We've Arrived - Thank You, LORD!

Our trip south to TN was completed on Wednesday night about 10:30 (finally to a place where we could post an update).

The trailer light problem resolved, with some incredible blessing and time investment by a friend of the NTMC. We received a needed component and I was guided in the installation of everything - which is working without flaw.

We are now at our friends' home while they are out of the country ministering with family in Brazil. We thank the Lord for your prayer for our trip. We thank God for your friendship and ministry to us - everyone of you.

Thank you for your prayers with us as we work out the schedule for meeting with our leadership here in TN.

This coming week we have the joy of participating in the Vacation Bible School program. RJ will get to be a part of the drama, and the rest of will join in wherever we can best be of service. We are excited that many kids will have an opportunity to hear about what Jesus has done for tehm over the next week and that some of them will place their faith in Him, too. Please join with us as we pray for the workers and administrators involved in this VBS ministry. Pray each child will know they have been around God's people because of the love of Christ shown to them.

in christ,
Roland (and the family)
2 Cor 3:4-6

Departure Delayed

We are not on our way just yet, but we should be leaving Canada by this afternoon. We had hoped to be on the road Monday, however that did not happen.

Packing the last of our belongings has taken a little longer than estimated for one thing. Lighting problems with our homemade cargo trailer has been the biggest slow down.

We thank the Lord for the many who have graciously helped us get this far along the way.

This should be our last post until we arrive in Michigan. Please pray with us that our trailer lighting problem to be resolved, that the remaining packing would go quickly, and that our now delayed arrival in Knoxville would not see any further delays. We thank the Lord that you will be praying alongside us.

in Christ,
Roland (and the family)
2 Cor 3:5-6

Our Spring Photo

This is one of the pictures we took today, for our Graduation Program, less than 1 hour before our two sons competed in some Field Day related events.

Field Day, an intramural competition of track and field events, is structured a little different this year. Mr P, the Academy principal, has the running events spread out over several days and some far in advance of the actual Field Day. Today Elijah, some of his classmates, along with RJ and some of his classmates all had the chance to run the 1500 meters.

There are records for Field Day events which can be broken. These records are divided into age bracket for each event. Elijah ran against three other boys, while RJ ran against only one other. Both of the boys achieved their personal best times in today's event. It was an exciting time rooting them on while they were running. RJ came from behind and beat the older guy he was racing with by a VERY close 00:00:25 - to everyone's cheers. Neither of these guys broke the record for their bracket. Elijah came from 3rd place into 2nd on the 3rd lap and passed the leader of the race around 150 meters from the finish. The race to the line was very close after that but Elijah finished 00:02:18 ahead of his friend. The other two boys in their group finished close on their heels all of them under record time! What an exciting time all the timekeepers and spectators had cheering on the racers to the finish. After finishing, the racers temporarily collapsed, but each was helped up by congratulating onlookers.

I thank the Lord and am so glad that we had the afternoon off from campus ministry today. This break from normal routine afforded me an opportunity to celebrate with my sons some precious memories we'll share for a lifetime.

Thank you for your prayers for us. We are so grateful the Lord has us on your minds. We have so much to be thankful for, daily and right now I just want you to know how much your prayers mean to us. We could never be at this point in our lives without your prayer support and encouragement. We thank God every time we remember you, too.

This evening we will have our last, BIG, school-wide, picnic extravaganza. Everyone will be out by the big ponds sharing a meal, maybe some volleyball, and stories of what God is doing in our lives as we draw to a close on this chapter of our journey. We'll try to have some pictures to follow, later.