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Thursday, August 11, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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So the entire clan drove up the hill off a beaten path (last 1 1/2 miles dirt road) for a few days of outdoor camping with all the traditional events. We did it all, campfire, tents, sunshine, hiking, reading, campsongs, sitting under trees, roasting marshmellows, holding babies and talking.
Friday, July 8, 2011
July 2011
Summer has arrived to Cypress-very warm. Tim was able to capture a pic of the Baker Hawk that flies around our park and sometimes lands on our telephone pole.
Last week Bryant and Rachel moved to Fallbrook. We all filled a bucket with our sweat moving boxes and furniture up and down stairs. Our favorite moments of course holding Anabelle and enjoying her. Rachel and Bryant are doing well with parenthood. You can see pics on FB on moving day.
Dace was the first one to notice that the Krauses in Fallbrook have the same apartment number as the Hueftles.
So Dace will start his new job as a Senior Contract Associate on monday...way to go Dace!!!
Kevin and Jeffry have been spending the week here enjoying So Ca. and visiting the cousins. Hopefully they will FB some of their pics for you. Tomorrow they plan to jump off a bridge...will try to capture the moment
All children: you are requested to send me a pic of your daily work for our next blog! Due 7-14
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Blog Poll Results
So the family is split: 4 of you like email updates and 4 of you like blog reports with 1 facebook soul. So that leaves me to do both. Of course I will only do this when I feel in the mood.
Our life update:
Tim is recovering from back injury and bronchitis. Hoping is back will be ready for Bryants big move this weekend. I am finally having a day off after working the last 5 in a row. Hurry up sunshine so I can spin on my bike.
OK: just returned from my bikeride to the lighthouse. When I left the house, the sun was out. As I approached the beach, overcast and no sun. When I arrived at the lighthouse the sun came out. When I looked up, there was a hole in the cloud covering...pretty awesome!
Our life update:
Tim is recovering from back injury and bronchitis. Hoping is back will be ready for Bryants big move this weekend. I am finally having a day off after working the last 5 in a row. Hurry up sunshine so I can spin on my bike.
OK: just returned from my bikeride to the lighthouse. When I left the house, the sun was out. As I approached the beach, overcast and no sun. When I arrived at the lighthouse the sun came out. When I looked up, there was a hole in the cloud covering...pretty awesome!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
June 2011
VACATION:
So maybe you have heard the story of how Brian taught Tim and Char how to cook a pizza on an open fire? Char declared it way too much work for a camping trip. If you have seen the pictures on FB, then you know that Tim kept saying, just a little farther and had Brian, Wendy and Heidi to the top of Vernal Falls for an amazing view and a complete soak. Our little RV smack into the snowbank has us grateful that we didn't smack into the oncoming car.
QUICK UPDATES:
Tim's mom enjoyed the chance to visit with each great grandchild. Giving Annabelle a bottle, eye to eye contact with her and Sianna was a highlight of her visit.
Jerrol is enjoying his new job. Lauren enjoys being a mom and is happy to have a baby that enjoys the car seat now.
Charis and Dace made the frontpage of our little Cypress newspaper. They helped serve a meal with the Church Holy Grill. (same folks that prepared their wedding feast) Dace is still job searching and learning patience.
Bryant and Rachel have found a new home and will move in July 2nd. This will decrease the job commute and the gas bill. Bryant will be promoted to Corporal next month.
Our house is quiet..back to our routine...Tim makes the coffee in the morning and the dinner in the evening. Char watches over the garden. So far 1 quart of berries from our patch.
Work will continue to give us challenges and keep us alert.
All for today......
So maybe you have heard the story of how Brian taught Tim and Char how to cook a pizza on an open fire? Char declared it way too much work for a camping trip. If you have seen the pictures on FB, then you know that Tim kept saying, just a little farther and had Brian, Wendy and Heidi to the top of Vernal Falls for an amazing view and a complete soak. Our little RV smack into the snowbank has us grateful that we didn't smack into the oncoming car.
QUICK UPDATES:
Tim's mom enjoyed the chance to visit with each great grandchild. Giving Annabelle a bottle, eye to eye contact with her and Sianna was a highlight of her visit.
Jerrol is enjoying his new job. Lauren enjoys being a mom and is happy to have a baby that enjoys the car seat now.
Charis and Dace made the frontpage of our little Cypress newspaper. They helped serve a meal with the Church Holy Grill. (same folks that prepared their wedding feast) Dace is still job searching and learning patience.
Bryant and Rachel have found a new home and will move in July 2nd. This will decrease the job commute and the gas bill. Bryant will be promoted to Corporal next month.
Our house is quiet..back to our routine...Tim makes the coffee in the morning and the dinner in the evening. Char watches over the garden. So far 1 quart of berries from our patch.
Work will continue to give us challenges and keep us alert.
All for today......
Thursday, February 25, 2010
My Trip to Costa Rica
Dearest Friends and Family:
Here is my update on my experience in Costa Rica. I’m sure the prayers of my faithful friends assisted the team in staying healthy and safe. My connection to the team was easy and traveling alone manageable. If you have been to my facebook, you have seen the pictures of the ‘fun’ times.
As I reflect the first thing that makes me smile is that 36 team members lived together, worked together and played together well for 2 weeks despite our humanness. I think it’s very hard to quantify what God accomplishes because we see such a small part. We were 3 teams- the children’s workers trained teachers and worked with the children. The construction team completed the ceiling of the celebration center at the camp. The medical team ran the clinics with doctors, nurses, 1 EMT and helpers.
Our team leader gave this report:
Teacher’s trained: 57 Total
Children ministered to in Children’s Ministry: 367 (Orphan Home ministry and clinics)
Medical Clinics: Between 100-110 patients recorded as being seen daily in clinics held (aprox 800)
Paraiso Centro Church: Reported back 25 people accepted Christ. Many more were prayed for and counseled.
Circus Church: Reported back that also about 25 people accepted Christ.
89 people recommitted themselves to Christ. 140 people requested a pastoral visit to there home. David the local missionary reported, “This January was a complete success, the focus was more spiritual than medicine. Katherine and I believe that the human body can not be fully healed, unless there a true encounter with Jesus Christ. In total 201 souls were won for Christ, an outstanding job by all the medical team members who stepped outside the box to minister to patients."
So I will share a few stories. The first is about being flexible- I had many opportunities to practice this. One of the more common tasks was to count pills into a little bag- very time consuming but we had to ration the medications. It seemed like such a simple task but became complicated when trying to locate medications out of a bin or unable to recognize the names of medications because they were in Spanish. After putting the pills or liquid or cream in a bag or bottle, then it was labeled in Spanish. Sometimes our days were longer then planned due too operations or travel distance. Early on in the trip one of the construction workers sliced open his hand. We were so tired after the workday. Another nurse and I assisted our doctor in locating a place (camp kitchen counter) to suture and find the supplies we needed. Then we needed lots of prayer despite our best of care. Our patient was high risk for an infection since he did not keep the dressing dry. I was thrilled to see how well the wound healed without complications.
Oh yes, had the creature comfort test. How about 4 women sharing 1 bath? Or how about the 3 nights in the hotel with no hot water and roaches roamed the floor at night. 1 clinic site was so hot, we melted. One day my lunch disappeared and food ran out at dinner.
I appreciated the gifts of other teammates, enjoyed getting to know them, marveled at the patience of the patients we came to serve, was blessed to worship along side those who spoke a different language (it works to sing in two languages), and God’s special gift to me was letting me listen as teammates talked, being awed by the beautiful country and getting to know Amy. Amy is awaiting her support so she can be a missionary in Costa Rica. While we came to serve, the church people served us lunch and gave us smiles and prayed for us.
I'm very grateful for the experience.
Thanks for reading and sending up your prayers! char
Here is my update on my experience in Costa Rica. I’m sure the prayers of my faithful friends assisted the team in staying healthy and safe. My connection to the team was easy and traveling alone manageable. If you have been to my facebook, you have seen the pictures of the ‘fun’ times.
As I reflect the first thing that makes me smile is that 36 team members lived together, worked together and played together well for 2 weeks despite our humanness. I think it’s very hard to quantify what God accomplishes because we see such a small part. We were 3 teams- the children’s workers trained teachers and worked with the children. The construction team completed the ceiling of the celebration center at the camp. The medical team ran the clinics with doctors, nurses, 1 EMT and helpers.
Our team leader gave this report:
Teacher’s trained: 57 Total
Children ministered to in Children’s Ministry: 367 (Orphan Home ministry and clinics)
Medical Clinics: Between 100-110 patients recorded as being seen daily in clinics held (aprox 800)
Paraiso Centro Church: Reported back 25 people accepted Christ. Many more were prayed for and counseled.
Circus Church: Reported back that also about 25 people accepted Christ.
89 people recommitted themselves to Christ. 140 people requested a pastoral visit to there home. David the local missionary reported, “This January was a complete success, the focus was more spiritual than medicine. Katherine and I believe that the human body can not be fully healed, unless there a true encounter with Jesus Christ. In total 201 souls were won for Christ, an outstanding job by all the medical team members who stepped outside the box to minister to patients."
So I will share a few stories. The first is about being flexible- I had many opportunities to practice this. One of the more common tasks was to count pills into a little bag- very time consuming but we had to ration the medications. It seemed like such a simple task but became complicated when trying to locate medications out of a bin or unable to recognize the names of medications because they were in Spanish. After putting the pills or liquid or cream in a bag or bottle, then it was labeled in Spanish. Sometimes our days were longer then planned due too operations or travel distance. Early on in the trip one of the construction workers sliced open his hand. We were so tired after the workday. Another nurse and I assisted our doctor in locating a place (camp kitchen counter) to suture and find the supplies we needed. Then we needed lots of prayer despite our best of care. Our patient was high risk for an infection since he did not keep the dressing dry. I was thrilled to see how well the wound healed without complications.
Oh yes, had the creature comfort test. How about 4 women sharing 1 bath? Or how about the 3 nights in the hotel with no hot water and roaches roamed the floor at night. 1 clinic site was so hot, we melted. One day my lunch disappeared and food ran out at dinner.
I appreciated the gifts of other teammates, enjoyed getting to know them, marveled at the patience of the patients we came to serve, was blessed to worship along side those who spoke a different language (it works to sing in two languages), and God’s special gift to me was letting me listen as teammates talked, being awed by the beautiful country and getting to know Amy. Amy is awaiting her support so she can be a missionary in Costa Rica. While we came to serve, the church people served us lunch and gave us smiles and prayed for us.
I'm very grateful for the experience.
Thanks for reading and sending up your prayers! char
