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First Snow
Posted by Jason and Angie Bechtel on Sunday, October 31st, 2010Rebirths and an Anticipated Birth
Posted by Jason and Angie Bechtel on Monday, October 4th, 2010From the spiritual battlefield in Papua New Guinea to the special belly of Angie, this ministry update brings you up to speed on exciting rebirths and an anticipated birth.
Lorelei’s Teeth
Posted by Jason and Angie Bechtel on Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Lorelei has been doing a lot of teething the past little while. I’ve been meaning to take a picture of her top teeth because they showed up in an unusual order. Her bottom teeth were straightforward. The bottom middle and then one on either side. On the top, she first got one eye tooth and then the other. It looked like two little fangs and, unfortunately, I never was able to capture it on camera. Now the middle two are finally coming in. I had her laughing at lunch a couple days ago, and decided to grab the camera. This is what I managed to capture (excuse the food!):
Surprise visit from Nova Scotia
Posted by Jason and Angie Bechtel on Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Yesterday we had surprise visitors from Nova Scotia! A lady who has been a friend of my grandma’s for years was visiting my grandma, along with her friend. Mom called me in the morning to see if I wanted company for supper and the gang all showed up in the afternoon. It was fun to catch up and show them around the NTMC property as they had never been here before. It was nice to introduce them to Lorelei and for them to see how much Delena has grown in the past 2 years! 
—Angie
August Email Update
Posted by Jason and Angie Bechtel on Thursday, August 5th, 2010This summer has been filled with activities. To kick off the summer we took a day trip, as a family to Storybook Park in Owen Sound. We went with the Moms ‘n’ Tots group that I have been attending, from the Hanover Missionary church. Delena spent most of the day on rides with her friend, Caleb.
Vacation Bible School
The next big event was Avalanche Ranch VBS. Jason and I were both on the planning committee once again, so we’d been building up to this event for months. It finally came the week of July 12-16th. We had a profitable week with 39 kids registering and our highest day being 35 kids. I played the roll of the behind-the-scenes director and Jason was a group co-leader for the Gr. 5/6 group. We were quite pleased with the turn-out and everything ran very smoothly. One of the highlights of the week was the Thursday night family night. There was only one family missing from the group of kids attending for the week and some great conversations were had with unchurched families.
Home Project of the Summer
This month has been characterized by a deck for Jason. He is putting a deck on the back of our house from the second story (main level from the front). He’s never done something like this before, so it’s been weeks of planning and calculating and now, building. I’m so proud of him for sticking it out even when mistakes happened! It’s still not done, but it looks great so far!
Learning to Swim
Another fun thing this month has been taking Delena to swimming lessons. It’s her first time and there are 5 kids in her little class with 2 instructors. The lessons are at the Durham wading pool, which is up to Delena’s chest almost, in the deep end. She’s done very well. She didn’t want to put her head under the water at all on the second day (which was their first time) but now she’s the only one who will do it without the instructor’s ‘help’. She’s good at floating on her back and will attempt to swim forward, but hasn’t quite figured out how to kick your legs, move your arms AND put your face in the water! Thursday and Friday of this past week she told the instructors that she “was tired of yessons”. Today she was wanting to do them again, so hopefully this long weekend was a long enough break for her and she can finish off this last week of lessons with a bang.
Lorelei Turns 1
Uncle Sean Bechtel sharing his birthday with Lorelei
Lorelei is so much fun these days. She celebrated her 1st birthday on July 4th with celebrations on the 1st and 4th of July. She is now walking everywhere and falling lots too. She has two teeth on the bottom (old news) and her two eye teeth on the top so it looks like little fangs. She enjoys playing with her big sister and especially with whatever big sister DOESN’T want her to play with!
Thanks again for all your prayers and a BIG thank you for everyone who financially helped us out this last month.
—Angie for the 4 of us
Family Outing to Storybook Park
Posted by Jason and Angie Bechtel on Wednesday, July 7th, 2010After Jason got back from his conference in Indiana, we had the opportunity to go to Storybook Park. I’ve been going to a Moms and Tots group for the last couple of months and as our last “hurrah” before the summer we all went to the park for the day. Jason was able to join us, so it was a nice family outing. Lorelei went on a few rides, but mostly enjoyed the swings. Delena went on EVERY ride and enjoyed each one. We also had a tag-along for the day — Delena’s friend, Caleb. It was nice for Delena to have someone with whom to go on all the rides. Of course, us parents supervised! It was a good day because it was overcast. It only rained a little around 2 and we didn’t even feel the earthquake!
Jungle Camp Staff Open House 2010
Posted by Jason and Angie Bechtel on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Two Wednesdays ago we got to partake in the Jungle Camp feasting. Each year after the first year students have moved up to Jungle Camp they hold an Open House for the staff. This year we were invited by Jacob and Melissa to a meal of tacos. Yum! You can see from the pictures that Melissa is quite pregnant and the next day they delivered a baby girl. Congratulations Jacob and Melissa and thanks for a great supper!
June’s Email Update
Posted by Jason and Angie Bechtel on Wednesday, June 16th, 2010Sweat glistening on his face, his feet heavily powdered in the dry dirt of the road, he knocked at the door. His request wasn’t unusual, the fact he had walked 22 miles was. For 22 miles he had carried a note, a list. A list of 41 names. 41 names representing 41 people who wanted to hear God’s Word.
Read the rest of the story.
Jason’s New Ministry
Of all thats new for us this spring, probably the biggest change is Jason’s ministry! Jason is now working in the Communications and Media Department. He enjoyed working in his book-keeping ministry, but graphic design has always been his passion. He is super excited to be spending all his time in this new ministry. For more details, read here: http://blogs.ntm.org/jason-bechtel/
New Leadership
Another change has been the new leadership here at New Tribes Mission of Canada. Ray Jones has been with the mission for over 35 years and has been the chairman of the leadership team for a number of years. With Ray’s retirement, my cousin’s husband, Tim Whatley, has assumed the reins. It has been nice to have them around, although we’ll miss Ray.
Barry Challinor, who also served on the leadership team and as a trainer in the Missionary Training Centre, along with his wife, Christine, will be heading back to England as their Visas were not renewed this year. It is sad to see them go, but we know it is the Lord’s timing. So yes, lots of changes.
Missionaries to the Field
As far as the students, another class has graduated and have headed out their various ways to serve the Lord. It’s so neat to watch them and see where the Lord takes them. The first year class is in their first week of Jungle Camp (here’s pictures from our month in the bush). They have two pregnant ladies amongst them, for whom you can be praying. One of them will be induced on Thursday if she hasn’t had her baby and the other is due in two weeks! In case you’re worried, yes, they’re allowed to come out of the bush to have their babies!
Angie’s New Job
On the home front, I’ve started a tutoring job in town. I started with two students and now I am up to four! It’s still only one evening a week though, which is great! I have three highschool math students and a grade three student. My grade three student is in French Immersion, so I do all her subjects with her—mostly in English, but I do some French work as well.
Delena and Lorelei
The girls continue to grow and amaze me with the things they say and do. Delena still enjoys visiting the ladies at the retirement home. On the weekend, we were out for a walk and she wanted to visit ‘Grandma Szabo.’ I told her that Grandma Szabo probably had family visiting so we wouldn’t visit her today. She was quick to reply, “Let’s go and visit with them then because we’re family too!”
Lorelei turns 1 on July 4th and is starting to show her fun and mischievous side. She can climb up the stairs now and thinks she’s quite clever. She’ll start to climb them and then turn to make sure you’re watching. If you are and you come to get her, she’ll giggle and take off faster. Too cute!
We really appreciate all your prayers for us as a family. Finding (and keeping) a balance takes constant attention. Between personal time with the Lord, quality time as a couple and with our girls, our multi-faceted ministry with New Tribes Mission, staying connected with family, friends and a number of churches, life is always full of excitement. The more we think about these responsibitilities, the more we are reminded to let go and let God. Only God can bring any good out of our lives.
Not only can we do nothing without Christ, but we can’t do this without your prayers and support. Each one on our team has a vital role in seeing the good news about Jesus Christ brought to tribal people around the world.
Millions unreached, none unreachable.
Angie for the Bechtel’s
Birthday’s Galore
Posted by Jason and Angie Bechtel on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Among our weekend activities have been a few birthdays. This year we have been celebrating the birthdays in twos since it seems there are few weekends where everyone’s schedule works together and always two birthdays near each other. Three weekends ago Jason was preaching at Bethel Chapel in Waterloo, so we were able to go down on Saturday to my sister’s apartment to celebrate my mom’s and Jason’s birthdays.
This was Jason’s first birthday under the gluten-free restrictions, so that made the cake-baking effort a little more challenging. My mom’s favourite cake is a special 3-layer cake that her aunt used to make. I decided to make that for her and the rest of us. That turned out to be a little more challenging than it should have been. I had never made it before, but I had the recipe, so I checked it over a couple days in advance to make sure I had all the ingredients. I did, but I noticed that the recipe for the filling between layers was missing. I called my grandma to find out some answers, but she didn’t have that part of the recipe. So I decided to just use the information I had in hopes that the icing was the same as the filling.
On the day of the cake-making I made the cakes and the icing only to discover that no, the icing is NOT the same as the filling. I knew the filling was some sort of pudding, but I couldn’t remember what the icing was like. That’s when the phone came out again. I called everyone I could think of and finally someone was home to tell me the coveted pudding recipe! So I completed Mom’s cake.
Onto Jason’s cake. He told me that he wanted cheesecake, so it actually turned out to be more straightforward than mom’s cake. It was only the crust where I had to make a substitution. Instead of 1 cup of white flour, I used a mixture of white rice flour, potato starch and tapioca flour! A little brown sugar, some butter and crushed pecans and voila!
Here are some pictures of Delena with the cakes. It was her first cake decorating experience.
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- Delena helped decorate her Grandma’s birthday 3-layer birthday cake
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- Delena showing off her Daddy’s birthday cake
Weddings and a Wedding Anniversary
Posted by Jason and Angie Bechtel on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Okay, so it’s been awhile since we’ve posted anything on here. Thus, we’re taking you back to March! For Spring break, the girls and I headed down to Ohio to visit my cousin and her family. They have two little boys who, at the time, were 2 years old and 2 months old. Delena and the older boy had a blast playing together while the younger two tried not to get mauled by the older kids! My cousin and I thoroughly enjoyed having the WHOLE week together. We haven’t spent that much time together since before she and I hit the teen years! We had beautiful weather, thankfully, so we spent a lot of time at local parks keeping the kids busy and tiring them out. Check out the pictures on the web album.
A Baby Shower! As we posted earlier, my sister had a baby boy, so of course, being the wonderful aunt that I am, I had to host a shower. It was lots of work and lots of fun. I tried my hand at fondant icing for the first time and let’s just say that it’s a lot harder than it looks! Here’s a few pictures from the event.
We couldn't quite see the Canadian Falls
At Ripley's Believe it or Not
The US Falls as seen from Canada
Among our numerous weekend activities have been two weddings. We went to one in April for a former co-worker of Jason’s down in Port Colborne. We also decided to celebrate our wedding anniversary early (May 6 was 4 years!) and got a hotel for the night. We played tourist Friday night at Niagara Falls. It’s a good thing it wasn’t our only opportunity to see the falls as they were mostly covered with fog!
We were also at a wedding this past weekend for a friend of Jason’s from college. This second we were a little more involved with as Jason was the best man! Jason went down Thursday night and stayed through until Saturday night. I joined him for the rehearsal and dinner on Friday evening and then we parted ways for the night since they didn’t invite me to the bachelor party! 
I, on the other hand, got to stay the night at a friend’s house from college and stayed up until 1am talking with her. Good thing the girls were with grandparents because I would have been way too tired to get up with them in the morning.
I joined Jason at the 3pm wedding. Thankfully it was inside with the touch snow in the air and the gale winds! The wedding went off with only minor glitches that an inside person would know about and I must say that Jason did the best “best man” job that I’ve ever seen!
