We've Only Just Begun

We have been here over a month now and the time has certainly flown by. I can't believe that we are almost to the first progress reports!

Even with the time going by quickly we know we have really only started with all the work we are going to be doing. In some ways it has been good to start off slowly (if I can consider school being the slow start). But, it has been great to get into a routine with school and get a feel for all our responsibilities with teaching before we get involved in all the different ministries and extracurricular activities.

We just bought a dining room table for our apartment, which was the last big piece of furniture that we needed. It is not fun eating on a coffee table every night.

Next weekend we are excited about our staff retreat. The teachers, staff, board and administration are going to be going to "hot country" (meaning down the mountain) to a place for the weekend. We will be staying in a hotel in a beautiful part of the country. We are excited about that and getting out of the city. Bogota is starting to grow on me in certain ways, but we are definetly looking forward to going to some of the more beautiful parts of Colombia.

Keep us in your prayers as we continue to try and raise our final financial support. We are not 100% yet, but God has provided above and beyond what we thought for starting the process so late in finding financial partners.

Thank you for your continued support, encouragement and prayers for us, we really appreciate them. Just to let everyone know ahead of time we did book our flights when we come home for Christmas. So, as it gets closer make sure you contact us (if we don't contact you first) about getting together when we are in...we want to make sure we see as many of our friends and families as possible.

Have a great night and God bless!