Monday, November 19, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Fun in October
Hey everyone
We have been going through a bout of illnesses here for the past two weeks and haven’t been able to send out an update about our activities in October.
October proved to be a buys month for us. The first weekend we drove south a few hours to visit our good friends from language school and encountered a terrible drive down as they are tearing up the road and have what they call “diversions” or now you will drive on an even worse part of the road so that we can fix all the potholes. This road has been torn up for almost a year now. At least we don’t have to drive that every day to work. We had a fun getaway to the country and seeing our longtime friends.
The third weekend in October we had our costume party with the high school. Our theme was Welcome to Hollywood and everyone came dressed as their favorite movie character. We had kids dressed as classics like Zorro, Susan from Lion/Witch/ Wardrobe, Men in black, and the girls from High school musical. We played a classic dice game called Bunko for about an hour and a half and surprisingly they all went wild having fun playing. You never know with high schoolers what they will like. We gave out prizes for costumes and for winning the game. All in all it was a fun night. Kayla dressed up like a princess and Emma went as a baby jaguar. The girls love being a part of our “parties” and having big friends come to play with them. It is truly a joy to see them both being embraced by the high schoolers and included in our activities. The high schoolers go out of their way to try to include the girls.
The last weekend in October we had a donut making party and not just for the fun of it. The following day we sell our donuts at our bizarre (large garage sale) at our school. The money we are earning will go towards the kid’s big trip as seniors. We are hoping to save enough to travel down to the coast for an adventure trip. We didn’t quite make enough money selling just donuts as we had hoped so maybe next bizarre we will add coffee drinks. If anyone has any great fundraising ideas they want to share let us know.
Several of you have asked about the construction going on behind our house and it does continue. It is interesting to watch construction here and a bit scary at the same time. Everything is done by hand with very little machinery. So far they have taken down the house and all the trees by hand and have started mapping out where the apartments are going to be. It continues to look like they will enclose our whole backyard. We are hoping that they will be far enough away from our wall that people’s windows won’t be looking down into our yard. Although on a positive note this will probably not increase the value of our house so maybe our rent will stay the same next year when we renew our contract. Or we could pray the owner runs out of money J That happens a lot here and apartments just sit on lots left undone for years.
Life continues on with Kayla and proves to be intense most of the time. This year will just be an intense one. We have found a nice therapist who is European and works well with Kayla, we see her once a week. She has also recommended speech therapy once a week as well for Kayla’s expressive problems. We still can’t ask Kayla hardly any questions or talk in a conversation. We continue to pray the Lord’s healing for her and this month will you specifically pray for her relationship with Eric. This disorder leaves kids very emotional and attached to one parent usually (mom). Many dads feel left out and frustrated throughout the difficult times as these kids prefer one parent over the other. The other night Eric tried to take Kayla downstairs to play so I could rest and she didn’t want to go. She then continued to cry and become inconsolable for at least an hour and a half. Finally after being sent to her room to calm down she fell asleep at dinner time. It is situations like this that leave us tired and frustrated. We continue to pray for wisdom especially in disciplining her as sometimes it’s hard to know where the disorder comes into play and when discipline needs to be applied. So please pray for Eric this month that the Lord would give him understanding, wisdom, and a special love for Kayla.
We continue to thank you for your gifts of support and prayers they are appreciated and continue to provide a means for us to do our work here. Thank you for thinking of us faithfully
Kara for the Gibsons
We have been going through a bout of illnesses here for the past two weeks and haven’t been able to send out an update about our activities in October.
October proved to be a buys month for us. The first weekend we drove south a few hours to visit our good friends from language school and encountered a terrible drive down as they are tearing up the road and have what they call “diversions” or now you will drive on an even worse part of the road so that we can fix all the potholes. This road has been torn up for almost a year now. At least we don’t have to drive that every day to work. We had a fun getaway to the country and seeing our longtime friends.
The third weekend in October we had our costume party with the high school. Our theme was Welcome to Hollywood and everyone came dressed as their favorite movie character. We had kids dressed as classics like Zorro, Susan from Lion/Witch/ Wardrobe, Men in black, and the girls from High school musical. We played a classic dice game called Bunko for about an hour and a half and surprisingly they all went wild having fun playing. You never know with high schoolers what they will like. We gave out prizes for costumes and for winning the game. All in all it was a fun night. Kayla dressed up like a princess and Emma went as a baby jaguar. The girls love being a part of our “parties” and having big friends come to play with them. It is truly a joy to see them both being embraced by the high schoolers and included in our activities. The high schoolers go out of their way to try to include the girls.
The last weekend in October we had a donut making party and not just for the fun of it. The following day we sell our donuts at our bizarre (large garage sale) at our school. The money we are earning will go towards the kid’s big trip as seniors. We are hoping to save enough to travel down to the coast for an adventure trip. We didn’t quite make enough money selling just donuts as we had hoped so maybe next bizarre we will add coffee drinks. If anyone has any great fundraising ideas they want to share let us know.
Several of you have asked about the construction going on behind our house and it does continue. It is interesting to watch construction here and a bit scary at the same time. Everything is done by hand with very little machinery. So far they have taken down the house and all the trees by hand and have started mapping out where the apartments are going to be. It continues to look like they will enclose our whole backyard. We are hoping that they will be far enough away from our wall that people’s windows won’t be looking down into our yard. Although on a positive note this will probably not increase the value of our house so maybe our rent will stay the same next year when we renew our contract. Or we could pray the owner runs out of money J That happens a lot here and apartments just sit on lots left undone for years.
Life continues on with Kayla and proves to be intense most of the time. This year will just be an intense one. We have found a nice therapist who is European and works well with Kayla, we see her once a week. She has also recommended speech therapy once a week as well for Kayla’s expressive problems. We still can’t ask Kayla hardly any questions or talk in a conversation. We continue to pray the Lord’s healing for her and this month will you specifically pray for her relationship with Eric. This disorder leaves kids very emotional and attached to one parent usually (mom). Many dads feel left out and frustrated throughout the difficult times as these kids prefer one parent over the other. The other night Eric tried to take Kayla downstairs to play so I could rest and she didn’t want to go. She then continued to cry and become inconsolable for at least an hour and a half. Finally after being sent to her room to calm down she fell asleep at dinner time. It is situations like this that leave us tired and frustrated. We continue to pray for wisdom especially in disciplining her as sometimes it’s hard to know where the disorder comes into play and when discipline needs to be applied. So please pray for Eric this month that the Lord would give him understanding, wisdom, and a special love for Kayla.
We continue to thank you for your gifts of support and prayers they are appreciated and continue to provide a means for us to do our work here. Thank you for thinking of us faithfully
Kara for the Gibsons
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Activities from September
Hey everyone
It’s been a busy month as we have finished painting and hanging our stuff on the walls at our new place. We truly have enjoyed our new house and especially being able to have fires at night in our fireplace. The girls love roasting marshmellows. This past month we were excited to have our first parties in our new home. We had Kayla’s preschool class for breakfast and a fun time of games. I didn’t know all 18 kids and their families would show up but we had a fun time of eating and playing a few games with the kids. It was great to have a home large enough for everyone with plenty of room left over. Our second party was the 10th grade from school. We had an 80s themed party with all those fun outfits from the pastel era. We had lots of junk food and watched Back to the Future. Eric set up a big sheet on the patio and we were able to project the movie onto it from the movie projector. We opened the patio doors and had an outdoor big screen movie night. Will you pray for us and our new house the vacant lot behind our house was just bought and they have proceeded to cut down all the nice trees and are supposedly going to put in apartments. So the past few weeks our nice and quiet house has been surrounded with chainsaw sounds and the sounds of hammers breaking down the stone house. I am fearful that these new apartments are going to be looking down into our backyard and that we won’t have any privacy. One of the challenges of living here is that we are watched constantly. Wherever we go especially when out with the kids Kenyans just love to watch us and so having some privacy especially at home is essential. I’m not sure what plans God has for that house and how that will affect us but I can only hope that we didn’t go to all this work of moving just to have to move again in a year because of noise and privacy. So please pray for our attitudes and that we will trust God for this new place he has us in.
The next few weeks we are going to have a high school harvest party with games and everyone is going to come dressed as one of their favorite movie characters. The following week we are having the 10th grade over for our annual donut making party followed the next day by selling the donuts as a fundraiser for our senior trip at the semiannual garage sale. It should be a fun few weeks we are just excited to be able to provide a place for the fun to happen.
Emma had her second birthday and we celebrated with a Winnie the Pooh cake and just had a little family party. She is an independent spirit who loves to play outside she can play with even a basket of socks for 20 minutes. She easily amuses herself all the time. She is my little sweet heart and loves to go shopping with mommy and to help put the groceries in the basket.
We continue to see growth in Kayla in many areas and have been fortunate to have a therapist that has been coming to our house to do therapy with Kayla this past month. Each day as well I do about a half hour of purposeful play with her incorporating lots of activities that will help strengthen her physically and mentally. It is quite the challenge for me to incorporate the activities for her each day without letting her know it,s for therapy. This year will continue to be a challenge for us with Kayla as she continues to struggle with her responses to things she doesn’t like and when she gets overwhelmed. We deal with constant screaming outbursts and intense crying periods. It seems to be a combination of her age, personality, and the disorder. Please continue to pray specifically for these areas for Kayla as she continues to demand a lot of our family time. The Lord continues to teach me so much through this and we have been thankful to connect with several families who share similar family experiences with kids like Kayla. It is intense having kids with this disorder but I am thankful for her sweet spirit as well. Daily I pray for the Lord to continue His healing process in her.
Thank you for your continued support of our ministry we are truly blessed by you all and continue to see God’s work being done here.
Kara for the Gibsons
It’s been a busy month as we have finished painting and hanging our stuff on the walls at our new place. We truly have enjoyed our new house and especially being able to have fires at night in our fireplace. The girls love roasting marshmellows. This past month we were excited to have our first parties in our new home. We had Kayla’s preschool class for breakfast and a fun time of games. I didn’t know all 18 kids and their families would show up but we had a fun time of eating and playing a few games with the kids. It was great to have a home large enough for everyone with plenty of room left over. Our second party was the 10th grade from school. We had an 80s themed party with all those fun outfits from the pastel era. We had lots of junk food and watched Back to the Future. Eric set up a big sheet on the patio and we were able to project the movie onto it from the movie projector. We opened the patio doors and had an outdoor big screen movie night. Will you pray for us and our new house the vacant lot behind our house was just bought and they have proceeded to cut down all the nice trees and are supposedly going to put in apartments. So the past few weeks our nice and quiet house has been surrounded with chainsaw sounds and the sounds of hammers breaking down the stone house. I am fearful that these new apartments are going to be looking down into our backyard and that we won’t have any privacy. One of the challenges of living here is that we are watched constantly. Wherever we go especially when out with the kids Kenyans just love to watch us and so having some privacy especially at home is essential. I’m not sure what plans God has for that house and how that will affect us but I can only hope that we didn’t go to all this work of moving just to have to move again in a year because of noise and privacy. So please pray for our attitudes and that we will trust God for this new place he has us in.
The next few weeks we are going to have a high school harvest party with games and everyone is going to come dressed as one of their favorite movie characters. The following week we are having the 10th grade over for our annual donut making party followed the next day by selling the donuts as a fundraiser for our senior trip at the semiannual garage sale. It should be a fun few weeks we are just excited to be able to provide a place for the fun to happen.
Emma had her second birthday and we celebrated with a Winnie the Pooh cake and just had a little family party. She is an independent spirit who loves to play outside she can play with even a basket of socks for 20 minutes. She easily amuses herself all the time. She is my little sweet heart and loves to go shopping with mommy and to help put the groceries in the basket.
We continue to see growth in Kayla in many areas and have been fortunate to have a therapist that has been coming to our house to do therapy with Kayla this past month. Each day as well I do about a half hour of purposeful play with her incorporating lots of activities that will help strengthen her physically and mentally. It is quite the challenge for me to incorporate the activities for her each day without letting her know it,s for therapy. This year will continue to be a challenge for us with Kayla as she continues to struggle with her responses to things she doesn’t like and when she gets overwhelmed. We deal with constant screaming outbursts and intense crying periods. It seems to be a combination of her age, personality, and the disorder. Please continue to pray specifically for these areas for Kayla as she continues to demand a lot of our family time. The Lord continues to teach me so much through this and we have been thankful to connect with several families who share similar family experiences with kids like Kayla. It is intense having kids with this disorder but I am thankful for her sweet spirit as well. Daily I pray for the Lord to continue His healing process in her.
Thank you for your continued support of our ministry we are truly blessed by you all and continue to see God’s work being done here.
Kara for the Gibsons
Monday, September 17, 2007
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Back in Kenya
Hi everyone
We have been back now for little over a month and boy what a month it has been. At the end of July we had raised $900 of our needed $1000 monthly support. We arrived back in Kenya safely and had great flights with both of the girls. From Amsterdam they slept almost 7 of the 8 hour trip, we were blessed. Three days after we returned we moved into our new house and the next day Eric started back to work. We have been in school for about 4 weeks now and things are settling into a good routine.
Eric is teaching 4 classes this year, 9 th/10th Grade Bible and 9th/10th Grade Science. He only has one new class this year that he hasn’t taught and so the work load is much less this year. We are hoping for a lot less stress in our ministry this year. We had 8 new teachers arrive this year. This group looks to be staying more than two years so that is exciting to see. We also had another family come to work at the school this year teaching in the 4th grade class. This year we have an accreditation coordinator who will be working at our school trying to get us accredited by the end of this year. This task would be huge for our work with the high school. If we can become an accredited school then we have a good chance of retaining most of our older students rather than losing them to another bigger International school across town. Retaining our students will hopefully help our high school to become larger and stronger. So this task of becoming accredited this year would be ideal.
Eric will be leaving this weekend for a two day men’s camping trip with the African Inland Missionaries. He is trying this year to start connecting with other guys in the Nairobi area. They are headed up to Lake Naivasha area 2 hours north of Nairobi.
We are excited to be in our new house. I can’t believe what a change it has been for our family. Our new house is more open on the inside and we have a little backyard for the girls to play. We have been busy unpacking, painting, organizing, and installing internet. We have a fireplace in our living room and it has been a really cold winter here so it has been fun to sit in front of the fire and read stories and roast marshmellows. Our deepest thanks to our new supporters who made this move possible for us. We now no longer feel trapped at home and feel like we have some privacy and can relax with our family.
Kayla has been doing so well lately. We want to thank you for all of your prayers for her. We have seen so much growth lately just in this short time we have been home. It has been good for her to have her own bedroom back, lots of outdoor space to play, and to get into a routine again. We have been trying new therapy activities with her as well as modifying her diet to try and sneak vitamins and what not into it without her being able to taste the difference. Some ways that she has grown is that instead of crying and breaking down during transitions she has become more confident in her abilities and has started saying okay mommy okay dad to lots of requests. She doesn’t cry anymore when I leave her at school and she is really enjoying the kids at school now instead of being threatened by them. She is bonding more with Emma and really loves to hug and kiss her. Please pray for us as we look for a therapist here who can work with her once a week and that it would be affordable for us. Every night we pray for continued healing in her mind will you pray that with us. We are excited as we see so much growth in her this past month, and we have enjoyed being with her so much more. Praise God as he takes me on this journey with Kayla.
We were so thrilled to meet with most of our supporters this summer and hopefully for those we missed we can connect when we are home again in the Summer of 2009. We were blessed by your outpouring of prayer for our ministry and also blessed by the new supporters God brought our way. We feel excited to be in this new house and to start a new phase of our ministry by using our home as a meeting place. This month we will host Kayla’s preschool class for a breakfast and have our first school fun time with the 10th grade and 80’s movie night. There are not many social outlets for the kids here so it will be neat to provide them with some fun activities this year. Our next gathering will be a harvest party for the high school in October.
Since coming back from the states after this first furlough we have felt more at peace here. Just in knowing within ourselves that this is where God wants us. We had a special time connecting with our families and we do miss being able to see them, this has been one of our biggest sacrifices not being able to have our kids know their grandparents. It was such a blessing for us to see how our parent’s relationship with God and serving Him has blessed us two fold. When we visited the states we were able to really see that our parents work in other people’s lives has really trickled down to our ministry. We have had many supporters who are part of our ministry because of their connection with our parents as well as individuals who have given us gifts of money because our parents have been a blessing in their lives. It was inspiring to me to see this played out and I can only hope that I can be this for our kids someday as well. Live for God completely and His blessings will be unique to see.
We continue to search for a church here where we can connect and grow. It will be a challenge for us as we have little ones and there isn’t much of a kids program here in the churches. Last Sunday we went to an international church with missionaries, Kenyans, and Indians. The kids program consisted of Kayla and Emma playing on the floor with a Kenyan woman and some toys. Kayla lasted about 10 minutes and then came looking for me in the church. Needless to say I usually only can hear about 10 minutes of the sermon. It is an ongoing challenge here for missionaries as we seek to settle into the Kenyan community and adapt to church life here. This will be our main prayer request this year that the Lord will reveal to us what he wants for us regarding church.
Prayer requests:
Eric- that work will slow down at school and that he will truly enjoy being back and teaching, that the Lord will continue to reveal to him how to connect with our girls when we are in the “all about mommy stage” of life
Kayla-continued growth in her abilities to express herself and talking, that we are able to find a good and affordable therapist for her
Emma-that she will grow in her abilities to get along with Kayla (she is in the stage where she wants to be doing whatever Kayla is doing and that annoys Kayla)
Kara-that I can carve out time in my day to spend time with God, that I will have an open heart to seeing the needs of Kenyans and listen for God’s wisdom in how to meet those needs
Thank you for your continued prayers for us and our ministry , we continue to feel those daily. Check out the pictures of our new house.
Blessings on your day , we would love to hear how your summer went.
Eric and Kara
We have been back now for little over a month and boy what a month it has been. At the end of July we had raised $900 of our needed $1000 monthly support. We arrived back in Kenya safely and had great flights with both of the girls. From Amsterdam they slept almost 7 of the 8 hour trip, we were blessed. Three days after we returned we moved into our new house and the next day Eric started back to work. We have been in school for about 4 weeks now and things are settling into a good routine.
Eric is teaching 4 classes this year, 9 th/10th Grade Bible and 9th/10th Grade Science. He only has one new class this year that he hasn’t taught and so the work load is much less this year. We are hoping for a lot less stress in our ministry this year. We had 8 new teachers arrive this year. This group looks to be staying more than two years so that is exciting to see. We also had another family come to work at the school this year teaching in the 4th grade class. This year we have an accreditation coordinator who will be working at our school trying to get us accredited by the end of this year. This task would be huge for our work with the high school. If we can become an accredited school then we have a good chance of retaining most of our older students rather than losing them to another bigger International school across town. Retaining our students will hopefully help our high school to become larger and stronger. So this task of becoming accredited this year would be ideal.
Eric will be leaving this weekend for a two day men’s camping trip with the African Inland Missionaries. He is trying this year to start connecting with other guys in the Nairobi area. They are headed up to Lake Naivasha area 2 hours north of Nairobi.
We are excited to be in our new house. I can’t believe what a change it has been for our family. Our new house is more open on the inside and we have a little backyard for the girls to play. We have been busy unpacking, painting, organizing, and installing internet. We have a fireplace in our living room and it has been a really cold winter here so it has been fun to sit in front of the fire and read stories and roast marshmellows. Our deepest thanks to our new supporters who made this move possible for us. We now no longer feel trapped at home and feel like we have some privacy and can relax with our family.
Kayla has been doing so well lately. We want to thank you for all of your prayers for her. We have seen so much growth lately just in this short time we have been home. It has been good for her to have her own bedroom back, lots of outdoor space to play, and to get into a routine again. We have been trying new therapy activities with her as well as modifying her diet to try and sneak vitamins and what not into it without her being able to taste the difference. Some ways that she has grown is that instead of crying and breaking down during transitions she has become more confident in her abilities and has started saying okay mommy okay dad to lots of requests. She doesn’t cry anymore when I leave her at school and she is really enjoying the kids at school now instead of being threatened by them. She is bonding more with Emma and really loves to hug and kiss her. Please pray for us as we look for a therapist here who can work with her once a week and that it would be affordable for us. Every night we pray for continued healing in her mind will you pray that with us. We are excited as we see so much growth in her this past month, and we have enjoyed being with her so much more. Praise God as he takes me on this journey with Kayla.
We were so thrilled to meet with most of our supporters this summer and hopefully for those we missed we can connect when we are home again in the Summer of 2009. We were blessed by your outpouring of prayer for our ministry and also blessed by the new supporters God brought our way. We feel excited to be in this new house and to start a new phase of our ministry by using our home as a meeting place. This month we will host Kayla’s preschool class for a breakfast and have our first school fun time with the 10th grade and 80’s movie night. There are not many social outlets for the kids here so it will be neat to provide them with some fun activities this year. Our next gathering will be a harvest party for the high school in October.
Since coming back from the states after this first furlough we have felt more at peace here. Just in knowing within ourselves that this is where God wants us. We had a special time connecting with our families and we do miss being able to see them, this has been one of our biggest sacrifices not being able to have our kids know their grandparents. It was such a blessing for us to see how our parent’s relationship with God and serving Him has blessed us two fold. When we visited the states we were able to really see that our parents work in other people’s lives has really trickled down to our ministry. We have had many supporters who are part of our ministry because of their connection with our parents as well as individuals who have given us gifts of money because our parents have been a blessing in their lives. It was inspiring to me to see this played out and I can only hope that I can be this for our kids someday as well. Live for God completely and His blessings will be unique to see.
We continue to search for a church here where we can connect and grow. It will be a challenge for us as we have little ones and there isn’t much of a kids program here in the churches. Last Sunday we went to an international church with missionaries, Kenyans, and Indians. The kids program consisted of Kayla and Emma playing on the floor with a Kenyan woman and some toys. Kayla lasted about 10 minutes and then came looking for me in the church. Needless to say I usually only can hear about 10 minutes of the sermon. It is an ongoing challenge here for missionaries as we seek to settle into the Kenyan community and adapt to church life here. This will be our main prayer request this year that the Lord will reveal to us what he wants for us regarding church.
Prayer requests:
Eric- that work will slow down at school and that he will truly enjoy being back and teaching, that the Lord will continue to reveal to him how to connect with our girls when we are in the “all about mommy stage” of life
Kayla-continued growth in her abilities to express herself and talking, that we are able to find a good and affordable therapist for her
Emma-that she will grow in her abilities to get along with Kayla (she is in the stage where she wants to be doing whatever Kayla is doing and that annoys Kayla)
Kara-that I can carve out time in my day to spend time with God, that I will have an open heart to seeing the needs of Kenyans and listen for God’s wisdom in how to meet those needs
Thank you for your continued prayers for us and our ministry , we continue to feel those daily. Check out the pictures of our new house.
Blessings on your day , we would love to hear how your summer went.
Eric and Kara
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Our last update from America
Dear Friends, family and supporters
We can't believe that our time here has gone so quick but tomorrow we leave for Minnesota and then on to Amsterdam. We will arrive home Sat night and then move into our new house Sun and Monday. We were able to finish raising the last of our needed monthly support but ask for your continued prayers as we finish working out those details in August. By the end of August we should have picture of our new house and be able to show you all that you helped us to accomplish.
July was a whirlwind of activity we visited 10 life groups, had a lunch for supporters, 2 dessert nights, a Biola reunion , and a family reunion. It was fun to see everyone and we were truly blessed by your words of encouragement and feel like we will be going back to Kenya with our spirits rejuvinated. At the beginning of the summer we wondered if we would want to go back and we definitely say yes, we are ready to return and start a new chapter in our lives. We thank you for all of your extra gifts these past few months and for your increase in our monthly support. We were able to buy clothes, shoes, and Christmas gifts for our whole family.
Eric returns to work next Wednesday for meetings and school starts the following Monday. He is looking forward to teaching just high school next year. He will have four classes 9/10th Bible and Science. He is excited to start a new year and hopefully becuase he has already taught 3 out of 4 of his classes his workload will be less this year.
This summer we were also able get Kayla officially diagnosed as having Sensory Integration Disorder. Basically her brain just doesn't process correctly all of the input she receives from the five senses. Check out our September letter as I talk about her disorder and my year of growth with her. She has been receiving Occupational therapy while we were here and it is good to see her enjoying it. It has been hard seeing her be tested for areas of weakness and observing the glaring discrepencies. As parents isn't it always our first hope that nothing is wrong with our children. The Lord has been showing me so much about himself through my relationship with Kayla. Will you pray for me specifically that I wouldn't feel overwhelmed. When we return we will be reading several books we bought on SI, formulating a routine for Kayla at home, and also finding a therapist for outside therapy several times a week. It's going to be a big job. The prognosis looks good though, it looks like within a year of therapy we should see tons of improvement.
Thanks again for all of your continued prayers we have felt them in regards to safety especially
Prayer requests:
1/Safe flight back and that the kids would sleep tons on the airplane
2/quick adjustment back with jet lag as we move the next day and start work
3/ the moving truck and people helping us move would come together
4/ confidence for me as I embark on this adventure with kayla
5/ strength and excitement for Eric as he starts a new year
6/ a renewing of excitement for returning to Kenya that we would really come to understand and love Kenyans more this term
Blessings on the rest of your summer we will miss you all, until the next time
Eric and Kara Gibson
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