Our update letter!

OUR APOLOGIES!
We are so sorry! We have not communicated with you, our dear supporters, in such a long time. While there has been a lot going on, we feel bad that we have not been consistent in sharing with you all what God has been doing. In effort to keep this letter shorter then our last one =), we have a brief summary below. Please feel free to call us or ask us for more details.

OH BABY!

Heike is 25 weeks pregnant with a baby boy. She was very sick for at least 4.5 months, and pretty much lived on the couch with ginger ale as her dearest companion. Thankfully the past couple months have been better, and although she hasn’t felt wonderful, she is doing much better. We are very excited and looking forward to a new addition to our family in August.

MOVING AGAIN
We need to be out of the house we are in by the end of June, so Heike has been slowly packing up the house. Please PRAY with us as we search for somewhere to live.

NEW JOB
Doug started a job with the census as a supervisor a few months ago. He is enjoying the challenge of leading a crew of enumerators (the people who go door to door and ask you how many people live in your house). Even though Doug ends up working 50-60 hours a week, which limits our time together, this job is such an answer to prayer financially and we are thankful for the income it provides. Working with the census is temporary, however, and not guaranteed past July, so we would appreciate prayer in regards to where Doug should work next.

GERMANY/SUPPORT RAISING
Our new estimated departure month is January. We long to be in Germany in ministry with kids, but God is apparently not in a hurry! We are slowly making progress on our deficit with Cadence and truly appreciate your support in that area. We did speak at a church in SC a month ago, which went well. We are still planning to visit many of you, we are just not sure how to plan with a baby on the way. God has been teaching us a lot this past year and we are looking forward to seeing what He has in store for us!

We love you!

Our new cheap form of transportation! (Don’t worry, Heike isn’t riding it anymore)

PRAISE
- Our baby boy!
- God’s provision for us through a new job for Doug as well as other random checks which got us through a tough couple of months.
- Our Discovery Group

Our church “Discovery Group.” We meet three times a month, and these people have become family to us!

PRAYER
- Heike and baby’s health and wisdom as we prepare to be parents
- House to live in that we can afford
- Support situation: We feel like we are both constantly battling exhaustion in day-to-day life which makes it hard to focus on anything else.
- Finances after Doug’s job ends
- Heike’s dad is in town for a month, as her brother just got married last weekend. She had some really good times with her family.