3measures so far…

Hey everyone, this is David… first time guest-bogger (does it still count as guest blogging if your name is in the blog’s url?).

I wanted to let everyone know what’s happening here in Katutura with 3measures. We’re still busy laying the foundations; lots to be done. I’ve been spending my days in the office every day working on relationships, setting up the website (check it out… www.3measur.es), getting to know our sister ministries, doing survey work, writing lots of emails, doing paperwork for our Namibian bank account, etc. Oh, and getting everything together for our new support system. We have all new options for donations/monthly support (interested? Check that out too… support).

Outside of “office hours” we’re getting involved in Hope Club, a sister ministry’s program for young adults in the neighborhood. This group is great and is filled with 20 & 30-somethings who are trying to live out their faith in a difficult place. We’ll be helping out for awhile to serve a worthy ministry & to build relationships for future discipleship groups. I would really like to get a group going with the men of Hope Club as soon as they’re ready.

We’ll also be starting a discipleship group with some of the older kids from Community Hope School; specifically, with the kids who responded to the Discipleship class I taught over the last couple of years. This includes Steven and Angelika who we baptized in December last year.

As we begin discipleship groups, we’re laying the foundations for our church planting ministry.

We’re also busy working toward our goals for community development. I’ve been working on compiling a list of churches that exist in the area & we’ll be contacting them soon to see how we may be able to work with them in community development. We’re hoping to offer Community Health groups to churches who are interested. This would go a long way toward starting our Community Health Evangelism (CHE) program in Katutura.

So that’s what we’ve been up to at 3measures. Thanks for reading & for everything you do.

Keep all this in your prayers!

David

Critters!!

David said that he would blog about what has been going on on his side of things tomorrow, but I wanted to leave you today with some pictures of the creatures found in our house.
The first one is the flat wall spider, we have may of them, but we have made peace with them as they kill mosquitos and flies. It is just not very nice to be surprised by one. The second in the Red Roman, or demon from the depths of Hades, either name fits in my mind. I wish we could say we have seen one or two, but there have been at least 10-15 in our house in the last few weeks. They range from a few centimeters to more centimeters, but can get up to twelve inches. We saw Reese poking at something the other day, and when we looked it was one of these beauties. Reese was pushing it’s soft body like a button. SHUDDER!!!!

At ten months…

First let me say that the best laid plans sometimes go awry. I really want to do a Sunday post, but the internet issue on the base had really been has really put a damper on my plans! I spend most days at home with the baby while David goes to the office. I desperately miss blogging, and hopefully in the near future it can be part of my life again.

Anyway. I am in the office today, so I am going to try and get some posts up right now. Starting with one on the Reesenator!

Time is passing by much too quickly, Reese is TEN months old now. We are starting to think about his first birthday party, it is just ridiculous how quickly time is passing.
At our last appointment, which was over 5 weeks ago Reese weighed in at 20.9 pounds. He also fits into his 12-18 month clothes! Most people comment on what a big boy he is. He is thriving! Our home is filled with sounds of his giggles.

When he was just over nine months old his first two teeth came out, he still only has those two. His eyes are darkening to a brownish green, I think he has his daddy’s eyes. His hair is growing out to be white blond with red tips. It seems redder is pictures, but it really is more blonde.

Sleep has been awful! I think the furlough really messed us up. Before we left Reese was sleeping up to six hours at night. Now we are lucky to get two hours out of him. At first we thought it was just the jetlag, but it just has not gotten any better. I think he was just too confused by all the traveling around and all the different beds. Now he falls asleep in our bed and stays there for a while, we then move him to the swing when he starts whining. Pray for us, we really would like for him to sleep more. Two night ago he only woke up 8 times, which was a good night for us. I think I would caution other people about traveling with babies before their sleep schedules are set.

Speaking of sleeping, we do have a fairly easy bed time routine. Reese eats at 6:30, bath at 7 and then is nurses himself to sleep by 7:30. He loves to eat. This little boy has never met a food he did not love. He will suck the soft part out of peas and then stick his tongue out with the skin on it. He also still loves bath time. He is getting more squirmy though. Last night he stood up and stepped out of the baby tub. He is so fast these days! He can pull up without an issue and is now taking chances by  letting things go to see if he can stand up by himself. He cruises around the room just fine, and has started to climb stairs.

The best development has been his new best friend. We got a 4 month old puppy from the SPCA a few weeks ago. We named his Sheriff Rick Grimes. Reese and Grimes spend hours together, they pass toys to each other and tickle each other. The other day Reese was cracking up at Grimes. They are just great for each other!