Our Fourth Month

We've been here 1/3 of a year! Over the last month, we´ve really enjoyed getting to spend the extra time at the children´s home and begin connecting with some of the kids there. We´re really looking forward to our first Christmas at NLCH (complete with photos and stories for all of you), as well as a trip to Costa Rica with some of the kids in early January. We´re so thankful to be part of such a wonderful ministry. At the same time, though, we´re overwhelmed by the importance of the kind of work for which we´ve come here. We don´t have it in us to be able to overcome the language/culture barrier and connect with teenagers in a way that will invite them deeper and deeper into the kind of life that God has for them... but we´re thankful for that. We´re more dependent on the Holy Spirit and on prayer than we have been in ministry before.

We´ve also become more aware that our time in language school is winding down. In some ways we´re glad about that, but not completely. We´ll have 5 more weeks of school in January, but after this week we have to move out of our host family´s house. We hope that we´ll be able to return to them in January, but there will be a lot of new students coming while we´re gone to NLCH, so it´s pretty likely that we´ll have to start over with a new family for our last 5 weeks. This has started to feel like a home to us, so the prospect of changing again isn´t very appealing.

Our fifth month holds a lot in store...