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The 4 C’s Nov 7 Update

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Family News

Cody began this school year at a local Christian School. He quickly adjusted to the social aspects with no language barrier at all. He loved it! After 9 weeks or so it became evident that Cody was not learning as he should. This was according to his own admission as well as our observations. As the principle so aptly put it, “The atmosphere of the school is not condusive for Cody to learn.” Because of this Cheryl has started homeschooling him again, along with Cheyenne. He is happy and we are glad to have him home again. We are thankful that his 8th grade books never sold. God knew we would still need them. He sure looked handsome in his uniform though!

Ministry at MTC- Missionary Training Center

This week marks 16 years of ministry for us here in Indonesia. November 3rd, 1993 we arrived in the capital city, Jakarta. After a few days of adjusting and meeting various people we flew to our next destination. On November 7th we landed at our present location, which has become our “home” away from home for all these years.

We are full swing into the 2nd 9 week session of the “Autumn” semester. This time I (Craig) am teaching the Gospel of John to our 1st year students, James to our 3rd semester students and NT Church Principles to our 1st year Missions class. This is a total of 42 students, each at different levels of the training.

Each Wednesday Cheryl and I lead a small group of students in our discipleship class. On Fridays one of our staff guys is teaching on the family. All 42 students and 21 staff attend. On Wednesdays we go over the same lesson to help cement it. This give folks more opportunities for input and feedback.

Sports

Sports are a regular part of our week. Most times its an “internal’ thing with staff and students playing together. From time to time the teams don uniforms and play against outside teams in “friendly matches”. The ladies play soccer on Wednesdays and volleyball on Monday and Friday. This gives everyone some stress relief and just some good ole sweat and excersise.

Thank you for partnering with us in expanding the reach of the gospel. We are a team working together.

Craig for…

The 4 C’s

Craig, Cheryl, Cody & Cheyenne

Cheryl and the Ladies dressed to play!

Cheryl and the Ladies dressed to play!

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Mid September Update

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Students getting a brush up course in Indonesian

Students getting a brush up course in Indonesian

Dear Ministry Partners,

Mid September is here and we only have two weeks left in the first half of the semester. In our last several updates we were able to share our student body with you. We are excited what the Lord is going to do in and through them over the next several years. Recently in our 1 John class we looked at what it means to “walk even has He walked” (1 John 2:6). The “He” is speaking of Jesus. What a challenge, to walk even as Jesus walked. As the Lord reminds you, we ask that you continue to pray for them and us.

We also asked you to pray for our financial needs concerning the visas needed for Cheryl and the kids. Well, God is answering and we had a gift of $750 come in August specifically for this need. Thank you for praying and don’t stop now. We know the Lord will answer as we all pray together.

We were also blessed with several days of house sitting again during our school break. This house is equipped with an in ground pool and great scenery. Tomorrow it will be time to come back to reality. Starting at 1 PM I (Craig) will be involved in 3 days of area leadership meetings. Pray as our team discuss church planting strategy for our area as well as a few administrative things.

Cheryl, Cody and Cheyenne will all be back to school after this weeks break. Pray for Cody as he deals with the challenges of being in an Indonesian Jr. High School. Pray for Cheryl as she continues to teach Cheyenne 3rd grade.

We will send out another update after our area leadership meetings are finished.

Craig for the ….

4 C’s
Craig, Cheryl, Cody and Cheyenne.

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NEWS FLASH

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Dear Ministry Partners,

NEWS FLASH and thank you for praying. We asked you a few post ago to be praying for the Lord’s provision for Cheryl and the kids’ visas. We mentioned that the need would be about $7500.  The Lord has answered your prayers. The answer has come in a different form than what we were thinking. He did not provide the funds for this need. You ask “Then how can it be answered”? Well, things in governments often change. In order to get all immigrations offices on the same page, they have decided to enforce the regulations on the books. Cheryl and kids will not be eligible for this 5 year visa until next year. So we have to do one more 1 year visa for them before they are eligible. Most likely we will not apply for a 5 year visa for them until mine runs out and needs to be renewed. That will be 2013. We hope to be able to save up for that over the next 4 years. Again thank you for praying. Now we just need the regular $1500 for this years visa. Pray that the Lord will provide for this as well.

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New Look For our NTM Website

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Recently NTM has upgraded our NTM website. Our personal website is now a blog site. We are new at this Blogging stuff so  please be patient with us. We do hope it will keep us better connected to you and you to us. This first entry is just short and sweet with a new picture of  us.

Here we are

Here we are. God is Great, Cheyenne turned 8. Teenager in the house (Cody turned 13)

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