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I know you’ve been going through extreme withdrawal after my almost-daily posting in December and early January!  I didn’t mean to go cold turkey there, but we’ve been busy with some projects and I haven’t had much time to post.<\/p>\n

There are two major things we’ve been busy with<\/b>, aside from the general business of life.  First, I’ve been working on something for CAM<\/a> – a website, which Lord willing I can tell you about in a few days.  We’re just working through a few more things before we launch it.  Today I met with Bryan Smith<\/a> from Querétaro and Rod Fry<\/a> from Ixtapaluca, and we talked with Scott Yinging<\/a> on the phone, and got together some great ideas for the site.<\/p>\n

Also, we’re trying to get our plans together for the year ahead.  I got together with Rod earlier this week, and the men of our church met together Thursday night, and the women of the church have also been meeting and planning.<\/p>\n

Lord willing we’ll get together with the Frys, and also some other cohorts here in Mexico, in the days and weeks ahead for even more<\/i> planning.<\/p>\n

As you might imagine, we’re ready to get past all this planning and into more action<\/i>!  But it’s helpful to look at the year ahead, and we would appreciate your prayers as we make decisions for the next few months.<\/p>\n

This planning involves not only some of our week to week goals, but decisions like – what we’ll do after our orientation year ends (this summer), decisions regarding Hannah and Nathanael’s school next year (and adjustments to what we’re doing this year), and how we’ll work together with a team of people in this part of Mexico.<\/p>\n

Other than that – the busy-ness of life!  Which has been no small thing in itself.  We continue to struggle with our kids’ homework schedule – I would like to write more of an explanation about that later, but we would appreciate your prayers.<\/p>\n

But some good news<\/b> – we got an armoire kind of furniture thingme for Hannah’s room!  That will be a big help, since she has no closet or dresser.  So our quest to have a "fully" set up house continues.  Next?  Get something so we don’t have to sleep on a mattress on the floor (as you may recall, our box spring didn’t fit up the stairs), and some curtains (although thanks to Grandpa Winger we now have an actual blind on one of our windows! (He also fixed another leak – thanks!)).<\/p>\n

Our church worship music band is also getting back into the swing of things, meeting for some sharing and prayer on Saturdays, and to practise of course.  Prayer meeting was great this week.  Yes, lots going on…. which reminds me…. I’m tired…. gotta go….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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