the craziness that has been the last two weeks

We’ve had a pretty busy, event-filled couple of weeks. The school year is over, AAE seniors have graduated, we are officially unemployed, Justin has been practicing with his All-Star team, we volunteered at Fish Fest, we had our long anticipated Applebee’s fundraiser, we shipped 6 boxes to Chicago for placement on a shipping container to Vienna, and we have reduced the belongings in our house to our clothes and the few pieces of furniture that we have yet to sell...

...and in all this, we are still hanging on to the promise that He will provide the funding for this mission. We are currently sitting at 27% of our required support...obviously we have quite a ways to go before we leave on July 31st. It has been interesting over the last weeks as we prepare for our move to Europe. We definitely have taken many steps to prepare yet there is one hurdle that we CANNOT get over on our own.

We'd love to hear from you if you could support us financially. We are in huge need of supporters giving in the 50-75 dollar range.

Also, if you are one of our faithful supporters, we have a huge favor to ask. Would you be willing to host a presentation for your friends and family. We'd love to be able to share our mission calling with as many people as possible.

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and baby makes four...

that's right...our little family will soon become a foursome. We have found out that Rebecca is 6 weeks pregnant! There is definitely "something in the water" as all the families that live within our block have recently had a baby or are currently pregnant. Our baby will be the 6th baby born to ICSV staff in a span of less than a year (first one was born in early November and we will be welcoming our new addition in September). So, kind of unexpected, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless!

Fly on the wall and shipping possibilities

We left Gjakova yesterd to go to Pristina for the night before our flight back to Vienna today (Thursday)...but before we left, Berat invited us to join him at the Bethany Christian Services Community Center for an event as part of the USAid celebration of 15 year anniversary of providing development assistance in Kosovo. We helped Berat do some last minute set up stuff, but mostly, we just sat around waiting for the show to start. Maples and Faisal spent a lot of time with some of the young men and women who were waiting to present their vision to the USAid Executive Director. Soon, the delegation from USAid arrived and took a short tour of the center, in the middle of the tour, Berat took some time to introduce the Baseball camp to them...and then graciously introduced me. The delegation was surprised and excited to hear that there were some baseball opportunities. We spoke for a short while and it turns out that the Executive Director used to oversee the Denton Prog...

Who are these kids at ICSV...

Hi everyone... The first week and a half of school has been absolutely amazing! We have had some great opportunities to begin building lasting relationships with the students that God has brought to Vienna to be educated at the International Christian School of Vienna. Rebecca has been adjusting well to her role as secondary secretary. She is learning quickly the many demands of her new role and is doing quite well in supporting us teachers and the rest of the staff. Rebecca hard at work I have been really enjoying my classes. I have a total of 43 students spread out over 4 periods. The students I have represent 14 different home nations, with many of the students who are "Austrian" are first generation, so they are of other nationalities as well. I have also had the opportunity to begin working with the soccer team...again, many nationalities are represented on the field, truly an international squad. Here are some pictures of the team training at the local club...

Johnstein!

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