A family update!

It has been a little while since we have had a family update on this blog.  As you can see we have been busy with a team.  Four members of the team stayed here for 10 days.  It was a blessing to have them in our house.  We enjoyed catching up with friends and making new friends.  We enjoyed the fellowship, the worship and the companionship.  What we, as a family, loved most about this team was the how well they interacted with our secondary students when they were working with them.  They took the time to teach and to mentor.  A lot of time was spent in communication.  Lots of talking, lots of laughter and having a good time.  Each team member got to know the people they were working with.  This was a joy to see happen on a daily basis.

Before the team arrived we had the mom and dad Beintema in town.  We loved having them here.  They got to see where we lived, we were are living now, the work that we do, the church we attend, the roads we drive on, where we shop and the list goes on and on.  It was a pleasure showing them around, it was a pleasure having them here.  We will miss them and look forward to seeing them when we return in March and May.  When we took them to the beach it was much needed break for our family.  We spent two whole days on the beach with very little people to share it with.  Nice and quiet and peaceful.

Before we had the Beintemas in we had some pastors from the OPC and PCA churches staying at our house.  We also had the director of Word and Deed over for about three days.

So all in all we have had a lot of company in the past month.  It has been nice to have lots of people visit and spoil Chloe.  It is nice to have people to chat with for long hours of the night.  But it is also nice to have personal space back.  We are getting back into a routine.  We are settlling down.  Chloe was excited to go back to school and see her teachers.  (She just had a week off for spring break.)  The baby continues to grow inside of Mindy, we can see the progress happening.  It is such a blessing.  Adoration Christian Centre continues to be a place of business.  People coming and going.  Teachers teaching, students learning, ministers preaching, doctors helping, students cleaning and the list goes on and on.  It is a blessing to see all this activity happening.  But at the same time there is so much need.  People continue to get sick, some people even pass away.  The Lodders and ourselves are called to minister, to help, to talk and to make some tough decisions.  Please pray for us as we continue with our work.  Pray for patience, for gentleness, for direction in making the right decisions.  Please pray for God to guide and lead us and to put our trust in Him alone.  Please pray that we may do our work to His honour and glory, to do it for Him and not for ourselves.