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4/2009 - KTM, Nepal - Easter afternoon we took some family pictures.
Hello dear friends. It has been awhile.

The long 10 week term 3 for this school year is behind us, taxes are done, and Ryan's computer is finally working again! Advanced level students have submitted their projects and now have only to prepare for their exams. The last 2 weeks have been an opportunity to catch up with lots of things left undone, and this update is one of those things.

4/2009 - KTM, Nepal - Elijah is not taking these pictures very seriously.


As was mentioned before, since the beginning of the year we've been running a marathon of day after day school. Chandra spending two hours a day assisting the coordinator, and Ryan working full time providing support, maintenance, teaching, as well as making our rounds and meetings with youth group and Bible studies. Your support is making all of this possible.

February was the month that the weather got warmer. The cold of the previous 2 months is not missed. Though now it is getting warmer and if we don't get more significant rains than we have so far our power schedule will not improve much, which means no fans. We hope our power schedule improves!


4/2009 - KTM, Nepal - You can dress 'em up but...
March was a month of birthdays, Elijah, Alicia, and Ryan all celebrated another year in March which was shared with many friends and colleagues. Under the guise of a party for Alicia & Elijah many of our friends came to help make the party fun for the kids and made it fun for us at the same time. We discovered that a young American couple whose friendship we've really enjoyed are now expecting their 3rd child! Please pray for them, as she has not been feeling well at all. Dysentery on top of pregnancy all with their son sick too. There are many very difficult obstacles for people serving the Lord here.

3/2009 - KTM, Nepal - Lijah hitting the birtday pinata...
Health is one of the most blatant of them. Several other "couple friends" are expecting as well. One of them have already headed back to the UK, planning to return term 2 next year. Since he is the other IT teacher Ryan will be teaching all of the classes term one. That is a challenge. The other couple plan to leave in June, soon after us. By the end of the year there will be lots of new babies wiggling around here, and the international playgroup Chandra organizes will have a new supply of troops.

It is true! We will be visiting the states in June and July. Our tickets just got confirmed and the price is a blessing. Praise God! Most of June

4/2009 - KTM, Nepal - Annual Easter Nepali Christian march. Thousands marched to the center of Kathmandu and other cities around Nepal in celebration of the resurrection! Jivan joonda means "Life Fellowship", this is the local Nepali fellowship we are involved in.
we'll be in Colorado and most of July we'll be in Maryland. If any of you would like to feed us, or just hang out, let us know. We have quite a bit of time allocated for friends and family and would love to catch up. Just please plan to tell us what is going on in your lives, as we're really excited to hear about the last 2 years.


2/2009 - KTM, Nepal - Ryan playing chess with Matt. Matt and his wife Liz have become good friends and plan to work in Nepal for years to come. That is after they get back from New Zealand with their new baby in a few months!
The process of visiting will mean the work of closing up our place here. We will have someone living here while we're gone but will also need to store away all of our valuables, which is thankfully just a few things. We could use prayer about the process, that we get everything in order and don't forget anything.


3/2009 - KTM, Nepal - Alica the tiger. We had lots of friends come for the birthday party!
The future is a mystery. We have some decisions to make concerning how our time will be divided between family, work, and personal ministry. We also need prayer about that. There are many opportunities that come our way to do some really neat things, but so often we have to say no without even considering them for simple lack of time. It is obvious that no is a common part of a godly vocabulary, it's just not clear when. So we are sorting through our opportunities, the specifics of the season ahead, and seeking God for guidance. Please pray that God will be much louder and clearer than our other motivations.

Last but not least we have a big change in how our finances are handled from now on. We are partnering with ICTA (about the Jamesons @ www.icta.net), which is the organization Ryan first moved to Colorado to work for.

1/2009 - KTM, Nepal - Rooftop youth worship. Awesome times!
We have close relationships with the team there in Colorado Springs.

Our visions and areas of expertise are very compatible to say the least. We are honored and privileged to be yoked with them. If you would like to know more about their ministry, please visit their website: www.icta.net.

The giving information on this site has been changed accordingly. If you are willing to help us with the move and are willing to patiently endure some trial and error, please try to migrate your giving over to one of the methods described below: Donate.

If you don't need another change just now, relax and we'll let you know when we are sure everything works. If you give by check you can continue to mail it to Ryan's mom at the Maryland address, only now make it out to ICTA, and put "KTM Project" in the memo field.


4/2009 - KTM, Nepal - More pictures of the march, or as one friend called it the Long Easter Trek!
Thank you so much for your faithfulness to us. The family of God is truly a family and in our lives

2/2009 - KTM, Nepal - Random monkey picture. Who doesn't like monkeys? ... More people than you'd think!
we have seldom experienced it so clearly as these last 2 years of being faithfully caught month after month in this trust fall life we are learning to live. We have been stretched and pulled in so many ways, from Chandra giving birth in a 3rd world hospital hallway, to Ryan heading off to remote parts of the Country while bearing the responsibility for a class of students. In between are the smaller challenges that just seem to keep coming. God is faithful, we know He put us here, and just now, recollecting, even those very hard things have been for good reason. Again, thank you so much for making this possible. We appreciate you!

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What we are doing? - Serving as teachers at a "study center" in Kathmandu. Learning to speak Nepali and understand the Nepalese culture. Building relationships with locals.

How can you help? - By contributing your love, prayers, and financial support if you are able.


 
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God is willing, and in the spring of 2007, our family relocated indefinitely to Kathmandu, Nepal. There we serve at a school and have begun to learn the language and culture of a country in transition.

Nepal's transition is not just political, it is spiritual as well. The vast majority of the country, 95%+ depending on who you ask, is a combination of Hindu and Buddhist. The last 50 years have seen tremendous progress in this Country and we want to continue that work.

The school we spoke of earlier needs our help. Ryan serves teaching IT. Chandra is helping as the primary secretary, but with the kids so young it will not be full time for her.

So here is where you come in. The spiritual climate in the whole region wears heavily on Christians here. One couple we met, whose kids graduated from the school, have been there for over 15 years. They have encountered a lot of challenges, but are still going strong. We believe with them that it takes a foundation of spiritual support to free us to succeed. It is a principle God put in place, that we are truly a body. It is our hope that every one of you will pray for us as often as possible in the years and hopefully decades to come.

Matthew 6:21 - "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."


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The school cannot pay us to work. Most of the students come from missionary families that survive themselves on the shoulders of their supporters. So we are asking for you to consider allocating some of your treasure to support us. We realize many of you are not in such a position, for you we ask that you pray for us as though you had given us your treasures. If you do support us financially, please pray for us like you have given all you have. Sincere spiritual support is the key to long term missionaries and their success. It is only in believing the Matthew 6:21 (above) and 1 Corinthians 12:12 (the body of Christ) principles that I can rebuke my own pride and ask you to be our partners. Please allow us to climb on your shoulders and go to Nepal to contribute our talents to the move of God there.

The students are nearly all children of nearby ministers involved in medicine, church planting, education, and more. We consider it an honor to help empower these families to stay longer and do more. It will take us years to learn the culture well enough to even begin to communicate well with the locals. So we consider it a double blessing to be in a position to be fruitful as soon as our feet hit the ground. We love the people of Nepal, and we have every intention of being part of local ministry to nationals. It's just great that we can step into this support role immediately. Praise the Lord.

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Psalm 50:10 - "...for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills."


We believe the principle of Psalm 50:10. God owns everything. He can and will provide for us. We just hope to some degree that you, our brothers and sisters, will be the vessels He uses. In that way we will be part of the vine, exactly where God wants us. Leaning on God and you to achieve things we could never do alone.

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