Our First Post

Welcome to our blog!  We will be using this to keep you up to date what we are doing as we are abroad.  


As you know, Jake left on Wednesday, June 27th to do his Discipleship Training School (DTS) with Youth With a Mission (YWAM).  He has been getting acclimated down there and getting settled in.  Within a couple hours of his arrival, he was doing the Jake thing...working on a car.  He will be doing that for a couple of hours every day during the week because as part of the school he has been assigned to assist with transportation maintenance.  :-)


There are a total of 8 students in his DTS class. There is a 40 year old Canadian man, a 38 year old Swiss woman, Jake, a 23 year old Mexican man, a 21 year old San Diegan man, 2 18 year old women from Colorado and an 18 year old woman from Los Angeles.  Quite a wide variety of ages for a school.


Their schedules are packed with worship, studying, working.  This weekend they are prepping for entertaining kids for Vacation Bible School.  Jake will be playing King Nebuchadnezzar and Lazarus in a couple of skits.  Yes, Jake acting.  What I wouldn't give to see that!  :)  


Next week the class will start their training with "Character and Nature of God".   There is sure to be a lot of growth and revelation for the students.  
Please keep us in your prayers.  It has been very hard on both of us being apart.  We have been able to Skype a few times, which has been incredibly helpful, but it is a challenge not knowing when he will be able to make the time to call.  


Thank you to all for your support!  We are so thankful for the love, the prayers, the encouragement and the financial contributions you have made to help make this possible for us.  We are so blessed.