eyelashes and tiny fingernails, </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>to hear that newborn cry that depends on me for sustenance and love and life... ahhhhhh little baby... you were a surprise to us </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>but we sure are crazy about you now...</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;">This is my new sweet friend Memory! and her almost 3 month old baby girl Nalu. She heard abt our church on the radio while she was veeery pregnant and couldn't go anywhere and started coming to our meetings after having her baby. Her 2 sisters Jessica and Jedida and niece Lisa come with her as well. </span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;">She is married to an ex-muslim who 'aparenty' join catholicism, but is definitely not born again. This makes their marriage a very complicated and growingly difficult situation. She visited last thursday and we spent the whole afternoon talking, eating, laughing, staring at her beautiful baby.. Memory is a truck driver!! She resumed work this week and to her discouragement was told that she couldn't work in the office as had originally been planned but would have to get behind the wheel as they are short of drivers... or quit her job pretty much. Some assignments take her hundreds of miles away from Kitwe and can potentially be overnight trips. She is very nervous about it, considering that her daughter is so little and doesn't take the bottle easily. She is going to try it out and make a decision down the road if things don't work out but right now her family really needs the money. </span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;">The newest development with her husband, as of 2 weeks ago, is that he told her he didn't want her to attend church anymore. Last night, as he was on an overseas trip, she came to our mid-week service, somethig was heavy on her heart.. A friend of hers had offered to watch her baby on a certain day and brough along with her... nothing less than a demon. A woman -who had never met Memory before- but was claiming to be a prophet from God, started telling her that her strong advice to her is that she leaves her husband, start looking right away for a new place to move to, that her husband is the cause for bad spirits in the house, that he's a womanizer and she will get many diseases from him if she stays with him, but that if she leaves him, she will have peace and become wealthy......... and on and on she went. She finished her vomitting with a bottle of 'oil' that Memory is to mix with everything she eats, drink, her bath water and so on, to keep evil spirits away.... yup, TIA!</span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;">Memory told me she was at loss for words, but did manage to ask her for bible verses to back up her 'prophecy' to which she was told that she didn't have any and would have to get back to her on that..</span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;">I was so mad. Africa is loaded with these kind of people. They make me sick. [Oh, we -in america/europ-have our own types of disgustingly hyper-spiritual, demon influenced so called christians, they just are a little more subtle]. Their lips move with the devils fingers and they utter words such as, in the name of Jesus, it's God's will for you, bla, bla, BLA.</span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;">I told her my advice was to never let that lady in her house again. Jediah added under his breath, maybe she's after her husband! lol.... We talked abt the institution of marriage, how sacred that is, later Benson (who's leading the church in p adam's absence) told her that she was not alone in this difficult marriage and that we are her family. Please pray for her with me! It's obvious the devil is going at it from every possible angle. She had said to me earlier that every time someone from the church comes to her house she felt peace come over her house. We are talking abt possibly having a small weekly gathering for ladies around the bible at her house. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-18108729454630230882013-04-30T07:38:00.000+02:002013-05-02T10:48:48.985+02:00FRIDAY is FAMILY DAY!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYQ4DJdf4gdGYCxgMQgxWkBXsWOSSjhkx4tE6OPviDm0cVjTHFMc7SI320NkG21-UMuc7PoLVu8vDL19TgA8NN3QKXwkEJ0GvEus5bd5HN8ZZIuy3_wxFMaiVYgGgpJi4lJZ0ZQ/s1600/_DSC1343.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYQ4DJdf4gdGYCxgMQgxWkBXsWOSSjhkx4tE6OPviDm0cVjTHFMc7SI320NkG21-UMuc7PoLVu8vDL19TgA8NN3QKXwkEJ0GvEus5bd5HN8ZZIuy3_wxFMaiVYgGgpJi4lJZ0ZQ/s640/_DSC1343.JPG" width="424" /></a><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;">our sweet lil rascal! LILIANA</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- We JUST discovered that there is a dam -which really is a beautiful lake- in kitwe!! just as we were having a pity party over the lack of any body of water in this area... God is full of very human surprises.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I loved what i read by O. Chambers, but now i can't seem to find what day it was from?..</span><br />
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"<span style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. This is generally expressed with a sigh of sadness, but it should be an expression of breathless expectation. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My handsome husband - in his element!</span><br />
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she is 1 and a 1/2 and is already a riot!
As she was walking away, I leaned my head back and said: Je t'aime! She didn't say her usual 'tai' back, but i could hear - tho she was already in the hallway- i could hear her little lips pursing and sending a little yummy kiss...
Sometimes we pray, you know, talk to God, or think to God, and there's not necessarily an answer, but maybe just a small white funny looking cloud in a sea-blue sky, maybe the quiet whisper of the breeze in the trees, the tiniest purple flower growing in the gravel path.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-31473284732345530032013-04-15T17:19:00.001+02:002013-04-15T17:19:28.467+02:00Kitwe Greater Grace Church New Building Project! <- click to watch videoUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-43114297768195126982013-04-13T16:13:00.003+02:002013-04-17T14:28:21.678+02:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQ17-Z20gLTCbC28pY8cxVBYbOERePwWHJKTCnI-laxoREeQERzNYJDKS0Ma10YmlQO4S_IP0rUJdBz1D9itbXBVE-CCggH8ZzfH4EXK09kQxZkeKirBlC6y5lDbQT0D1h8rNkQ/s1600/k+4+and+a+half.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQ17-Z20gLTCbC28pY8cxVBYbOERePwWHJKTCnI-laxoREeQERzNYJDKS0Ma10YmlQO4S_IP0rUJdBz1D9itbXBVE-CCggH8ZzfH4EXK09kQxZkeKirBlC6y5lDbQT0D1h8rNkQ/s320/k+4+and+a+half.jpg" /></a>
OUR KEZIA!
4 and a half.
Today she comes in the kitchen and says to me - totally randomly: Now i know why i have to go to school! so that when i'm a mama and my children ask me about the gospel of God i can tell them what it is!
she is so sweet.
yes she drives us nuts, but her heart is so, so tender.
I have to get motivated again for home schooling. It's all by faith right? sending a child to school or home schooling them, it's a decision to be made by faith.
i told her that mothers and daughters have to hug many times a day, and so she wholeheartedly reminds me of that and hugs and hugs with those big grey-green eyes and smile to her ears...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-28999902378825842062013-04-09T13:46:00.005+02:002013-04-09T13:47:46.428+02:00so this is the car we drive here in Zambia, it's a Spacio, THE car that all taxi drivers drive in kitwe... you might remember me mentioning that.
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A week or so ago, I went downtown with the girls, parked in front of the main grocery store, wasn't inside more than 15 mn that 2 guys tap on my shoulder and ask if I am driving a Spacio and had parked in front of the store and that I better hurry out because the Police is out there, thinking it's a taxi and are getting ready to 'bust' my car.... By the time I got out there, the police had left and there was a huge crowd of mostly guys all talking at once, letting me know how lucky I was that they were able to convince the police that the car wasn't a taxi, as they were getting ready to puncture my tires and who knows what else... Apparently the police has been working hard lately at 'convincing' taxis to not park in customer spots. I have to say it was my first positive 'mob experience' in Africa. Noone trying to intimidate, or asking for compensation -ie money; we actually all laughed together at the irony of this white lady driving a 'taxi'! Well it's nice to know even pple you don't know are watching your back!
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I asked Benson the other day, how is it that there are pick pockets in many parts of town, but almost every other house has a little table on the street with some type of goods they are selling, with NO one to watch the goods but they don't get stolen?? his answer was 'It's the community. everyone is watching out for each other in the neighborhood'.
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You might remember Kennedy and Chanda from a few weeks back. The building developments on our church land required a night guard and Kennedy was hired for the job!! Praise God! an answer to his and our prayers. Chanda has been ill lately and we haven't seen her in church yet. Her husband told me yesterday that she still attends UCZ (United Church of Zambia) where they used to go to together, but maybe with time she'll start coming out with her husband. We are still in the 'try outs' of a little business idea for her.
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ZAM-CON was really enjoyable for me this year!!! We got to stay at a very decent lodge, along with Renee Beland, Barbara Hill and Istvan Pirgeri aka Pirgi. Seeing all our friends from LUSAKA, SOUTH AFRICA, AMERICA, PHILIPPINES and ETC was soooo refreshing.
Here's a quick MOMMY-MOMENT, just as a testimony of the very special leaders we have.
It was sunday night, the last night of the conference; ordination, many messages, lots of awesome music etc. But that's only what i was told. I was outside in the dark (and pitch black for a while as the whole property lost power for almost an hour) with the 2 girls, trying to entertain them, keep them from getting hurt and picking up trash to play with and having given up on avoiding their red dirt covered hands and feet. When the session was just about to end, we went in the conference hall and sat in the back, i was exhausted, done with the kids craziness, and just wanted to ask around, has anyone else noticed how long this has been going on for???! yeah. i was not pretty to look at or talk to. All the while, the pastors are up front praying for pple or something of the sort. That's when Jediah appears all clean in his white shirt and tie and let's me know P Scibelli wants the Armans, Speedys and Tanguays on stage to pray for us. I *almost* L O L. I was filthy, upset, stinky and on the verge of disowning my children. Sure i would love to go up on stage right now. Jediah could read those words all over my face i guess because he added: ...by faith? i wanted to say: you did not just play that card on me. He picked up both girls and i just got up and -reluctantly- followed. On the stage we quickly arranged in a semi circle around p scibelli, the Speedys, Micah sleeping on his dad's shoulder, the Arman family, and us. P Scibelli bowed his head to pray for us, one hand on each person on the end of the circle. Now, him bowing his head means you are pretty much looking into his face if you didn't close your eyes- like i didn't -of course. "Father, I thank you for these families..." and right there after those words his face broke in a sob he was trying very hard to hold back. He barely paused for more than 10 seconds but it was clear he fought those tears back reeeeally hard. Well, that's all my stinky crusty heart needed to hear/see, to soften up and be thankful again. Thankful for this man who preached forever tonight, thankful for the red dirt all over my clothes and my kids bodies, thankful for a husband who annoys me with his Faith, thankful for God who shows me how much i have to be thankful for... P Scibelli's heart was all over his face, this leather tanned face, this sometimes harsh italian looking face, all over it you could see care and love.
That was an unforgettable face to face with our missions director.
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It rained all day on Thursday, so the construction work on the church's new plot of land was interrupted. perfect! jediah came home earlier than planned, we hopped in the car and set off to visit Kennedy and Chanda, a young couple who visited last sunday. Jediah had met him on outreach abt a month prior to that. as we got closer to their house, we came to what was basically a lake right in the middle of the road. it was clear the car wouldn't make it through. we parked there and finished on foot using a shortcut as Kennedy was leading the way. Through someone's backyard, then between 2 outhouses, ground covered in trash, slippery slopes, finally arriving in a yard- little house made up of 2 side by side rooms (each room for 1 family...), 2 mangoe trees, an old bench, lots of puddles, a few patches of sweet potatoes plants growing, clothes hanging on a long line across the yard. 3 chairs are borrowed from the neighbor, an old t shirt to whipe them down and we sit with our guests. Lili and kezia are already running after the chickens, picking up old mangoes and splashing in mud puddles. I purposely decide not to look, 'all of this is washable' I try to convince myself. Right away, this young couple's difficult situation becomes evident. I am so touched by their lives, I woke up early this morning thinking abt them and praying for wisdom. After Kennedy lost both his parents last year, they moved to Kitwe in hopes of better lives. It has been 7 months now of no work, no money, no relatives around to help (this is huge in Zambia) rent not payed, and often going to bed at night with no food... Their faces are so sweet even as they tell of their misery. Their 4 yr old son warms up to the girls. Chickens are flying as high as they can. CHANDA and I talk abt some small 'business' opportunities. The most realistic one is selling food at the corner of her street. Fritas (zambian doughnuts), popcorn, crackers... those have low starting costs and I told her I might be able to help her with it. Using caution in situations like that is probably the wisest thing to do. There are so many needs everywhere, we could be doing this all day and not have enough time with a lifetime. But my heart is deeply touched and I can't deny it. KENNEDY hops in the car with us to show us the way out and makes a statement that almost brought tears to my eyes. Of all my years in Africa, I've never heard a husband talk like that of his wife, especially being in the situation they're in. He said: "I have to say one thing abt my wife, she doesn't ask for the things that other people have, she is very patient..." You would have to know this culture to know how touching this is.
Charles is a faithful disciple in our church who makes and sells crackers to retailers for a living. I think selling those would be a great start for Chanda. We'll start with KR 50 ($10) worth of crackers, abt 25 little packs and see if she can sell them fast enough to be profitable for their family.
Yesterday a big quantity of wood and cement was delivered on the church property and a night guard was needed to guaranty they would still be there in the morning. Kennedy was asked to fill the job for the next 3 days! Praise God, God is already answering my prayers and giving him work. He's a taxi driver but without a license, noone will let him drive their car in Kitwe. We will look into how much that costs.
Please pray for them, we have encouraged them to put God first and to see what He will do. I am excited to be part of their lives someway or another.
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-We are on our way, but where did you say you are?
-I’m on the bus, going through Chimwemwe! I’m coming just now!
Chimwemwe… one of the largest compounds of Zambia! Aie! This could take a long time. Oh well, we’re now parked on the side of the road, eating JIGGIES - little individual bags of puffed corn, 500 KWACHAS each, and sipping on carefully boiled and filtered water. Jediah met Matthews a few days ago on that same corner. We want to meet his wife and family, know where he lives, here in BUCHI, the very populated but not so popular area where Greater Grace Kitwe just acquired land and started building a men’s dorm and a foundation to put a tent up for church meetings.
The sun is slowly going down, JIGGIES are almost gone, little hands and feet in back seat are getting antsy, we’re watching people as they walk by, some staring back at us, others oblivious to us MUZUNGUS sitting in the car. The vehicle we own is the very type of car used for all the taxis in Kitwe! One way to go a bit incognito Thank God for a husband who starts commenting on the humorous culturally different images walking and driving in front of us. Suddenly a car stops in front of us and out of it emerges 2 girls one of which can barely stand, she takes one step and collapses on the hood of our car. The men back in the car are very amused. It’s such a sad scene. The drunk girl’s girlfriend is not willing to tell us how she got so drunk but seems in a hurry to take her away. A few steps and she’s on the dusty ground throwing up. Kezia, 4 years old, is watching from the backseat, asking questions, perplexed. Alcohol in Zambia is a strange phenomenon, nobody thinks anything of it. There are bars at every corner in this area. Drinking is absolutely normal and acceptable. Finally Matthews calls, he won’t make it any time soon. It’s dark now anyways and not so safe for us to be out here after sundown. So we have done nothing, but then again, is it about that? Our family was at the right place, at the right time. We would have killed each other anyways had we stayed home.
This afternoon, remembering her Sunday school lesson about building on a rock, Kezia exclaims: ‘That girl the other night, she was not standing on the rock…’ To the point. I’m so grateful to be building our family –though in very insignificant ways at times- on the Rock, here, there, at home, overseas, anywhere.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-6670226760333780552012-11-26T20:34:00.003+01:002012-11-26T20:43:33.955+01:00HERE WE COME AGAIN ZAMBIA!!We just got our return to Zambia tickets! Praise God! Though we only bought one way tickets it was still a large sum, and we are so thankful on this pre-thanksgiving particularly- that we were able to purchase them!
we will be leaving on a thursday december 20th! Stopping in France (since we were already scheduled to stop in europe) and will spend Christmas with my sweet sister Melody and her amazing family.
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MELODY AND P> BEAUGARD ADANLEDJI
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and their adorably delicious FABIEN, 4 & ALYCIA, 1
They are missionaries in France. Please keep them in your prayers! France is less than 1% evangelical. that's right, not even 1%!! A week after that Jediah will head over to Lusaka, Zambia while i stay in france with the girls another couple weeks. The plan is that he will land in Lusaka, probably stay with team members for a night or two, rent a truck and a driver, load up the truck with our belongings, and head up north -abt 6 hrs- and move in our new 'miracle house', in KITWE where the Speedy family has been living for 4 years.
So the countdown has started, technically 2 weeks to pack the house, then our wish is to find a place to move into for our last few days here. This should enable us to vacate our place properly and move anything we are storing away -still looking for a place for that- during those last days.
SOME GOOD MEMORIES FROM LAST YEAR:
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-80935468126708951332012-09-16T23:01:00.000+02:002012-09-16T23:34:31.501+02:00WE'RE STILL IN BALTIMORE!.. and what a great place to be 'stuck'
for a lil while longer. Below are photos
of amazing friends we have been blessed
to spend time with.
Jesse and Kendra Beaty are the parents of
Randy 4,
Naphtaly 3,
Eden 2 and Valor almost 1 -and foster parents
for Nicolas, whom
they hope to adopt.
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One day we all piled up in their 15 passenger van
and headed for VA where Jesse's
family lives. His mom and 2 sisters spoiled us that week end
and we had sweet times of fellowship.
Here, playing Carcassonne...! The heat is on! [ps. do not play this game
if you do not LOOOOVE competition. i'm just sayin :P]
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This is a family of 7 children who were missionaries
to China for 20 years!! I know better than to
idealize missionaries - they're/we're just humans-
but these pple are truly inspiring.
Jesse and Kendra have plans to take their family to a foreign land someday in the near future. Amen to living by faith and taking families on adventures with God!
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LIVING ON THE EDGE OF SANITY, YET WISER THAN THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36078147.post-9180934924109180042012-07-06T16:50:00.001+02:002012-07-06T17:39:37.642+02:00SUMMER MONTHS IN BALTIMORE 2012
family time and ordination
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