Monday, August 15, 2016

We Moved.... Again


We bought a house! Well, actually it is an apartment, 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, on the 3rd floor in a neighborhood centrally located to everything in Amman. We liked living on the outskirts of town in a small community but feel it will be better for both our family and our ministry to be in town. The best thing about our apartment is that it is beside a park with a soccer field, basketball court, playground, etc. It will be a great place to meet families and for our kids to learn more Arabic.

I still have yet to meet with the Egyptian couple I mentioned in last month's e-newsletter. The wife just sent me her evaluation a few days ago. There are a few other couples I hope to meet with soon also. I have been working on an online tool for training in biblical parenting. You can see the beta version here and maybe use your browser to translate it to English. Lord willing, the site will have both the texts and audio recordings of both Shepherding A Child's Heart and The Faithful Parent in Arabic. We may add some video lessons such as these later. After each chapter, the user must submit answers to two questions: What did you learn from this chapter? How will you apply it to your parenting? These answers are automatically emailed to the user's spouse and vice versa for healthy accountability. I have hired an older Jordanian believer with lots of ministry experience to help me finalize the online tool and begin using it in conjunction with home/church visits. This brother is also Max and my language tutor. If anyone would like to learn Arabic, even via video chat, I highly recommend him. Please pray that Kamal and I would be able to discern how we can best serve born-again parents here.

Anna and Samuel have settled back into Kentucky well. Anna got her driver's permit and Samuel got stitches after taking an elbow to the eye playing basketball. Kendra is enjoying being a professional photographer. See her work here.