NTM - New Tribes Mission | Planting Tribal Churches

This 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 12-16^th. 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 1^st birthday on July 4^th with celebrations on the 1^st and 4^th 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