Personal Update

Yesterday was a very good day for us. We enjoyed the morning service and in the evening went to the other church we are helping, as they have no Pastor.

It was very hot last night. I found a seat directly under the ceiling fan and was literally dripping with sweat. It was well over a 100*F outside and in a room packed with bodies, I can't even venture a guess as to the temperature inside the church. Poor Clint was on the platform, directly under the overhead lights, without even a fan. He was preaching away and wiping his forehead with his handkerchief every few seconds.

But it was well worth it! This church has been struggling for over a year without a Pastor and has lost members because of it. This discourages others and they have not had a steady availability of solid preaching and teaching. My husband has been preaching regularly for the last two months and you can see the difference in the people already.

The sermon was on Faith from I Thessalonians 2:3-8. At the invitation given at the end of the service, about 20 people went forward. Most were adults and 8 were men. We are planning an evangelistic campaign in the neighborhood next month and the people are excited to invite friends and family.

Clint continues with his Guarani lessons and now throws out words and phrases all the time. The Paraguayans really appreciate the effort he is making in studying their second language.

We have been working on student and leader guides to the Marriage Seminar materials which Clint had developed in Venezuela. We will begin a small group for married couples in our home next month using this material which is loosely based on the book,'Love and Respect'. We are excited to be able to share this with Paraguayans.

Clint also has been asked to be on the board of directors at the American Paraguayan Cultural Center. This will be an opportunity to meet people and interact with a different circle of Paraguayans. I am mostly excited about it because it means we can use their English library now!!!

We finished our summer break here in Paraguay, so Jayde and I started home school last week. My last time through High School! This is the first time in 20 years that I have only one student! Now my days are full of English Comp., General Science, World History I, Math, Christian Womanhood, Bible, and Literature.

I am using new curriculum. I had to change some of my books, not because the others were inferior, just that I could not bear to teach from the same books again. I was sick of them! Jayde is excited to have brand new books which no other student has ever touched! I never realized that being the youngest in the family, she had never experienced this, but I think she will miss all the notes written into the margins by her siblings! Each one left their opinions and aggravations in many of their books, for the next student to read. Mostly my oldest daughter, Jackie, left things like this in her Algebra book!



My son liked to leave his notes written in Greek... or Elvish. Very entertaining teaching these kids!

Not so important news, but still fun, is the fact that my girls are playing on the girl's church soccer team. They have been competing and the girls are still in the running! The guys did not fair so well. Jewel plays goalie and Jayde is on Defense (full back). Both are doing quite well for their team and having a good time competing against other churches in Asuncion and making friends with other young people.

We are the 'blue team'.

It looks like Jewel is playing basket ball in this shot!

Jayde and a friend on the team.

Please continue to pray for our friends in Venezuela
who have been missing for a full week now.