From time to time we post a blog to let you all know the little nuts and bolts of what we are up to these days...the mundane details of "real life." However, some of you have indicated you enjoy these posts even more than the grand dissections of missions philosophy often found here. If that is the case for you, enjoy!
*Lynn and the kids started the year of homeschooling this week. Everything is off and running, and the kids are doing well. This approach will allow us flexibility with travel. Kester and Elizabeth are tackling guitar this year in music class.
*We continue to make plans for a trip to Haiti in October. Our old friends there are gradually catching wind of this plan and contacting us to express their excitement. It will be fun to see them all again...and emotional.
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| Santia, Lynn's friend and former student Check out this link to learn more: 10 Adventures in 10 Days- Santia |
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| Lucner and Family, Directors of the Deaf/Disabled School in Les Cayes See link: "Native Led = Spirit Led" (has info about Lucner) |
*We live in a double-wide trailer. The two sections are cracking apart! We are checking around to try to get help fixing this before the situation gets worse, and hopefully it will be covered by our warranty. Oh, the little trials in life, but they are nothing compared with what an average Haitian faces on a daily basis! Thanks for that little reminder, Lord.
*We continue to work on obtaining our non-profit status. Currently we are completing the 501c3 (tax exempt) application, a lengthy document. Then we will submit that to the IRS and await their approval, Lord willing. In the meantime our church has agreed to handle donations to the ministry. We met with them on Sunday and ironed out some of those details to get more clarity on both sides. See "Current Ministry Needs Update" tab above for more info.
*Cory's parents are currently in Germany visiting Christian Knoedl, our former foreign-exchange student who is virtually a sibling in the family at this point. This trip is a celebration of their 40th anniversary.
*We are in talks with a few host churches about doing our program, "A Concert of Prayer for Missions." We are in need of more potential locations to do this and sense a heavy burden to share with people in this region what God has been teaching us.
*We had a chance to meet with Mike and Heidi Vetter and Dan and Kari Elliot (missionaries in Haiti back for a visit) on Tuesday to discuss the trip to Haiti in October. We had a good conversation and a lot of laughs. Good people!
*Special thanks to George A. Bonnema of Luverne for being our personal "farmer's market" (for free!) as he likes to call it. He has brought us a fridge-load of fresh produce the last few weeks. We will be eating some of his sweet corn today for lunch! Awesome!
*After working on Bible memorization for almost 10 years, I (Cory) let that discipline go when we left Haiti a year and a half ago, due to the trauma of what we went through at that time. It felt like that treasure was snatched out of my hands. However, by the grace of God over the last few weeks I have been gaining it all back. It might be better to say "dusting it off" as the verses are still pretty much there. Praise God! I have a whole separate blog about that stuff which I will introduce here sometime in the future.
Here is a quote for you to consider today in your adventure:
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.
May your everyday life be an adventure for Jesus today!
-the grimm family adventurers
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