for our supporters

Many of you have asked via e-mail or in person how to support us. And here is how it works. You need to go to this site. It has the information you will need to follow for supporting us in this ministry. This is a page for AMG Guatemala. It is pretty self explanatory. It shows all about the other missionaries that we will be serving with in Guatemala as well as what the ministry is about for those of you who are not clear on what AMG does. I am not sure what level we are at yet, but I will try to let you know as soon as we know!

What have we been up to? It has been a whirlwind month! We have had a lot of physical illnesses and set backs in our family this month and not all in our immediate family. It started with my nephew who is 12 (the same age as our Betsy, and they are very close) he was hit by a car while he was running across the street. God had His hand on the whole situation and it is amazing to look at how He had it all under control. I could give you a big long story of this but, I will spare you of it. He has 2 broken femurs and was in a wheelchair up until this past week. He is WALKING!! (with help of a walker!)this was originally thought that it wouldn't happen until sometime in January! He is doing great! Keep praying for him he still has a long way to go...rods need to come out of his legs sometime in the spring!

Next my grandmother has been seeing the signs of old age (she is almost 92) many different illnesses are taking over her body and she "just wants to go home". She does have her moments that she has us in stitches!! but mostly she is in bed sleeping and just biding her time! She has been in and out of the hospital many times in the past few months. Most recently a few days after Alex's' accident.

After the calm of all that happened between Alex and Grandma, Meg decided that she would allow an abscess tooth to take over her face. It was very bad. I knew it was bad, but had no idea what some of the side effects from this could have been. Praise God she is fine!!
The first picture here was the Saturday evening right after the tooth was pulled, the second one was her second day in the hospital. See the difference...We spent 3 days in the hospital having IV antibiotics! Not much fun for her! But she is doing much better now! (after 2 weeks!)

These things seem to have taken over our lives for the past month!!

So that was our little update for you all to know where we are.

Thanks for keeping us in your prayers!

what can you be praying for?

Here is a short list of things that we as a family would cherish your prayers for.

1. Meetings!! We need them and we also, have the potential of being involved with 3 back to back Missions Conferences. (ours being one of them) Phil is heading it up we are not speaking at our own.

2. Sale of our house! We really would like to be out of this house and be able to focus more of our time and energy on deputation. Phil needs to work right now to pay the mortgage so if we were out from under it, it would free him up a bit for other meetings!

3. Home schooling the children. So far we have had a great few weeks. It is so much easier schooling 4 of them that just 1 and trying to juggle all the other things in around it, with everyone on the same sort of schedule it makes it much easier!

4. Unity in the family. We are all overwhelmed with the changes that God has been bringing into our lives, as parents (and adults) we can often see what God is doing. As children (teens especially) I think it is hard to understand what is going on and can make for some difficult days!

5. Our new Pastoral candidate at church. He will be coming up this weekend with his family for a time to meet the people at the church. We will be able to hear him preach on Sunday. And a jam packed weekend for them with Q &A time, dessert night, ladies brunch, men's breakfast, afternoon visiting, fellowship...I know it will be an exciting time for all and an exhausting time as well.

I think that should do it for now...I just needed to post and let you know where we are.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and see where we are in our process. And thanks for praying with us!