Andrew & I (Kim) will be leaving this Friday early AM along with about 103 other people (high school youth and leaders) to three small towns of Montana. The name of the three towns, so that you can be praying for them by name, are Plains, Superior and Deer Lodge. Our teams will be putting on VBS in all three towns, doing community development (fixing things, painting, maintainance, chopping wood, delivery of wood and food etc), community outreach events and prison ministry in Deer Lodge.
Please be praying for
* safety for travel
* safety in the towns as we all work on sites and interact with the town people
* open hearts of the children and adults we encounter in each town
* opportunities for each of us to share our faith and testimonies
* against the enemy who would not want us there reaching these towns for Christ
* follow-up: that the churches are able to welcome and disciple the people who accept Jesus and need a church home to learn and grow
Also, please be praying for Paul, Joshua and Matthew who will be home. Joshua and Matthew will be spending the weekdays we are gone at family friends homes and Paul will be working. Pray for their well-being!
I am so excited to get to go out with the youth on this mission trip. It is always such a blessing to work with kids who are eager to share their faith and aren't held back by the "status quo" of the world yet. I learn so much about myself and my own fear to stretch myself and go outside my comfort zone in order to win people to Christ. And it is fun too! =D
We leave on Friday, July 25th and return Saturday, August 2nd in the afternoon. We would appreciate everyone being on their knees to help prepare the way and sustain us while we are there.
Thank you!
Kim
Monday, July 21, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
Back in the swing of things...
Our family has just returned from a road trip vacation and want to try to get on track with the work of getting our family ready to go by November of this year. This doesn't mean we will be leaving at the time, unless the Lord has that planned, but we want to be standing ready to serve our Father whenever He sees us ready.
You can be praying for ways for us to reach others outside of our wonderful church family for financial support. This can happen in many ways from us sending information to churches we don't really know, to having friends who go to other churches give information about us to their pastor or missions directors, or to having friends give dinners/lunches/desserts for people outside our immediate circle whom we can share our mission plans with. You can pray for the Lord to open doors to the people who have a heart for supporting missionaries on a long term basis. We believe God can provide more people than we can imagine!
On June 11th, we had a wonderful visit from Mike & Janet and they shared with 35 people what they are doing overseas and how they saw us fitting into the ministry there. It was very encouraging and refreshing for us to see them. It was like they helped rekindle the flame in our hearts to be there working among the people of Ch. There are some things you can be praying for in regards to what is going on over there and there are some things to be praising the Father for.
Here is some information directly from Mike & Janet for you to take to the Father in praise and prayer:
* We received notice yesterday that the local security bureau will be making undercover inspections of all the training centers to make sure all the regulations governing foreigners are being followed. Fortunately this came as a forewarning but it means that the "games" paranoia is expanding. Often these kinds of activities amount to harassment so, please pray that we will not experience unnecessary difficulty during this time. They also told us that the provincial security bureau will conducting their own undercover operations which means they don't trust the locals to do their job well or perhaps that they are looking for some specific kind of "results". We know we are here at His direction. We want to be wise and innocent.
* Visa regulations have changed again. Now it is necessary for all foreigners to apply for work visas from their home country. That means we can no longer get them here or even go out to HK or Thailand to apply for them. This is an additional burden that we will have to find ways to overcome.
* We have almost 35 young people heading out of the city on short term mission trips to a number of locations in Ch. Some will do English camps in house churches and other groups, some will be collecting language data among minority people's villages for the development of better evangelistic material, and some will be doing relief work in the earthquake areas. Pray for their safety and for the unity among them; they are from a number of different schools an different church groups that don't have a good sense of unity. Janet will be involved in the next week or so with the final training of the English teaching teams and Jake & Mike have the responsibility to prepare them spiritually.
We appreciate all of your prayers on their behalf.
Blessings,
Kim & Paul
You can be praying for ways for us to reach others outside of our wonderful church family for financial support. This can happen in many ways from us sending information to churches we don't really know, to having friends who go to other churches give information about us to their pastor or missions directors, or to having friends give dinners/lunches/desserts for people outside our immediate circle whom we can share our mission plans with. You can pray for the Lord to open doors to the people who have a heart for supporting missionaries on a long term basis. We believe God can provide more people than we can imagine!
On June 11th, we had a wonderful visit from Mike & Janet and they shared with 35 people what they are doing overseas and how they saw us fitting into the ministry there. It was very encouraging and refreshing for us to see them. It was like they helped rekindle the flame in our hearts to be there working among the people of Ch. There are some things you can be praying for in regards to what is going on over there and there are some things to be praising the Father for.
Here is some information directly from Mike & Janet for you to take to the Father in praise and prayer:
* We received notice yesterday that the local security bureau will be making undercover inspections of all the training centers to make sure all the regulations governing foreigners are being followed. Fortunately this came as a forewarning but it means that the "games" paranoia is expanding. Often these kinds of activities amount to harassment so, please pray that we will not experience unnecessary difficulty during this time. They also told us that the provincial security bureau will conducting their own undercover operations which means they don't trust the locals to do their job well or perhaps that they are looking for some specific kind of "results". We know we are here at His direction. We want to be wise and innocent.
* Visa regulations have changed again. Now it is necessary for all foreigners to apply for work visas from their home country. That means we can no longer get them here or even go out to HK or Thailand to apply for them. This is an additional burden that we will have to find ways to overcome.
* We have almost 35 young people heading out of the city on short term mission trips to a number of locations in Ch. Some will do English camps in house churches and other groups, some will be collecting language data among minority people's villages for the development of better evangelistic material, and some will be doing relief work in the earthquake areas. Pray for their safety and for the unity among them; they are from a number of different schools an different church groups that don't have a good sense of unity. Janet will be involved in the next week or so with the final training of the English teaching teams and Jake & Mike have the responsibility to prepare them spiritually.
We appreciate all of your prayers on their behalf.
Blessings,
Kim & Paul
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Latest Newsletter
I am in the process of getting our newsletter typed and sent out. It seems like it should be a rather simple task but it never seems to turn out that way. =D If you are not on our mailing list to receive our newsletters or are not on our email list, please let us know.
Be praying for the people of "Ch" as they are suffer through surviving this earthquake. They need the hope of the Lord as they grieve their loved ones, search for the missing and rebuild after such an event.
Be praying for the people of "Ch" as they are suffer through surviving this earthquake. They need the hope of the Lord as they grieve their loved ones, search for the missing and rebuild after such an event.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Hi everyone,
Many are wondering about whether or not we will still be going overseas and if so, what is going on. These are great questions. The last month or so, we both have felt like it is time to get "back on the horse" and bring back the focus of getting ourselves "ready" for the mission field. We know that we have to be here at least until November for me to have another scan to make sure the treatment I had in January did the job it was meant to do. At first we took that as another road block or somewhat of a disappointment, but were encouraged by a dear friend who told us there was no reason we couldn't make ourselves ready in that time. It seemed somewhat like a "no brainer" but it lifted us up and helped bring our thoughts back in line with where the Lord wants us to be.
We have been at this for the past 3 years now and it has been difficult in so many different ways. But, oh how the Lord has been so faithful to teach us and grow us to rely on Him. Everyday I notice how much I thought I relied on Him before and yet I rely on Him more today than yesterday. I see so much growth in my husband and the more I step out of the way and allow God to move Paul, the more in awe I am of both of them. What more can I ask for? How can I continue to question God's reasoning for why this or that is happening (or not happening) when He has shown Himself purposeful and so accurate in assessing what we need to move us towards His goal for us.
So what now? As we work on getting back on track, we could use prayer as we pursue partners for our mission work, be diligent with our time for prayer with each other, and for us to continue in our trusting in the Lord's direction for our family. We are currently working on getting a newsletter out, we will start compiling a packet to give to churches as we seek church partners, and organizing a "plan" or "to do" list of how to meet the needs that will get us from where we are now to being ready in November. This doesn't necessarily mean we will leave in November but we want to stand ready for when the Lord decides it is time.
If for some reason you are not on our mailing list, please contact us via email so we can be sending you our updates. We appreciate all of our family and friends and their desire to support us in this call on our lives. We love you!
Kim
Many are wondering about whether or not we will still be going overseas and if so, what is going on. These are great questions. The last month or so, we both have felt like it is time to get "back on the horse" and bring back the focus of getting ourselves "ready" for the mission field. We know that we have to be here at least until November for me to have another scan to make sure the treatment I had in January did the job it was meant to do. At first we took that as another road block or somewhat of a disappointment, but were encouraged by a dear friend who told us there was no reason we couldn't make ourselves ready in that time. It seemed somewhat like a "no brainer" but it lifted us up and helped bring our thoughts back in line with where the Lord wants us to be.
We have been at this for the past 3 years now and it has been difficult in so many different ways. But, oh how the Lord has been so faithful to teach us and grow us to rely on Him. Everyday I notice how much I thought I relied on Him before and yet I rely on Him more today than yesterday. I see so much growth in my husband and the more I step out of the way and allow God to move Paul, the more in awe I am of both of them. What more can I ask for? How can I continue to question God's reasoning for why this or that is happening (or not happening) when He has shown Himself purposeful and so accurate in assessing what we need to move us towards His goal for us.
So what now? As we work on getting back on track, we could use prayer as we pursue partners for our mission work, be diligent with our time for prayer with each other, and for us to continue in our trusting in the Lord's direction for our family. We are currently working on getting a newsletter out, we will start compiling a packet to give to churches as we seek church partners, and organizing a "plan" or "to do" list of how to meet the needs that will get us from where we are now to being ready in November. This doesn't necessarily mean we will leave in November but we want to stand ready for when the Lord decides it is time.
If for some reason you are not on our mailing list, please contact us via email so we can be sending you our updates. We appreciate all of our family and friends and their desire to support us in this call on our lives. We love you!
Kim
Monday, January 28, 2008
Recovery Update
Greetings to all of you, our family and friends,
It has now been one week since I received treatment for my thyroid cancer. I won't go into too many details of the process or anything else, but just want you to know that I am no longer glowing at this point and am doing ok. I am still having some small residual side effects from the treatment as well as starting back on thyroid meds, but overall am functioning to the best of my ability. It will take some time for me to balance back out and get my strength, normal vision and thought process back. I will go in this Wednesday for another full body scan to make sure the treatment did its job. As far as I know, last weeks treatment should be all that I need to get rid of the cancer. Of course, we don't know for sure but our Lord does and that is all the matters to us at the moment! =D
People are still wanting to know how to be praying for us. I guess I would ask for patience. I know it can be a scary request when we decide to ask the Lord for patience but I don't deal very well with a slow recovery process. I want my body to just be back to normal right away and it just doesn't work that way. So I need to continue to rely on the Lord and remain humble in needing to slow down and even ask those around me for help until I am back on my feet. Mostly, our hearts are with Paul's dad who still is in the hospital trying to endure the process of fighting GVHD (Graft Verses Host Disease). Though they, Paul's parents, rely on the strength of our Father to carry them through this, they can grow tired and weary. We want to be able to be there as much as possible for them and desire them to feel the love of the Lord in their lives.
We want to say thank you to all of you who have helped us physically, offered to support our family and all the prayers that have been said on our behalf. We couldn't ask for a better prayer warriors and loving people to be part of our lives. We love and appreciate each and every one of you.
Blessings,
Kim & Paul
It has now been one week since I received treatment for my thyroid cancer. I won't go into too many details of the process or anything else, but just want you to know that I am no longer glowing at this point and am doing ok. I am still having some small residual side effects from the treatment as well as starting back on thyroid meds, but overall am functioning to the best of my ability. It will take some time for me to balance back out and get my strength, normal vision and thought process back. I will go in this Wednesday for another full body scan to make sure the treatment did its job. As far as I know, last weeks treatment should be all that I need to get rid of the cancer. Of course, we don't know for sure but our Lord does and that is all the matters to us at the moment! =D
People are still wanting to know how to be praying for us. I guess I would ask for patience. I know it can be a scary request when we decide to ask the Lord for patience but I don't deal very well with a slow recovery process. I want my body to just be back to normal right away and it just doesn't work that way. So I need to continue to rely on the Lord and remain humble in needing to slow down and even ask those around me for help until I am back on my feet. Mostly, our hearts are with Paul's dad who still is in the hospital trying to endure the process of fighting GVHD (Graft Verses Host Disease). Though they, Paul's parents, rely on the strength of our Father to carry them through this, they can grow tired and weary. We want to be able to be there as much as possible for them and desire them to feel the love of the Lord in their lives.
We want to say thank you to all of you who have helped us physically, offered to support our family and all the prayers that have been said on our behalf. We couldn't ask for a better prayer warriors and loving people to be part of our lives. We love and appreciate each and every one of you.
Blessings,
Kim & Paul
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Where are we?
I know many of you are wondering if we fell off the face of the earth and if we hadn't, why isn't the blogsite updated!! Well, I wish I had a glorious story to tell you, but the reality is, I haven't been as good at doing this as I had hoped I would. So to the few of you that look at this, please except my greatest apology and I will try to get on here soon to get an update. I did get some basics updated on budget, praises and prayer requests.
Thank you for all of your love and prayers for our family!
Thank you for all of your love and prayers for our family!
Monday, September 17, 2007
Overdue...
Friends,
It seems that I am not as diligent at updating this on a regular basis as I thought I would be. Please forgive me as the updates are far, few in between and then seem pretty long!
There hasn't been too much going on since our last update. We started school with the boys and this year (the first week) has been going better than last year...thank goodness. It is a lot of work and there are days that I would prefer to not have to get up to do it! I suppose we all feel that at some time or another no matter what we are waking up to for the day? But, we are thankful that we awake every morning and are eager to see what the Lord has in store for us.
For those who may not know, there are five families who have opened up their homes to host "gatherings". This was for us to invite everyone to come and hear about our trip to China, the people we met over there and what the work we will be doing will look like. The dates are listed below and if you are interested in coming to any, just send us an email to let us know which date would fit into your schedule the best. We are excited to have the opportunity to share with everyone in a small setting. We hope you will be able to come!
* Saturday, September 22nd, 4pm, in Graham
* Sunday, September 23rd, 5pm, in Des Moines
* Sunday, September 30th, 3pm, in Federal Way (Marine Hills)
* Monday, October 1st, 7pm, in Auburn (West Hill)
* Sunday, October 7th, 2pm, in Burien
Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as the fall schedules get under way. We don't want to become consumed by our schedules and want to stay focused on the Lord and what lies ahead. We would also appreciate continued prayer for Paul's dad, Dick, and his mom, Jean. The process of preparing oneself for a transplant is both full of anticipation and down right frustration. We all know the Lord is sovereign but they continue to need His physical and emotional strength to walk this path. They are both a great testimony of perseverance in times of trouble and we pray the Lord continues to give them peace and joy amidst it as well.
It is a blessing to be able to hold each other up in prayer and we are so appreciative of the prayer that is being sent up on our behalf. We would also like to be holding up your prayer needs as well. We would be honored if you would send us an email letting us know how we can be praying for you and your families.
Blessings,
P & K
It seems that I am not as diligent at updating this on a regular basis as I thought I would be. Please forgive me as the updates are far, few in between and then seem pretty long!
There hasn't been too much going on since our last update. We started school with the boys and this year (the first week) has been going better than last year...thank goodness. It is a lot of work and there are days that I would prefer to not have to get up to do it! I suppose we all feel that at some time or another no matter what we are waking up to for the day? But, we are thankful that we awake every morning and are eager to see what the Lord has in store for us.
For those who may not know, there are five families who have opened up their homes to host "gatherings". This was for us to invite everyone to come and hear about our trip to China, the people we met over there and what the work we will be doing will look like. The dates are listed below and if you are interested in coming to any, just send us an email to let us know which date would fit into your schedule the best. We are excited to have the opportunity to share with everyone in a small setting. We hope you will be able to come!
* Saturday, September 22nd, 4pm, in Graham
* Sunday, September 23rd, 5pm, in Des Moines
* Sunday, September 30th, 3pm, in Federal Way (Marine Hills)
* Monday, October 1st, 7pm, in Auburn (West Hill)
* Sunday, October 7th, 2pm, in Burien
Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as the fall schedules get under way. We don't want to become consumed by our schedules and want to stay focused on the Lord and what lies ahead. We would also appreciate continued prayer for Paul's dad, Dick, and his mom, Jean. The process of preparing oneself for a transplant is both full of anticipation and down right frustration. We all know the Lord is sovereign but they continue to need His physical and emotional strength to walk this path. They are both a great testimony of perseverance in times of trouble and we pray the Lord continues to give them peace and joy amidst it as well.
It is a blessing to be able to hold each other up in prayer and we are so appreciative of the prayer that is being sent up on our behalf. We would also like to be holding up your prayer needs as well. We would be honored if you would send us an email letting us know how we can be praying for you and your families.
Blessings,
P & K
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