Well, a chapter has come to its end in our life and that is Bible College. Arron completed the two year associates programs at CCBCi. We are planning to leave shortly on our short term mission trip to Myanmar. Arron leaves the day after Christmas and I leave after New Years to join him. He will be there a total of three weeks and I will be there for a week and a half. While we are there we will be meeting with new friends and looking into our options of returning with the children this next year, for our long term mission. Also on this trip Arron will be teaching at the Bible College located at the orphanage. I will be working at the rescue center with the girls as well as doing VBS at some orphanages. 
We were told that our travel time from Indy to there is 36 hours! Yikes! Looking at the schedule we will be busy the entire time we are there. Al and Pat who we are going with also told us that once we get off the bus at the orphanage about 8-9 children will choose us as their 'main person' during the duration of our visit. So, apparently even though we will be interacting with all of the children these ones in particular we will have special bonds with. 
While we are there I will not be updating our website and I will update it after our return.
When we do return we are planning on getting busy mapping out our plans as far as visiting friends, family and churches on this side of the country from January through Spring. Once we have visited everyone we will start to head out West to continue to raise a support team for our mission. 
The above picture is of Arron Jr.'s robotic team praying with their coach before a tournament. I put this picture on here because this is another reason we will be waiting to leave. Arron's team has qualified to go to state and we are planning on them going to World's again this year. Please pray for God to allow us to be able to encourage our son and to be able to support him along side building up support for our ling term mission.     

Our next adventure...
In December I will leave for Myanmar on a mission trip and Vicky will join me in January for two weeks.  

We are not sure if God is wanting Myanmar to be a place where He wants us to serve long term, but He has been placing it on our hearts and seems to be leading us in that direction. Please pray for our family while we are waiting on the Lord to guide us. 

Myanmar is one of the world’s most isolated countries, around 90% of their population are Devout Buddhist, less than 1% are Christians. Being Buddhist they believe that any suffering they experience in this life is a result of what they have done in a past life. The people are intimidated by their government and the government holds that control over them. Most children end up working at a young age because their parents can’t afford to send them to school. They are people without hope and they are in need of Jesus and His saving grace. Here are some things our team will be doing in Myanmar on our mission trip: Working in orphanages, Bible teaching at the Bible College, VBS, crafts, songs, sports, games, construction, medical support and human trafficking support groups. 

Three semesters are complete and one more to go. On this practicum through the college I went to Ukraine and Vicky went with me for part of the time. We were able to serve the people and missionaries while we were there. We packed up and moved a church from one location to another. Played with kids at an orphanage. We then went to a mission conference where we were able to talk to missionaries and here how the Lord has used each of them in their different circumstances. After the conference Vicky headed back home and I left the rest of the group and went to serve at the church we had moved. I did their electrical work and helped with wiring to get their building ready for service on Sunday. After I spent a few days there I then flew to meet the rest of the team. We went to a refugee camp and helped serve the people there. 
I am back at home and ready for the Summer. I'm leading a home fellowship this summer once a week which will keep us around Indy. I look forward to the time of fellowship this summer and the break from school. I will be working during the summer as long as God continues to provide work. Also, as a family this summer we will be serving this summer in VBS and Good News Across America with our church. 

Since I will be on my last semester please pray for God's direction on where we will go after graduation. 

Fall semester came and went so fast before we knew it we were in the middle of the Winter with Spring around the corner. We figured it was time to update our site. We have been blessed with an amazing music instructor. He teaches Julianna, Jocelyn and Arron piano as well as teaching guitar to Arron. Arron has excelled in piano, it was a gift we had no idea he had! The girls are doing great and enjoying there lessons. 
We had an ugly sweater Christmas party at the house and it was wonderful to laugh and enjoy all of the families who came. We have become close with Dalton and Candice since they moved out, I guess distance make the heart grow fonder! They came around quite a bit during the holidays and it was such a blessing to see how God has worked with all of us to bring us close. 
It has also been a blessing to see the other relationships He has flourished while moving here. God is doing a great work in the families here and in this church and it is so awesome to be a part of it. Did I mention, Andrea? I think she is one of our biggest blessings here at the Bible college. She has a heart of gold and a love for serving. She is our 'chef' at the Bible College, my children love her. We have been plagued with the Indiana sicknesses, it seems we are sick about once a month which interrupts our schedule. My mom just came for another visit and she stayed over a week! The kids had an amazing time and she was able to participate in all of our activities. We loved having Grandma here. 

Arron is starting his second semester at CCBCi and we are starting up all of our school year activities, here is a glance into our life...

Arron's classes this semester: Daily Devotions; Life of David; Minor Prophets; Principles of Ministry; Practical Christian Ministry; Revelation; Gospel of Mark; Spiritual Foundation; and Old Testament Survey (listening and journaling the Old Testament vs by vs teaching by Chuck Smith). Arron will be going to a Festival of Life in La Crosse WI, in September to serve with the college. 
Arron has been blessed with the opportunity to be working and the Lord has been providing for us financially through this. His time is full with school, family, ministry opportunities and work. He is also trying to stay involved in the Men's ministry at the church. 

I will be attending the women's retreat in September which I am really looking forward to, I will also be attending a women's Bible study starting in September. I have been enjoying fellowshipping with women from the church and I have really been enjoying these new friendships. Homeschool started this week, and was SO MUCH FUN! 

As a family we served in the Festival of Life here in Indianapolis, which was such a blessing to be used by God. Arron evangelized around the park and prayed with people. Jocelyn helped sort clothes which were given away to those who needed them. I had the privilege of painting women and young ladies nails. The Lord has opened a door for us to serve in children's ministry this year every Wednesday night at AWANA's. All of our children will be in the program and  we will be leaders, Arron will lead a group of boys and I will be leading a group of girls. It has been a blessing to fellowship with this new church family on Sunday's as well as throughout the week. Our summer home fellowship just wrapped up as the Wednesday night services will be starting shortly. 

The children have been busy with friends all summer long and now everyone is getting back into their school schedule. Arron Jr. keeps us busy with soccer (thankfully it is right outside our back door), he just had his first Robotics meeting which we are very excited about (thank you to all who helped him financially to be able to do this), in the fall he starts football, and he is still doing guitar. Jocelyn has been making life long friends here which is such a blessing! She is still doing sewing with a group of girls during the week, she made a skirt this month and she is so proud of it. She is also doing well in her piano. She starts tumbling through the YMCA here next month with one of her friends. This is a awesome thing for her because she keeps flipping around the house, I'm looking forward to a 'safe' environment for cartwheels. Julianna and Jenavieve loves all of their little friends and they are full of energy. 
The Lord has opened our hearts to the people here and to the possibilities He has in store for us, whatever and wherever they might be. 

We headed to the East Coast to visit New York for a day. We were blessed by God in so many ways to make this trip happen. The Lord provided a hotel room suite which included breakfast and dinner at a amazing cost for us. He also provided a half price tour of New York for 9 hours. 
After seeing New York we headed to Washington DC and saw everything imaginable. We were able to see everything from the Constitution, Mt Vernon, Arlington and so much more.  

I have never experienced Thunder and Lighting storms like the mid-west before. The lightning stretches across the entire sky and the thunder seems to last forever. The sound of the thunder reminds me of the roar of the earthquakes in California. The grass grows everywhere here without sprinklers. It is so green and beautiful. 
We celebrated five birthday's out of the six of us over the last two months. 
The kids are enjoying their new friends and the finished up the AWANA's program at church. 
Since AWANA finished up so did our mid week study for a Summer time break. The church does home fellowship groups during the summer and we are in week two of those. We are really enjoying them, there are a lot of homeschooling families in our group and all of the kids friends are there too so they are loving it. 
Arron finished his first semester and will start back again in the Fall. He went to his first men's weekend in Michigan, they call it Men's Advance and he really enjoyed it. 
We have been blessed to be able to visit friends in Toledo and Columbus Ohio. I also, attend a huge home school conference in Cincinnati Ohio.
We are praying for guidance and direction over the next two years for the Lord to have His will on our lives and for Him to direct us where he wants our family to serve. For now we are enjoying life in Indiana and gleaning as much as we can from others while being here. 
The two families we are housed with have graduated and are waiting on God's calling, they will be here during the summer. Please pray for these families and God's hand on them. They have been a blessing to be with. Also, please pray for whoever God is planning on bringing into the house. God Bless    

Arron is in St. Kitts for two weeks on a mission trip with CCBCI. Check out the photo blog to see pictures. 

We have arrived in Indiana! We live in a house with two other families and are settled in. Our family weekly schedule and the outings we have done so far.... 

Sunday we have a choice of attending three different services and the one we choose to attend is the third service. At the third service, our two older children go to praise and worship first and then to their classes. There are also a lot of families at this service. Jocelyn has been invited to attend a girls bible study a couple times a month on Sundays as well.

Arron goes to school Monday through Friday. We get ready and eat at the cafeteria at 7am Monday through Friday and we also go there for lunches between 12-1 depending on that days' schedule. Dinners during the week are sack lunches that we enjoy at home. The woman who makes all of the meals has truly been blessed with the gift of cooking. I can see what a blessing she is to this campus by the love that comes through her meals. Also, on some Monday's Jocelyn has joined a homeschooling group of girls that get together and sew. The children do their homeschooling Monday through Thursday in our homeschool area. Arron Jr's room was large enough to divide it into two. We use half for homeschool during the day and Arron does his homework at my desk at night. It is cute the kids all have their little desks, Arron and I have a large desk. The other half of the room is for Arron Jr and all of his stuff.

Wednesday nights we eat at the church and fellowship with others before the kids head to AWANA's and we head to midweek service. This is also another blessing to have all of this on one night with dinner. It is a great way to bring families together and to eliminate the stress of trying to cook beforehand. The college students switch off on setting up for Wednesday night and on helping with Wednesday night dinner. 

Thursday night I attend a Women's discipleship class with the college girls and the other wives of the college students. With all of these young women it has catapulted me into the 'older' woman category which I am learning to appreciate. It has been a joy getting to know these young ladies.

Friday mornings after the college group do their devotions they get dispersed to different jobs and ministry opportunities because Friday is Practical Christian Ministry class. While Arron is doing his service project, I am attending a women's bible study. It works out perfect because it offers childcare and it is during the day so we can all be with our families in the evening. My favorite part of this study are the women which the majority of them are fellow homeschooling moms! 

Our free time has been FULL and it has been wonderful. I will start by letting you know what we have been up to since we arrived in Indiana. As soon as we arrived we started unpacking. We met the two families we are now living with. One couple are newlyweds and the other are closer to our age (kind of, shhh don't tell them) and they have two small children that are close in age to our youngest two. 
We met up with my friend, Angela who was my maid of honor in my wedding and a dear friend. We had lost contact over the years and have now reconnected. It was great to visit with her and her family .
Our first Sunday here there was a large storm moving into town so Sunday service was very small. Sunday after church our power went out. The snow looked so beautiful, the snowflakes were huge and fluffy. When you have lemons you make lemonade, well, we had snow so we made a snowman. A huge snowman! Our housemates and us bundled up and started creating him, it was a great way of getting the kids to interact with them. Once we were told that we wouldn't have power for a while and the temps. were going to reach negative degrees we decided staying at the house was not an option. Many opened their homes to our families and others. We ended going to the pastors house with our housemates and some other families joined us there. It was a blessing to be able to fellowship so quickly and to meet others. That night Arron was given a opportunity to serve with his fellow college mates and the pastor. There was a shelter opened down the street to help those who also had no power and no place to go. We spent the night at their home, ate with them the next day and our power returned. We went home and finished unpacking. 
We have all had time to visit with others and have enjoyed creating new friendships. Arron surprised us and took us out to an amazing place. It is called IncrediPlex and it lives up to its name, it is Incredible! It is a huge building with soccer fields, football fields, basketball courts, volleyball courts, bowling, laser tag, a gym, bounce houses, large trampolines with budgies attached and a huge obstacle course. The kids did the obstacle course, bounce houses and the trampolines. It was great, I sat in amazement at the building and of all of the families smiling and enjoying each other, it was beautiful. 
Last Friday night we had a open house night where we had snacks, fellowship, praise and worship. It was great to be able to get to know the college students better. Watching them all play guitar and play with the drum box (that isn't what it is called but you get the idea) was really a blessing. I hope they were able to know us a little better then the 'old' people in town! 
The midwest while welcoming us with open arms and hospitality have also shared their germs. The kids have caught a bug and have been down. Thankfully, we are now on number three so we only have one more child to get sick. Jenavieve was the first to get sick, then Julianna and now Jocelyn. It last about 4-5 days so it looks as though we will be in the clear for the Super Bowl. Which I am excited about because our housemates and us are opening the house up to the college kids to watch the game.  
  
Arron is busy with school and homework. He is taking 10 classes which are: Devos, Biblical Missions, Acts, Philippians / Colossians, Men's Discipleship, Biblical Counseling, Numbers, Community Worship, Old & New Testament Survey and Practical Christian Ministry.
He is reading these books; The Bible, They Found the Secret by V. Raymond Edman, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret by George Verwer, The Autobiography of George Muller, Basics For Believers by D.A. Carson, and Verse by Verse Commentary Acts by David Guzik. Arron is looking forward to attending mens saturday morning breakfast. Also, he is looking forward to going on his first missions trip to St. Kits for two weeks. On his spare time he is working doing odd jobs. Everyday he is amazed with the blessing to be here. He is also amazed to be surrounded by so many strong Christian men. 

I have been getting acquainted with women here on campus and at the church. I am taking a once a week class on women's discipleship and a women's bible study once a week with lots of other homeschool moms. These are the two books which I am reading: Becoming A Titus 2 Woman by Martha Peace and Abide In Christ by Andrew Murray. I have also been invited to homes to get acquainted and other outings. I have reconnected with an old friend which has also been a blessing to be able to spend time with her and her family. 

The children have been having a great time and have already met some friends. Arron has had a couple of sleepovers and playdates, he had such a great time I was worried he wouldn't want to come home. Jocelyn attend a all girls birthday party which she loved, been invited to join a sewing group with other homeschoolers and a girls bible study. She also has had some playdates and is really enjoying her new friends. The little girls are enjoying playing with their friends at church and at the get togethers we have had. 

God has blessed us with two families to grow in the Lord with and to be able to fellowship with. I have also found all of us being under one roof together really brings to reality the picture of Christ's family as Christians. My children have two other families they live with that care for them, help and look out for them and we are able to share that same love to them. 

More to come as we continue our adventure...

2 Peter 3:18
"but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen."

We are in!!! The Bible College just called and it is a go. We need to be there January 5th to get acquainted. We are all looking forward to this move and change. The kids are excited about having and meeting new friends. Arron is looking forward to the college. Vicky is excited about the home school group and so many more things!! Please continue to keep us in your prayers as we pack up and go on our journey. God Bless