Update: 9.26.09

Good afternoon everyone

This past week at school was a busy but very productive one.

But before I get into all of that I wanted to let everyone know that Jackie is doing better with her health issues. Currently she is taking 7 different medications. They think everything that she is dealing all relates to the same thing....stress! We are not shocked by this, but what the doctors here don't understand is that Jackie has been dealing with a lot of these issues for a long time. However, we do believe that stress is probably one main reason for the severity of her issues lately. I mean I guess stress is to be expected when you are a first year teacher, you move out of the country, leave family and friends, switch churches, new culture, etc. Hopefully as the year progresses Jackie will start to feel better. Please keep her in your prayers though.

This week we were busy at school as usual with a couple of more things added on. We were able to speak in High School chapel this week and we spoke on Dating and Relationships. The kids responded well to the talk and we really enjoyed being able to share our story and advice with them. It has led to some really good conversations with the students so we were thankful for that.

We also had our student council flower sale to raise money for our retrearts and different trips. Things went really well. The funny thing is that we bought 600 carnations for $12.50US and then about 125 Roses for about $20 US. Flowers are sooooo cheap here.

Today we just had our Fun Fair at school (food, games, competitions, kareoke, etc.) and all of the proceeds go towards the new addition on the school. It was a lot of fun and a lot of families were here. The interesting thing is having Military Police at your event...I guess that is normal in Colombia.

We are looking forward to this next week because it will be the end of the first quarter for us. It is amazing to think we are almost done with the first quarter though and we have been here for over two months now.

Some prayer requests would be for:

This Saturday we have a ministry day with one of the families at the school.

Jackie's health

We are still at about 80% financial support.

Our impact on the students here at the school.