CCBI Staff

CCBI Staff

Friday, October 17, 2014

October News Letter

Newsletter
Wow!! Two months already… just gone by…Romania was sooo much fun! Such an adventure, and when I say that, I mean it.  The night before the wedding we woke up with literally rain in the apartment. It was 1 or 2 in the morning so Jake and I were still half asleep. We couldn’t really figure out what was happening, till I went out in the corridor where people were running up and down the stairs in their pj’s yelling about getting the plumber guy to come over to shut the water off. This is the story: we were blessed to use our friend’s apartment the entire time spent in Romania. He lives on the second floor. Well that “rainy” night the neighbour on the 4th floor had one of the HOT water pipes break. The water was gushing out in enormous quantities for something like 40 minutes; so he flooded all of us under him. No joke, water was just running down the stairs in the corridor and down our walls like a little nice river…when I jumped out of the bed my feet were half in water ….it was nuts…they shut the water off and told us the only thing we can do is go back to bed and worry about it next day when it will dry off a bit. And that’s exactly what we did.
Anyhow here we are two months later telling stories. Time flies by.  We got to seize the day!! When we got to New Zealand we had about 2 weeks of getting done with jet-lag, and set our focus on the upcoming semester. One huge adventure for our family: Jade started kindy!! Please keep her in your prayers to adjust and find her place at kindy. It is a little nice Christian kindy up in the hills of Rotorua.  Pray for us as well to keep showing Jade Jesus’ love and patience.   
 Our 9th semester here in New Zealand started on September 1, 2014. Altogether staff, interns and students make up 34 people. With more numbers we get new prayer requests as: bigger kitchen, one more car, commercial size dryer and washer, chicken and all other kinds of awesome things. And we all know when we pray exciting things happen: we moved into a bigger kitchen to be able to feed and seat everybody.  The staff on the ranch eats with us as well so we feed approx. 50 people every day. Please continue to pray for all us on staff for wisdom and patience in the daily routine. To be vigilant and seize the day. To honour Jesus in every little step we take and to never give up to bring glory to His name through the ministry that takes place here in New Zealand. 
Right now all the students, interns and part of our staff are out and about “making disciples of all nations” or we call it outreach time :). The students were given 3 locations to pray about: Melbourne, Wellington and here at Lakes Ranch. Jake is leading the one outreach to Melbourne, Australia. Please keep them in your prayers. 
Jadee and I stayed home. While Jade is at kindy, I am cooking for one of the camps here at Lakes Ranch.  Please pray for all the moms that stayed back with the little ones. 
Upcoming events: 
  • The school is hosting a “mini-conference”  It is called Equip, based off of Eph 4:12. Well a bit of background for this: for the past couple of semesters our Speakers Week became bigger and bigger as we had different other groups, from all over, come and join us. So for this semester we have opened it to anybody, (mostly to the churches in New Zealand and Australia), that is interested to come and fellowship…so please keep it in prayer as it is new, exciting pioneering work yayya!!
  • Jake’s family: mom-Katrina, Mandy (Jake’s sister) and her family, Christian, Olivia and Magnum ( the new baby boy) are coming to visit for two weeks. Keep them in your prayers as well.

Love you all!! Thank you for all your prayers and support.

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