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As most of you will know Paul is Russian German which means that it is fairly common to build your own home. This type of life never appealed to Paul and it kind of put him off ever having his own home. Our home is on campus, we have an apartment which we are so thankful to God for. However recently God has been placing a huge burden on our hearts and because of what we wrote above we hugely believe it’s from God as it’s a big turn of thinking for us. We have a burden for North Cotes to have more staff, the issue is we don’t have any free apartments on site, there are a few main apartments for staff on site and we are taking one of those spaces. Sometimes there are staff members that will come for a few years at a time and these apartments are best fit for these types of commitments. Now we know we are here for the foreseeable future we are burdened with the idea of buying a house. Which sounds unbelievably silly as missionaries but we know that with God all things are possible. We wanted to be open with our supporters about this burden and that you would pray with us that God would make it abundantly clear if this is the path he has for us. Deutsche Wie die meisten von Ihnen wissen, ist Paul Russlanddeutscher, was bedeutet, dass es ziemlich üblich ist, ein eigenes Haus zu bauen. Diese Art von Leben hat Paul nie gefallen und es hat ihn irgendwie davon abgehalten, jemals ein eigenes Haus zu haben. Unser Zuhause ist auf dem Campus, wir haben eine Wohnung, für die wir Gott sehr dankbar sind. In letzter Zeit hat Gott uns jedoch eine Last auf das Herz gelegt, und aufgrund dessen, was wir oben geschrieben haben, glauben wir fest daran, dass sie von Gott kommt, denn es ist eine große Umstellung für uns. Das Problem ist, dass wir keine freien Wohnungen auf dem Gelände haben. Es gibt ein paar Wohnungen für Mitarbeiter auf dem Gelände und wir nehmen einen dieser Plätze ein. Manchmal kommen aber Mitarbeiter nur für einige Jahre, und diese Wohnungen eignen sich am besten für diese Art von Verpflichtungen. Jetzt, da wir wissen, dass wir für die absehbare Zukunft hier sind, bewegt sich in uns der Gedanke, ein Haus zu kaufen. Das klingt unglaublich albern für uns als Missionare, aber wir wissen, dass bei Gott alle Dinge möglich sind. Wir wollten mit unseren Unterstützern offen über diese Situation sprechen und euch bitten, mit uns zu beten, dass Gott uns deutlich macht, ob dies der Weg ist, den er für uns vorgesehen hat.
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The new school year has started, almost all of the students have arrived and today we started with student orientation. Last week Paul and I were able to orientate six of our ten volunteers.
Unfortunately, there were some issues with visas as this has been our first year having to do this (thanks Brexit) and we are still awaiting four more volunteers. Tuesday we had a day of orientation of what volunteers life is like here and then from Wednesday to Friday the volunteers went into their own roles and had some training for their upcoming year. Friday evening we had a games evening which we thoroughly enjoyed as we got to know the volunteers a lot more. Then on Saturday we went to a nearby town called Louth and did a scavenger hunt that Nom found online. It was a hot day and there was a lot of walking but we had fun. Last night was our first fellowship group where we told our testimonies and hung out with the volunteers. Please pray as the remaining volunteers will arrive over the next few weeks. |