(Marysol writes) Most professional bloggers will say never apologize that its been a while since you blogged. Well, over 5 weeks delay, in my opinion, needs an explanation. Its not for lack of content, in fact I feel I could write several posts a day! Its because we are in the most chaotic, exciting season of our life right now:
#1: CITIZENSHIP OVER
De Wet flew back to the United States and was sworn in as an American citizen. Flying over 40 hours each way because that’s the cheapest ticket we could find. Full post about that here.
#2: BABIES COMING SOON
I am now almost 33 weeks or 8 months pregnant. (Photos above we took ourselves last weekend). OUr little girl is healthy but leaves me exhausted at the end of the day as I've getting heavier by the minute. She was breech for a while there, but thankfully has turned. Pregnancy brain (which I think applies to adopting too) is also starting to show up more often. This is the first time in my life I have locked the keys in the car and run out of petrol on the side of the road! I'm normally very on top of the details. We are also many more steps into our adoption process, which we will release more information on soon. We are trying our best to savor this last bit and spend lots of time just the two of us before we are suddenly 4. Less than 2 months to go!
#3: TITUS PROJECT IN FULL SWING
Our annual Titus Project school is in full swing with 14 students all getting ready to be sent out as teachers for Africa
this weekend to Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, and Uganda. Its our most intensive ministry time of the year. God has been faithful this year to provide for these teachers to go teach His word free of charge to those most hungry in Africa. We have been teaching, planning each country's ministry, administrating the logistics of the school, running workshops for learning to make teaching aids and working with technology, and discipling our students.
(Down to the very practical basics of teaching our students how to put on a tie to look presentable as a teacher in Africa) Discipleship we find is much like parenting!
#4: WORLD CUP MANIA
Its been 5 weeks of schools out, soccer, and loud vuvuzela's as South Africa has just wrapped up hosting the World Cup. What a historic thing to live through in a developing nation! We had some fun going down to fan zones to watch even though we didn't have tickets to an actual game.
#5: RE-NETWORKING THE BASE
De Wet took on the monstrous task of re-networking the entire
YWAM base/campus where our students live and classes are held. It has been in dire need for a long time. Does he specialize in this? No. In fact, he had never done it before, but took on the challenge of research to do it as it would save lots of money rather than pay someone. On his immigration trip to the US he was able to bring back all the hardware he would need to do this. We had 2 volunteers come to help with the labor side of things. A huge project is now in its later stages, serving a more stable internet for over 150 staff & students!
That's a glimpse of our life and ministry right now. Full but fulfilling!
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