Ops I forgot!

I forgot to post this! This is an article written by Mindi, who I lived with last summer. She is working in Ethiopia this summer- check out her blog! The article talks about the initial contact we had with the village behind our compound last summer.

Update Update Update!

I write from Sacramento! YES! I live here! I just got carpet and lino in my new place and can't wait to officially move in this weekend. I am LOVING my job! The girls are sweet and the parents are super relaxed! I am definitely feeling like this is right. Finally! Praise God!

On a not as exciting note, my nephew, Noah is sick sick. Long story but basically he is in the hospital with a resistant case of pneumonia. After days of breathing treatments and antibiotics in the hospital it looks like they will knock him out today, take a CT scan on his lungs and do a procedure where they look in his lungs and hopefully remove whatever is left in his lungs. He is surprisingly upbeat and happy-go-lucky for his situation. Shadowridge, Andrew and Amy's church has been awesome coordinating home-made and healthy meals for them at the hospital. Mr. Noah Bean has a sweet supply of new toys and watches lots of Elmo and Pooh. They have lots of visitors to keep Noah distracted and the hospital staff has been great too! So please, keep Noah, Andrew and Amy and their doctors in your prayers!

Here he is watching t.v. from his crib in the hospital

This is Noah listening to a story "Uncle Dan" was reading to him. So sweet.I'll pictures of the new place up once I get my "new" hand-me-down camera from Amy!

My good friends Ruby and Jeremiah just got back from another trip to Malawi. They went with a team from my San Diego church, Flood to commission our church plant there, Flood Malawi! They had a great time and the grand opening service at Flood Malawi had over 100 people present! What a blessing for them to see so much hard work come to fruition (I love that word). I loved every one of Ruby's pictures but here are a few that I think are extra special!

Here is the dynamic duo reunited in Mtsiliza! Thoko adores Jeremiah and although they said he was shy at first clearly loved seeing his auntie and uncle again!

Thoko and Ruby! His face looks so much older than last year, you can check the older blogs, pictures are up of him. We're a little concerned about his health because of his eyes and legs but he is in the feeding program now so hopefully that will help him out. We love that little monster.

The Flood team got to attend this years African Bible College graduation where our Pastor, Matt "P Matt" was the speaker! Yay! Here is Chikondi, she interned at Mtsiliza with us getting ready to walk! So exciting!Thomasin "Tamsen" lived with us last summer and she was the Valedictorian! Go Tam!
Here are some of the widows we worked with last summer when they saw Ruby and Jeremiah. They said they went CRAZY as you can see by their faces! They were dancing, singing, chanting and crying! Oh to live with that kind of passion for people...

This is Jeremiah, Graden (a friend from San Diego), Promise, Ruby and Z. Promise and Z lived and worked with us last year too!
Ruby and Jmaih got to see Miriam and Chance too! They are engaged and will get married next year. Miriam graduated from ABC last year and worked with us at Njewa and Chance has graduated from ABC too and spent last summer working in Uganda. He is now helping to run the Njewa site and work in Lilongwe. The girls doing the internship this summer will get to spent lots of time with him! They're awesome!Ill try to post again soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!