Sunday snapshots!

Watching the first Bronco game of the season!

Alastair’s second birthday party on the base. We have a lot of kids living on the base now.

We picked up a lady hitchhiking to church, this was the picture I got. Did not want to seem like a creeper…

The obligatory Reese picture!

Communion at church on Sunday.

David’s bed side table with all our security stuff.

Fire!

This past week there was fire on the base! Whenever that happens all the men jump in cars, and race off to the scene to put the fire out. They take buckets of water, and some have the little water back pack things. They sometimes have to run up and down hills to get to the fire. The fire brigade was there, but out here in Nam, and in the hills all they had were blankets. So the firemen were slapping at the flames with the blankets while the men from our farm sprayed with the water. In no time they had it taken care of.
From where I was I only saw the smoke plumes.
Pray we don’t have any more fire, and that they rainy season gets started soon!

Sunday Snapshots

I think I am going to try to post some snapshots from our week every Sunday night. That way you can feel like you were right here in the middle of the action 😉
This week is skinny pickings since I only had this bright idea on Friday. So I guess this is a snap shot of the weekend.
In other news, things are going great here. We are slowly getting the office ready and will soon be starting the first discipleship classes.

The first glimpse of spring, and yes, those thorns are on most trees…

David and Marye working on the bathroom overhaul.

Some of the succulents in our garden.

Saturday at the watering hole.

The view from my kitchen.

Reese’s nine month shot.

Our new home.

I thought it might be interesting to show off some pictures of the place we now live. We live on the YWAM farm, or base, 20 km outside of town. The farm has over 11 homes filled with families, and singles, from all over the world. All who are doing ministry in some capacity in Windhoek.
There are cows and goats, and baboons, snakes, eagles, warthogs, leopards, kudus, all sorts of birds, and a scary amount of creepy crawlies!
We love living here, there is such a great sense of community, and now with all the families with kids on the base I have a great resource if I have any questions.

View from out front door.

Road up to our house, past the corral.

Right side of the house, the washing machine stays outside.

Reese checking out the baby goats.

Our house, you can see out awesome porch. (left side)

View to the right of our house. You can see the dorms and dining hall.

Sweet home Namibia!

We made it home. About three weeks ago. So it is high time for me to tend to my lonely little blog. We live out on the YWAM farm, where there is limited net so I am going to have to blog when we are in town. We do have an office at the BK site in Katutura and I plan on going in at least twice a week, so look forward to more blog posts in the coming weeks.
We are finally in a place where things are getting back to normal. Or at least our new normal with a new ministry and living out on the farm. Reese has adjusted to the time changes, but is now teething and he is still not used to the “new” place he is in so we are still having some rough nights. He has never slept through the night yet, but last week we had some nights where he was up at least once every hour.
Things at the base (the ywam farm is called a base) are going great! We have a bunch of new neighbors. The Hunters’ son and daughter in law, along with their three kids, moved onto the base. Christian Hunter is a cardiologist and is teaching in the brand new medical school in Namibia. There is also a South African couple with two kids, they live in the house behind ours. They are a great resource as they have lived in the bush before and Quinton seems to know a little bit about a lot of things!
We have spent the last week furnishing the office, we still have to buy a few things but it should be ready before long. We hope to find a little couch to make it a little more comfortable in here for when we have meetings with people. We have also been dreaming about some new ideas to further the ministry here. I am hoping to be able to teach a cake decorating class. It would be such a great way to teach someone a skill that could take them farther in life. We were at the mall a few days ago and a child’s birthday party was happening at the restaurant we were at. They had two cakes, from bakeries, and they were just awful, think cake wrecks awful. So I know there is a market for it! I will just need to get some cake decorating supplies. Anyone know if Wilton donates?
We were welcomed back with much love and open arms on both the YWAM base and at the church that we attend. It was a great feeling to be back home!
We enjoyed out time in America. Time spent with family is priceless, we got to meet our new sister in law, see our awesome (and totally gorgeous nieces), Reese absolutely fell in love with his aunt Candace, and best of all Reese got to spend lots of time with both sets of his grandparents.
Also meeting with supporters and churches was a huge blessing. After two years on the field getting to see a lot of you face to face was very encouraging, and a huge blessing to us. Now we are waiting for some of you to come on over here!