Beginning a New Phase

Not a lot has happened since we've been home, but it has been wonderful to spend unhurried time with family. Tim has begun working construction with a guy in our church, but since it is not full time he will hopefully be able to devote a lot of time to preparing for our time of partnership development that we have just begun. Speaking of partnership development, (also known as deputation) the time has come that we are looking for individuals and churches to partner with us in prayer, encouragement, and financial support as we look towards ministering to tribal people in Papua New Guinea. I can't stress enough how important you, our friends and supporters are to us. We need your prayers, encouragement, and friendship. We know that as we set out in this work there is NO way that we can do it on our own. It is ONLY by the grace of God that we can have an effective part in this amazing task. 

Please pray for us that we will continually seek the Lord first and pursue a close walk with Him. We also appreciate your encouragement--dropping us a note to say hi or that you are praying for us means a great deal. It can be lonely at times so far from home and knowing you are thinking of us make the distance a little less. Finally, we are looking for monthly financial supporters that will be a part of our team. Papua New Guinea is one of the most expensive fields to go to within New Tribes. The country is very underdeveloped and so many things have to be imported from Australia. Not to mention that once we are in the tribe our expenses will include things like paying for a plane to fly in our supplies and groceries. At this point, we are receiving about 25% of what the mission recommends for our monthly financial support. If you know of any church, Sunday school, or small group/Bible study that would be willing to have us come share what God is doing around the world, please let us know. We are so excited to share what God has been teaching us and of the exciting work of tribal church planting. 

On a different note, some have mentioned that they would enjoy seeing some more pictures of the boys so here are just a few.....

Noah loves to "work hard!" and here he is with his new

 and real tool set from his Aunt Kim.

Micah has such a personality and it is fun to see that develop.

Micah has been working very hard on crawling. Here he is on 

Christmas Eve as he was just figuring things out. Now

we have to keep a close eye on him as he can scoot very

quickly across the floor after anything that interests him. 

What we've been up to...

So, Christmas has come and gone and we have begun a New Year. We were so busy with packing and moving that we hardly had time to think about Christmas so we weren't much in the "Christmas spirit," but we enjoyed the time being with family and remembering the wonderful reason that we celebrate. We then went to my (Tiffany's) cousin's wedding down in the LA area and so we had more traveling, but again we had a wonderful time. I was able to reconnect with family I hadn't seen in awhile and since I had already missed two other cousin's weddings I was glad to be able to finally go to one!

Noah and his stocking on Christmas morning

Santa Baby

My cousin and his beautiful bride

There was dancing at the wedding and Noah had a blast. Here he is asking the flower girl to dance. She was quite shy and would only dance if her aunt joined them. Noah loves telling the story of how she just put her hands on her cheeks and "wouldn't talk."

My sister Kim and her friend Carl dancing at the wedding. 

Here is a video of Noah dancing with Kim. He was very anxious to dance and so they were the first ones on the dance floor. Oh my, and he is only two!