Tuesday, June 22, 2010

In America


After these few months we are back in America again!!

We have been as the Swazi's say "Moving Up and Down" since we arrived last Thursday. We are visiting family for the next few weeks as we pray about the future.

Our arrival back into the US is bittersweet but we are confident that those that we have worked with in Swaziland are continuing to search out the Lord and to courageously give our Lords love to those in Swaziland.

We will post more in the coming days but wanted to give this much delayed update to let you know where we are and praise God for what he has done.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Answers to Prayer




As our time in Swaziland is winding down (six days left!!), we are thanking God for the many, many prayers he has answered during this year. At the top of the list is the answered prayer for people to follow us here in Swaziland.

Andy and Amy Curry, the new on-site coordinators for the Swaziland Partnership, have been in country with us for the last three weeks. They graduated from Southern Nazarene University and have been friends with Brent since college. Andy grew up in Swaziland while his parents spent four years here as missionaries. Not only have they been a huge help to us during the last crazy weeks, but we are excited to see the gifts and passions they bring to this position and to Swaziland. We continue to celebrate God's faithfulness and His perfect timing.

They have developed their own blog to chronicle their time in Swaziland, and we invite all of our followers to follow them as they learn and write about their time here. We know that many of you who have been praying with us, have in fact been praying for them, since we asked people to pray for those who would follow us.

You can follow their Swaziland adventures at: CurryExcursion.blogspot.com

Three Teams in Three Weeks


This last month has been a whirlwind of activity. In three weeks we helped to host and lead 3 teams totaling 65 people in all! There was a team of Southern Nazarene University students and three of SNU's administration; a class from Eastern Nazarene College; and a combined team from Lenexa Central Church of the Nazarene and MidAMerican Nazarene University students. In addition, we also were happy to have Michaele's Dad as a part of these groups and Andy and Amy Curry, who will be taking over as the new on-site coordinators for the Swaziland Partnerhsip.

It's true that we are tired, but God blessed us richly with 65 wonderful people, no accidents or serious illnesses, successful projects, and meaningful relationships with the Swazis we worked with. Once again we feel blessed to be in the connecting role, enabling the relationships and interactions that change lives on both sides of the ocean. As time permits, we will try to get a more complete update of what these teams accomplished while they were here.

Thank you to all who have prayed for us in these busy weeks!