Short Term Missionary

Some of you that read our blog may already know that this summer, or winter for us, Matthew Paisley is here in Namibia working with us in our ministry. Matthew got here on May 31st and is living with us and working along side Brian and the youth.

The youth have really enjoyed his being here and it is making a huge impression on the youth as well. Matthew will soon be preparing and leading some of the Bible studies in the girls hostel, my high school Bible study ministry as well as our teaching in the park on Saturdays. So please pray for him as God has laid this opportunity before him this summer.

Matthew is also praying about entering seminary once he is finished with his undergraduate at NCSU in Raleigh, NC.

One of the girls here had fun giving him a Namibia hair style this past week and we have enjoyed teaching the kids in the location area the fun game of Ultimate Frisbee.

Attached are a few pictures of Matt, his new hair looks and our friends in the soccer park in the location area here in Grootfontein. Also, my bread baking is getting better. I made some more sour dough bread today and boy does it smell and taste good.

"Matthews Namibia style corn row hair.  Suama, one of the girls in my youth group, worked on this for a few hours the other day as we watched South Africa and Mexico play in the World Cup opening game."




"As I posted a few weeks ago, I have taken on bread baking.  This is my batch of sour dough bread getting ready to hit the oven."

"This is what Matt's hair looked like after taking the corn rows out."

"These are some of the youth that we were playing Ultimate Frisbee with at the location soccer field.  Notice that the soccer field is all dirt! Makes for a lot of fun sliding and some good strawberries on the knees when you fall, but we all had a great time.  We had many people watching and trying to figure out what we were doing.  Many laughing at us in good fun. Cameron made a friend as well, as you can see them in the bottom right of the picture."

"This is what my bread looked like after baking.  Boy was it good!"

Back to Work!

Wow, it has been a few weeks since I have given an update on things here in Namibia, and I feel bad for that. Two weeks ago Kristen's brother and his wife came over to spend a week with us. It was a great time and great to have some familiar faces, and especially family, with us.

We were able to show them around town, and show them where we minister at here in Namibia. We also got to take them to Etosha Game Reserve. This was a lot of fun. For the first time in our three visits we were able to get up close to elephants. They were all over the place. We even got as close as 25 feet from a male eating from a tree next to the path. This is quite rare, but it was great to see. And no charges at us this time as the male was all by himself and seemed more interested in his food than he was of us.

We then took them back to the airport to see them off. It was sad, but we were glad they came for the time they did. We then stayed in the Capital of Windhoek for a week as we waited for one of my youth from back in the states to come over.

Matthew Paisley arrived May 30th, but his bags did not. So we stayed an extra night to get those, which was good. The poor guy had not slept in over 24 hours and needed the rest. We then got up the next day and made the long trip back home. Matt is doing well and adjusting to the weather, time and culture. The youth here are really excited that he is here and so I am. It will be good to have him assisting me with the youth and sharing some of his experiences with them on how life is back in the US as a christian.

That then leads us to the "back to work" part of the update. The kids here have been on a school holiday for the past 5 weeks, which means almost all of my youth were gone north to the villages. I really enjoyed the slower pace for those five weeks and got to spend a lot of time with the Lord, and with my family. Now the kids are back and this past week we got things back into full swing. The kids were excited to see me and I was really excited to see them as well.

So that is the update for the last three weeks. Please keep our family in your prayers as we continue to minister here in Namibia with the youth and seek God's daily guidance on how to best minister to and with them for the glory of God alone!

God Bless!