Hello Friends!
We’ve been reflecting a lot on our time in the Philippines since we celebrated our 3 year anniversary a couple months ago and felt like it would be a good time to take a break from regular ministry updates to update you on the family and let you know some of how you can be praying. We are celebrating Kaelyn’s birthday this week as she turns 6 – and it’s hard to believe that she was 2 1/2 when we first arrived. She has lived more of her life in the Philippines than the United States! That explains also why her Tagalog is the best of all of us 🙂 Your partnership with us is not just through us, but in us and in our family as we minister here together. Here’s the latest!
Kaelyn
Kaelyn is a couple months into Kindergarten and loves it. She is extremely focused and responsible, yet has a very flamboyant performer side to her. In a recent family conversation she was voted, “Family Member Most Likely To Get a Tattoo.” (Let’s hope we don’t go down that road anytime soon!) She is extremely caring and as we may have shared, her teachers have shared that at school she is often reaching out to the kids that are left out, who have special needs, or don’t know what to do. She is high in empathy as well as general toughness – she loves wrestling Colin 🙂 As you can see in the tricycle picture (from a school outing) that she is wearing glasses – she just had to get glasses so you can pray that adjusts well to them.
Morgan
Morgan has had the biggest transition this year as she has entered middle school. Thank you for your prayers! It has had its ups and downs. She has loved her classes, her teachers, and the learning and she’s being pushed to up her game as a student. We’ve had some challenges in finding an appropriate arrangement for her with adaptive P.E. with some people that it took a long time to help understand the challenges of cerebral palsy in the physical education department. You can keep praying because it’s not something the school is equipped to deal with at this point well.
Socially it has been a challenge, but God is providing and Morgan is growing and getting out of her comfort zone more and more. Middle school is hard for everyone, but with some of her limitations that keep her from doing the activities everyone else is doing and the limitations that come with us living farther away than many of the other girls it has been a journey.
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You can pray for her that God would continue to build her emotional and social connection with friends that are good for her. You can also pray for her spiritual development. She is old enough to start engaging Scripture more deeply and we’re having more and more conversations about perfectionism, identity in Christ, pain, and grace. We’re proud of her, but it’s not an easy road for her.
Christine
It has been a harder year for me. The family that we carpooled with moved closer to the school so the year has been more demanding in terms of schedule and driving, but also more isolating in a lot of ways. But God has provided a great Bible Study with some other missionary moms, which has provided a lot of spiritual encouragement and relational support. It helps to know I’m not alone!
I’ve been a part of teaching two classes this term at IGSL for the Partners in Ministry program – “God and Conflict” and “Ministry Communication.” I am thankful I get to teach and serve in PIM. When our students share their stories, and talk about their ministries and I am always reminded of what a gift it is to serve at IGSL and why we sacrifice to be here. You can pray for me that I would continue to learn as an international missionary. This was never part of my plan and I am being stretched in many ways!
Thanks for praying for our family and investing in God’s work in and through all 5 of us!
Christine for the family