Memories and moving on

Oqaatsut (Red Bay)

The other day Masey’s Facebook feed popped up a memory from August 2013. It was when we were able to take a boat trip to the tiny village of Oqaatsut (Red Bay). We had a great time and it was a blessed gift from a supporting church. First Baptist Church of Ocoee , FL had a penny offering during VBS and raised money for us to take a trip on. It was a great blessing and couldn’t have come at a better time as we were dealing with many pressures in life and ministry. We loved the trip and are ever grateful to First BC of Ocoee for their generosity and thoughtfulness for us.

I was looking back and noticed that I never did a post about that. This was during the time we were praying about our move to DK, and I guess I never got around to it. I know Masey posted things to FB, but I wanted to post some videos here too.

There are 3 videos in all in this playlist. More will be added soon. I actually started the list with the return video, just because it’s my favorite. It’s nothing spectacular, just some cool Arctic ocean footage. If you subscribe to my YouTube channel, you will be able to see when I add more videos.

And speaking of subscribe, I want to invite everyone over to my new blog Getting A Little Hungary and invite you to subscribe to it. I will not be posting very much to Freezin’ For A Reason anymore. I believe I can just transfer all of my subscribers over to the new page, but I didn’t want to force anyone to keep up with us. If you would like to keep up with this new part of our life,please head over to our blog and click the Follow button. This doesn’t sign you up for our prayer letters or updates, it just sends you emails whenever I post new content to Getting A Little Hungary.

Thanks to all of those that have kept up with us here, prayer for us, and encouraged us. Hopefully all will come over to the new site and keep up with the journey. God bless! (^_^)

 

Indepence Day and the Zoo

We had a great time celebrating the 4th of July here in Hungary. It was filled with great food and fellowship! God blessed with great weather and a temp in the 70’s. Though we didn’t shoot any fireworks off, it was still a fabulous time.

And the other day we surprised the kids by taking them to the Debrecen zoo. We really enjoy going to zoos when we were in the USA, but we didn’t know what to expect from a “foreign zoo”. We really liked it! It had a good selection of animals and the price was real cheap too!

You can find a pic collage of our visit on our new blog, www.gettingalittlehungary.com or by clicking here.

 

Approval

We found out Friday that our residence visas have been approved! We should get our cards in this week. To us this is a great blessing and a great relief. Thank you for praying for us about this.

I have started a new site for our life here in Hungary. I just didn’t think Freezin’ For a Reason properly reflected things now. One reason being that we’ve been in the 80’s lately and I sure don’t feel like I’m freezing! The new site is called Getting A Little Hungary. You can click on the name and it will take you to the new site (opens in a new window). It’s still a work in progress but it’s slowly coming together.

For a while longer I will parallel post between the two site, but will eventually shift my main focus to the new site. I don’t plan on shutting this site down and will continue to post other things on here. For those that receive email updates from this site I will try to migrate your email subscriptions over to Getting A Little Hungary soon.

Please keep praying for us about our pallet we shipped from the US. It arrived in Hungary 3 weeks ago but we still haven’t been able to get it from customs. I think we finally have them satisfied will all the documents sent and deposits paid. Lord willing we will be getting it this week. But please keep praying for us about this.

Thank you to those that have prayed for us, supported us, encouraged us, and helped us over the years. We GREATLY appreciate it. God bless you as you seek to serve Him!

June 2016 Update

I hope things are going good in your part of the world. We are doing good here in Hungary. I wanted to send out a short update and prayer requests. We have been staying plenty busy here. From getting to help around the church in Debrecen, preaching, teaching, dealing with Customs concerning our pallet, studying the language, meeting people, visiting the hospital, switching utilities into our name, and all that goes with settling into a new country.

We got everything turned in to Immigration in May for our residence and work visas. I spoke with them a week or so later was told they will have a decision made by this Wednesday, June 15th. Please pray for God’s will to be done concerning our paperwork. I don’t know of any reason we would be denied, but I don’t want to take the approval for granted. So please pray that, if God is willing, we would receive the approval to continue living and ministering here in Hungary. I’m not sure if they will contact me Wednesday, but they did say if I got approved I would receive everything in the mail the next week.

I have been holding back on sending a prayer letter until after we get an answer from Immigration, but I do ask you to pray for us as we wait. Also please pray that our pallet will be cleared through Customs this week. We have been sending in various documents for 2 weeks now and hopefully have satisfied all the needed requirements. We are eager to finally pick it up and unpack!

So far we have enjoyed our time here and look forward to serving the Lord for long time in Hungary! Thank you for praying for us, supporting us, and being a blessing to us!

Getting settled

Thank you for those that have been praying for us. We arrived safely in Hungary April 18th, late in the night. Our trip wasn’t without problems, but God blessed and brought us through them all. We are getting settled into our apartment. We have the internet turned on, so that’s a help in staying in touch with family and friends.  We are eager to get back into a routine again. The kids are slowly adjusting back in to their homeschool schedule and all of us are adjusting to the 7 hour time difference.

Once again, thank you to those who have been praying. There is still much to pray about though. We have a pallet of good leaving the USA at the end of this month, please pray that it ships safely. We also have a mini container still in Denmark that we need to get shipped over here, as well as immigration paperwork to finish. Thank you for all the prayers for our family. God has certainly blessed and helped out this little band of missionaries. God bless!