Happy New Year!
Hi Friends,
We hope you had a great Christmas & New Year! We’re back in Florida after being up in PA for about two weeks. Although we had a great time up north with family, we are very glad to be back. One phrase that has been repeated lately in our family is “Good to see you come, good to see you go!” We love our family, but there is a lot of work to be done with GSI, so we were glad to get back. We have a pretty busy schedule this year with trips planned in the US and overseas, a “pre-field orientation conference” that Micah is contributing to, and an important GSI fundraising dinner. And that’s just in the first couple months! 🙂
We’ve also plugged into a local church, with Micah taking the reigns of the music ministry & Katrina and the kids getting involved in AWANA. Our church is passionate about reaching unreached people groups in restricted countries, so we’re excited to get involved there and be a part of their vision.
We’d ask for your prayers as we get involved with all these things. We are thanking the Lord for good health & and the comfortable house that we’re renting. We wish you a happy & productive 2015! Thanks for checking out our blog! Here are a couple pictures of the latest happenings…
Our Florida Winter
It’s never to early to start learning guitar!
A regular sight here in Florida – the orange truck!
Keith likes to draw this way.
Our office finally got a sign!
We had dinner with a good friend that was with us in Russia, it was so good to catch up with her!
Micah is glad to be leading worship again!
Christmas in Pennsylvania
It’s been so nice to be with family for Christmas and now soon for New Years. The kids have loved spending time with their cousins. It is really interesting to see their personalities come out with so many kids around. Violet is quite the little miss bossy girl and Keira was just following the other three girls around, wanting to be included in everything! And well, Keith is just his normal active self.
Mom and Dad’s old farmhouse is definitely crowded with this many kids running around.
Grandma and Grandpa with their nine grandkids
Grammy and her grandkids
This time of the year it seems everyone catches a cold or flu or something. Well, Keith started up with something over the weekend. He was wheezing really bad and coughing. And when he coughed the poor thing would cry and get all worked up and he really seemed to have a hard time to catch his breath. He was getting worse and not better, so my mom and I ended up taking him into the ER Monday night around 8 pm. We had to wait about 3 hours to finally go back and see the doctor. It was just a little busy there that night. They ended up giving him breathing treatments 3 different times. They didn’t like the way his chest sounded so they also took some chest x-rays to make sure he didn’t have any kind of bacterial pneumonia. Thankfully, they didn’t find anything. They said he had parainfluenza and rhinovirus with some croup as well. They finally gave him a steroid shot in the leg to help loosen everything up and clear it out. We went home around 2 am. Poor guy only had a little nap earlier in the waiting room, so he conked out right away on the drive home.
Thankfully today he already sounds better, not much wheezing at all. Still some coughing and crying. But I’m thankful we did go to make sure it wasn’t something more serious and he was able to get some kind of treatment that we couldn’t give him at home. The nurses and doctors all did a great job! Thankful for the ER staff at Geisinger in Danville.
A way to help
Hi Friends,
As you’ve probably noticed over the years, we don’t often post about the ministry we are involved in. It’s mostly about our kids & life in Russia (now Florida). But, today we want to share with you about an important project that Micah has been working on.
One of the new ministry jobs Micah has is becoming familiar with all the business & community development projects that our workers are involved in in Asia. There is a great project going on now in North Asia with homeless, deaf street kids. The workers there are providing them with basic needs like food, clothing & education, as well as sharing the gospel and loving them like Christ would. Some great stuff is going on, but they are in desperate need of funds to keep it going. Micah has written a crowdfunding campaign through indiegogo. Go check it out and please donate if you are able!
https://www.indiegogo.com/project/children-at-risk/embedded/9057493
Thanks for checking out our blog!
Six Sandowiches 
