June 5 blog update

There have continued to be several more medical issues, the most recent of which is little Vanessa who broke her arm yesterday evening following a fall off the merry-go-round, Juliet who has a kidney infection, and Maria who has such a bad case of lice that her head is covered in giant sores and without any searching, you can see them crawling all over her head. It is hard to imagine what they did here before Jessie arrived since she is kept so busy monitoring patients, putting ice packs on bumps and bruises and dishing out medical advice. We have also been indebted to my buddy Max Moore who hooked me up with a first class combat first aid kit before I got out of the Marine Corps. We have used everything from my IV fluids, to ace bandages, alcohol swabs, medicines and now even little Vanessa is proudly walking around with her tiny arm in my olive drab cravat tied up as a sling.

My work at the office may not be as exciting as patching up little girls and dispensing kisses to boo-boos, but it is just as needed here. Right now in addition to my normal translating and editing work, I am in the middle of implementing a whole new system of tracking all the current reporting needs, potential/future reporting needs, and reorganizing all the digital and physical files to enable us to adequately provide the needed information to the organization’s donors when they need it. It is neat to see how God is using my experience I gained in the international reporting office at Campus Crusade for Christ to help CDA grow in this area.

On a more personal level, Jessie and I are doing well in our marriage, we are beginning to have to deal with Isabella’s will and temper (yes, I know the grandparents won’t believe us but it’s true), and we are struggling to figure out how we can effectively reprimand/encourage/point kids to Jesus with only our basic Spanish skills. Please continue to pray for us as a couple, a family and as part of the CDA team.

I also just finished reading a great book our good friend Tim Doozan sent us, “Don’t Waste Your Life” by John Piper about living our lives with eternity and Christ in mind. I whole-heartedly recommend it to all of you, but I’ll save my thoughts on it for another day.