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40% Towards Our Goal!

Post author By Frieddy
Post date December 2, 2015

We are looking back on a great couple months. We moved to Germany from the US in May, and visited Frieddy’s brother in Sweden on our way to Germany. We had prayed for a car in Europe and God had provided a car in Sweden that we are still using right now. Praise God! 🙂 From Sweden we went down to Denmark where we took a ferry to get to Germany.

It took our boys especially Ben Elliot a while to adjust to German culture (and us too 🙂 and to the change in life, but thankfully they are really enjoying being here in Germany right now and are already excited about moving to PNG soon.

– Ben Elliot calls it “Papa and Guinea” –

We are full swing into partnership development now which includes lots of traveling, speaking in churches, meeting with people and many things more. On the side we need to do a lot of doctors visits, and we have to get a lot of immunizations and paperwork done. We are at 40% of our financial support goal, please keep praying that God would raise up more people who are willing to support us in our ministry. If you want to make a (monthly) gift towards our ministry please click below.

We are in the PNG application process and moving towards the visa application. It is super exciting to finally be “really” preparing to go to Papua New Guinea!

We are incredibly thankful for how God has brought us through. He is good and He will do it. We are grateful for all of you who have stood behind us in prayer and in financial support all those years! We could not have done it without you!

So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most. Heb 4:16

If you would like to give towards our ministry click here.

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On the move

Post author By Frieddy
Post date June 23, 2015

We made it back to Germany! After a long time of traveling and seeing many people we finally arrived in Germany! We are so thankful for how God helped us during the travel. We are super excited to see family and friends here again! We are feeling overwhelmed when we think about the year that is ahead of us here in Germany but we know that God is here. Please be in prayer for us as we prepare everything to move to PNG in summer 2016.

Tags family, ministry, Move, Tribal Missions

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Thanksgiving in a Box

Post author By Johanna
Post date December 1, 2014

WOW!! Mt. Carmel Baptist Church donated a number of Thanksgiving Boxes for families here at the MTC again this year!!! So so thankful for God's provision through these wonderful people!!!

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Ben Elliot’s Thankfulness Bag

Post author By Johanna
Post date December 1, 2014

They made this in child care last week. Ben Elliot's teacher asked them every day what they are thankful for and wrote it on sticky notes. She also added some treats to the bag. Ben Elliot was so excited that some of them didn't even make it on the photo... :)

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5 Months old :)

Post author By Johanna
Post date December 1, 2014

He smiles all the time, loves watching his big brother play, rolls over from his tummy to his back and almost always calms down when we put on some music. We love our sweet Linus!!!

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A Night Hike

Post author By Johanna
Post date November 12, 2014

Today Frieddy and Ben Elliot went on a little night hike right before bedtime. It is impossible to describe how excited Ben Elliot was!! He had a blast!! I guess it was his first time going for a walk in the dark. He loved spending time with his Daddy! And he loved using his little headlight to explore different things around campus – like cars, tractors and diggers of course… 🙂

I was reminded of how God wants to use as lights in a dark, dark world… How many people are still living without the hope of a Savior. And how just a little light can make an incredible difference! Please pray for us that we would stay focused on the task as we are studying Linguistics this semester and are getting closer to going overseas. Pray for us that Christ would be magnified in our lives and that we would be faithful servants. And please pray for the millions of unreached people that so desperately need the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

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4 Months Old!

Post author By Johanna
Post date October 20, 2014

I can’t believe our sweet Linus is 4 months already!!! Incredibly thankful for this happy little boy. He brings so much joy into our lives. Thank you, God!

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Home with the Boys

Post author By Johanna
Post date October 15, 2014

I stayed home with my sweet boys today because they are sick.

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Summer Update In Pictures

Post author By Johanna
Post date October 11, 2014

Probably the last time at the beach this summer

Wow, trying to sum up everything that happened this summer could fill endless pages… So I decided to just post some photos that speak for themselves 🙂 Our summer break started at the end of May and we spent most of it at the MTC, while Frieddy was able to work on campus for a few weeks. This was especially nice because our visas do not allow us to get jobs off campus. The biggest highlight was of course the arrival of our son Linus! We are so thankful that everything went well and we are so thrilled to be a family of four now! Just like Ben Elliot, Linus had trouble with his digestion for the first months of his life. After a lot of visits with his midwife and his doctor, many sleepless nights and trying to figure out what could help him, he is now feeling much better. Praise God!

We also loved spending a whole month with my mom, sister and youngest brother who came all the way from Germany to visit us! They were such a big encouragement to us and we soaked up every minute that we spent talking and having fun together! Ben Elliot turned two in July and we had a fun little birthday party for him. We spent lots of time with friends and also as a family. Ben Elliot is talking a lot now, both English and German and often at the same time, haha… 🙂 He loves tractors and diggers, the pool and the lake, helping in the kitchen and reading books. Linus smiles all day long, except when he does not – usually when he is hungry or tired… They both love to go on walks. Ben Elliot loves to run around, and Linus usually sleeps through the whole thing in the baby carrier. Frieddy and I had a pretty good start into the semester, although Linguistics does not come easy for both of us. This semester has proven to be one of the hardest so far, considering the time we need to spend studying but also the adjustments for us as a family to a much tighter schedule… God has been teaching us a lot of different things. But I will post more about Ling in another blog entry. Enough for now, before I really start to fill endless pages…

It’s story time! Ben Elliot enjoys the last days that he has Mommy and Daddy all for himself… 🙂

Setting the table for some friends that were coming over.

His favorite pool game was playing “fish”!

Reading books is much more comfortable with a pillow on your head…

Some more reading…

This was on the day Linus was born, June 20. I went to see the midwife for a check-up and ended up staying right there. We are so thankful how God worked everything out, because her office is 1 hour away from the MTC.

Everything went well and our precious son was born at 9:19pm! God is so good! 🙂

Ready to go home a few hours after he was born.

Ben Elliot meets Linus for the first time! (I apologize for the bad quality picture, but it was difficult to capture this moment since he was sooooo excited!)

So sleepy…..

My midwife came to check on us at home.

A day after Linus was born, my family came to visit. Here my brother Daniel meets Linus for the first time… 🙂

Story time with Auntie Salome!

Time with Daddy 🙂

Out on our first walk, showing my family around.

Sharing a frappucino 😉

Every time we went somewhere, the boys were looking out for dear. Finally we saw some!

Ben Elliot and Daniel. These guys had so much fun together!

Fun on the playground

On our way back. This little boy was so tired he fell asleep while eating a cracker.

I know this is funny since we’re Germans, but we still enjoyed the 4th of July fireworks!

My mom with my brother and Ben Elliot.

A DIGGER!!! Most exciting for little boys…

Hanging out at the lake

An uncle and his nephew 😉

They both wanted to hold on to my moms hand 🙂

1 month old already!

Ben Elliot turned 2 towards the of our time with my family. We had a little party for him with some friends form the MTC.

Yummy!

Happy Birthday Ben Elliot!

Daniel really liked his birthday hat!

One more day in the pool before my family left.

The three of us 🙂

It was almost impossible to get a good picture of these two boys 🙂 Here we are at the airport, waiting for their flight to take up.

My mom with her two grandkids.

My Mom and I

Time to say goodbye! It was sad to see my family having to go back Germany. We had such an amazing time together!! So blessed and thankful!

Calling Oma and Opa in Germany 🙂

We had so much fun at the beach!

Frieddy coming home after work. Ben Elliot had waited for him all day!

Brothers! I am so excited to see them to grow up together!!

Trying out his new apron…

We made countless trips out to see the diggers this summer.

That’s our family!

2 months old!

This is a few days after the semester had started. Johanna (and Linus) working on homework for Linguistics 🙂

Linus had a lot of problems with his digestion and we spent many nights rocking and holding him.

Ben Elliot, can you smile?!

In his carseat

“Mommy, fun!!” Cooking together is one of the most exciting things there is!

Bedtime stoy

Digging

And more diggers….

Brothers hanging out together

Spending time with friends! This is Hank, our sweet friends’ Jake and Ally’s little son and Ben Elliot’s buddy. So excited to have them here at the MTC with us now!