Max Returns to KY

Nee & Max at the Dead Sea before hiking with several other families.

Max finishes his online high school and returns to Kentucky at the end of this month. He will live with my mom in my hometown of Irvine, working at a restaurant for 3 months. Mom will help him to get his required 60 supervised driving hours to get his license. Pray for her! Long-term, Max wants to enlist in the military. The structure would be good for him. We are proud that he wants to serve his country and develop some skills that will benefit him personally. Max is a loyal friend, a well-loved sibling, and thinks a lot about the welfare of others. Please pray for him as he embarks on several transitions over the next 6 months.

Christmas was great, even though we missed our 3 oldest kids in Kentucky. We attended 2 Christmas gatherings, watched older Star Wars movies, and took cookies to families of the kids who are bullies in the park beside our home. They seemed surprised!

Please also pray for residency permission for us and several other families with the Jordan Baptist Convention. The process has become somewhat complicated.

JETS Students

Petra & Heidi have so many opportunities to serve families here by babysitting.

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Merry Christmas! In a few days, I will attend a Christmas gathering at JETS (Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary). I go there every few months to develop relationships with students and discuss with them how we can best promote biblical parenting in their countries, primarily Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Sudan. Since we lived in Sudan for 2 years and I understand their dialect more, I find myself spending most of my time with the Sudanese students. Here are a few of the guys that you can pray for...

1) A from Sudan- A first-year student who is missing his parents and siblings in Khartoum but it is getting better.

2) M from Egypt- A graduate who was recently and suddenly given the responsibility of overseeing the library of the seminary.

3) M&B from Iraq- Refugee brothers who graduated & recently resettled in the West. 

4) Y from Jordan- A recently married graduate who has taken on more ministry responsibilities.

5) M from Egypt- A married student who has been unable to find work for the past 3 months.

6) J from Sudan- A graduate who has returned to Khartoum to teach at an evangelical school.