May 2009
Ministry Update
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Praying for
needed support for medical costs...
finalizing installations in the UK and France...
safe travel to the Netherlands and Portugal in June to begin installations...
entering a time of evaluation--December 2009 marks 3 years...
We are thankful for
opportunity for Jana to serve in our German church by helping create welcome packets for visitors...
Oliver and his giggles...
safe and calm travel in the months of April and May...
Jana’s first Mother’s Day...
enjoyable and productive meetings with leaderhsip in May
Laugh Out Loud Moment
I’m at the grocery store bagging my own groceries (standard practice here), when the cashier asks for payment. Immediately I realize that I left my wallet at home and begin stuttering through random German words trying to explain. A long line of impatient people are standing behind me while she graciously tells me to pay the bill the next time. While this could be a “wow, that is amazing” story, what makes it an LOL moment was the next day while checking out with the same cashier, the same thing happened again.
Building Movements Through Administration
Sometimes it is hard to explain through words how the Lord is using technology to help further his kingdom. So for this letter, we thought to combine both visual (a map, shown right) and statistical information.
In the past year and a half, one of Thad’s projects has been to install and provide a donation data/software system called TntMPD.Dataserver. This system helps indigenous staff organize their support raising, while also connecting them to their donors and donations from any country in the system.
This not only benefits countries in Western and Eastern Europe, but has also been provided to Singapore, Brazil, India, Australia, and more...
A couple of other cool, little tidbits:
total number of countries using Dataserver: 56
(not all are shown on this map)
total number of staff/users: 1800
average monthly users: 883
What do these numbers boil down to?
Movement Building in 56 countries because 1800 National Staff are able to spend more time telling people about Jesus!
Oliver turns 6 months old today, and we must say that time has gone more quickly than expected. Here are a few milestones for him:
flown a total of 6 flights and traveled to 2 countries, not counting Switzerland & France
has had German, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, and Dutch spoken to him
has happily eaten rice cereal, avocado, carrots, bananas and peas
has not yet rolled over or begun sitting on his own, but he is very close
learned to make himself laugh...it is very, very cute
his smile seems to get brighter every day
