Goodbye with Thanks!

Isaiah and Vivian did profession of faith at Fuller Ave. CRC in May.

As we look back on the  past nine months, we give thanks to God for many blessings.  We are thankful for Grand Rapids Christian Elementary School whose educational specialists spent countless hours working with our twins to catch them up in reading.  We benefited greatly from many doctors catching us up on thirty months-worth of appointments that we missed in Haiti.  We give thanks for the study leave in which Sharon served as a chaplain, who encouraged and prayed with hurting people.  Zach nearly finished the second revision of his Ph.D. dissertation and hopes to graduate in the spring of 2016.  It was invigorating to grow personally, spiritually, and professionally.  We have gotten a new perspective on our work in Haiti also.  We were appointed as missionaries to Haiti by CRWM in July 2005.  In the last ten years, we’ve internalized a lot of stress from our life and work in Haiti.   God has used these months to help us surrender our hopes and dreams for our ministry to the Holy Spirit’s leading.  In our travels from western Minnesota to Ontario, we have been encouraged by the prayers, sacrificial support, and encouragement we have received from you, our partners in ministry.  In a time when so many missionaries must spend unforeseen months in the USA pleading for funding, we are planning to return to Haiti on the date chosen years ago!