This is one of those months where I’m scrolling through Google Photos trying to figure out what story to tell. With school underway our family has mostly been in the routines that the school year brings. Ezekiel is in chess club and has decided to be the school’s first Yell Leader. Caleb is taking horseback riding lessons and excelling at school. Amy works at a public behavior school as a para and has daily adventure stories, but is also standing out in the way that she loves the kids. Justin is visiting churches, communicating with more churches about potential visits, and making new strides with Salesforce programming and architecture.
Amy has had some pretty incredible encounters lately with Muslim women at work and in her other day to day errands. She has been communicating and building friendships with a few other moms. We’ve also been praying about some special relationships with kids from our school. One family in particular has some hard circumstances and just happens to have kids in class with both of ours. The Lord has even opened doors with that family in the way He brought those children to our community group’s Angel Tree kids.
On the nerdy side, Justin has basically finished the debugging process on a complicated API pull for importing gift data into our Salesforce org. He also managed to design some useful screen flows that will help streamline the day to day communication tasks that our team needs to accomplish. Now he is working on figuring out how to clean up some data from 2700 contacts and get all of the useful information into the same place (the right record fields) so that the screen flow project will actually work. He has also been providing some technical support for remote teammates who have had some challenges. Once the reports and activity task records are cleaned up and actually useful, this project that has been in the making for quite some time will be ready to launch.
Ezekiel had his 11th birthday. We are moving in a few weeks to a new place that will save us 2-3 hours a day in driving time, and make life a lot less hectic because of that. We are packing for that move, managing homework and field trips and practices and the day to day American family busyness stuff. Justin also does occasional side jobs for people who need handyman help to make up some of what we lack in the support-raising department.
Thank you for praying, writing, giving and keeping up. Being in support-based ministry often feels boring, but is also necessary and the Lord has been working greatly in our family, church, school and daily relationships. If you want a visit from Justin at your church, please reach out!
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