Time For a Rest

When we wrote last week, we honestly thought that we had had a challenging week as a family. Turns out, we were wrong, this last week was the challenging one! On our way back from our trip to Texas, we stopped at a hamburger joint (which shall remain nameless) and picked ourselves up a super-sized order of food poisoning! So, Monday night - Wednesday morning were not that pleasant, but the Lord brought us through it okay and we are just fine now! Jake was wonderfully behaved during the time that Tricia and Jeremy were sick and made it really easy on his parents from that standpoint (we also thank the Wiggles, Sesame Street, and PBS for that!). However, none of that can change the wonderful weekend that we had!

Weekend Update

We traveled to Tyler First and Dallas Central churches this weekend and had great services at both. Jeremy went alone to the Tyler service, as Tricia lost her voice on Saturday night and wasn't feeling the best after a nine hour car ride. However, getting some Sabbath rest proved very helpful for her and she was able to get some words out for the evening service at Dallas Central. As usual, we met a lot of wonderful people and learned of some other interesting things in common with those churches. Pastor Ketcham from Tyler First turned to be a friend of the Zurchers from Kokomo, while Pastor White from Dallas Central is a KU grad, just like like Jeremy will be in about two months!

We also had a great time visiting with the Seal family (Tricia's sister Traci & her family), and Jake is still talking about wanting to go back to Texas to see his cousins! It was a great time to spend with family as well as get to do some deputation visits!

Daily Life

Ours was a low-key week, just trying to get rested and back on track for this weekend. Jeremy will be traveling alone to Lebanon, IN this weekend, as the family needs a bit of a break from traveling. Jeremy will also get the chance to visit with some high school friends, as Kokomo is close by and his ten year high school reunion is this weekend!

Praises and Prayer Requests

We praise God for bringing us through our sickness with no complications, doctor visits, etc.! We also are thanksful for the opportunities that these deputation services give us to get the word out about Nazarene World Mission, which is obviously one of our passions! It has also been great to be able to align deputation services with where we have family and friends that we can visit before we leave the country. God really has worked out some great things for us!

Here are some ways that you can pray for us this week:

- Safe travels for Jeremy to, in, and from Indiana
- A safe and restful stay in the KC area for Tricia and Jake
- God's continued guidance as to how we might draw closer to him and his will for our lives

Thank you for your prayers and please also pray for the work of the church in Africa. We can't say enough how important your prayer support is for Nazarenes across the globe.

Until next week,

Jeremy, Tricia & Jake