One Year Anniversary

One year ago, we vowed to love, honor and respect each other FOREVER! Although many things have changed within just one short year, we realize that commitment to our Lord and each other is the thing that will last!

May 24, 2008-May 24, 2009:
-Sarah moved from the USA with David to Canada June 10
-We began working with CEF Ontario full-time
-Spent our first three months of married teaching children in a different city nearly every week
-Moved to Port Sydney, Ontario in September
-Found a great church- Harvest Bible Chapel Muskoka (in Port Sydney!!) in September
-Submitted the paperwork for Sarah to become a "Permanent Resident" and tried to wait patiently for the verdict (which means no border crossing)
-Sarah unknowingly began to "talk like a Canadian"
-We both have been stretched in our relationship with the Lord in new ways and the more we get to know Him the more we realize we want to know more!

Minden Good News Club

It has been exciting to see the children continue to come out to the Good News Club each week in Minden, with new children coming every few weeks! We only have 3 weeks left for this school year. Please pray for these kids! There are quite a few discipline issues that we need wisdom in working with the kids on. We are focusing on a series on "Living God's Way". Something we each need His strength to do!

David's sister, Melissa returned last week from working with CEF in Guyana for seven months. It was great to have her come and share as David interviewed her. The flag of Guyana was even hung in the front for the special day. The kid's couldn't believe that she'd found a huge frog in her toliet one morning!

From a GNC Girl

Last week David taught the Bible lesson about Naboth's Vineyard and being content with the things we have. He gave a challenge to the kids at both of our Good News Clubs to give something to someone that week, either something they bought with their own money or already had. (He also told the kids if he didn't do it, they would get to "stone" him with soft balls...which they didn't get to do, since he bought a Gerber plant for me!)

Nearly all the kids came back having put the lesson into action! One of the little girls from each club gave David and I something. The picture shows the card, Birthday banner and old pencil that Sydney gave us. =]

The First Picnic of 2009!

After church we decided to walk down to Mary Lake and bring our lunch for a lovely change of scenery! It's SOOOOOOOOOOOO exciting to be able to get out of "the dungeon" (our apartment) now! It's fun to run in to people we know as we are outside now...it's feeling like home! (We tried to walk to church this morning but some friends stopped and picked us up! We did successfully walk all the way home though, all 10-15 minutes. =])