Support Deadline
Posted in family news by Tim on August 21st, 2010 at 1:59 pm.
As anyone who has been following our newsletters probably knows, we have been hoping to start French language school in January. Although this doesn’t sound like the best time of year to move to Quebec, there are a couple of reasons why we want to start this winter. The most obvious reason is that it will get us to the field much faster.
MAF requires that missionaries be 100% supported before we leave for our assignment. For some this means that whenever they reach full support they fly to their assigned country and begin language school. In our case we are not attending language school in country. Instead we will be attending Parole de Vie language school in Quebec which only starts classes in January and August. Currently we have raised 48% of our support and on November first MAF will decide if we should begin the process of enrollment and applying for student visas.
If you are someone who is interested in partnering with us through either a one time gift or ongoing financial support we would love to hear from you and answer any questions that you might have.
We will also be giving a presentation about our work with MAF and the ministry of MAF around the world, at Flying M Coffee Garage in downtown Nampa on the 16th and 20th of September. Both events start at 6:30 and will be in the upstairs conference room. These events will be the same so there is no need to attend both of them. If you are interested in attending please RSVP by emailing me at tschandorff@maf.org.
Thank you for your continued prayers and support as we reach this critical deadline in our journey with Mission Aviation Fellowship.
Tim
Our days at the beach
Posted in family news by Tim on August 6th, 2010 at 2:27 pm.
After about 6 months of support raising and the birth of our second child we took a week off to spend time with family on the Oregon Coast. We were really excited to spend time with Tim’s grandmother and aunt and uncle from Kansas. On Sunday morning we piled in
the car and headed for Neskowin Oregon just North of Lincoln City. We had visited Neskowin before when Liz was pregnant with Jacob and our niece Fiona was only about 6 months old. The kids who remembered the previous trip were really excited to see it again and everyone was looking forward to some time away from the Idaho heat.
Of course traveling with a 4 week old is no small endeavor. We saw many little towns between Nampa and the coast that we never had need to stop in on previous trips. It turns out that Arlington, Oregon has a great public park just off Interstate 84. The trip that Google maps says should take about 9 hours took closer to 12 and a half with feeding stops and chances for Ben to get out of the car seat. We found that a 4 week old that does not want to be in the car anymore can be very persuasive in getting you to stop. But we were in no hurry and made it to the coast in plenty of time.
Most of the week the kids played in the freezing cold water of the Pacific while the adults tried as hard as possible to stay dry and still
close enough to supervise. Sand castles were built and of course there was great kite flying weather as only the Pacific Northwest can deliver.
We spend an afternoon visiting the Tillamook Cheese Factory where the kids saw how the cheese is processed and packaged.
In all it was a great time spent with family and a nice break from support raising with MAF.
If you would like to see some photos please feel free to visit the photo gallery.
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