September 2007
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September Update
Posted by The Kummers on 19 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
September Update
Posted on 19 Sep 2007
Like us, I’m sure you are amazed that summer is over and the fall season is upon us. Nine weeks of our summer were spent in the USA on Home Ministry Assignment. One of our goals was to spend time with family, supporting churches, and friends in the Pennsylvania – New Jersey area. We also met with our mission leaders at CrossWorld. We also worked into our schedule some needed medical and dental attention. Bob also completed a sound-proofing project on a couple of offices at the church. Other highlights of our summer were: a family vacation for a week “down the shore” in NJ, Sue’s nephew Garrett’s wedding in Indiana, and a few days in VA to be with Sue’s Dad and family. We ended our summer by taking our daughter Alison to Taylor University in Indiana to begin her first year of college. We thank God for His traveling mercies, for the opportunity to spend time with many of our dear friends and family, and for the way that He provided for us in every way; a great car, and wonderful folks with comfortable guest rooms. We would have liked to visit with more friends and family, some in the Midwest and Washington State but our short stay was a limiting factor. We will try to visit with you whom we have missed the next time we are home for HMA.
We are back in Germany now almost three weeks. It is good to be in our own apartment and into a scheduled routine of work and school activities at the Black Forest Academy. We arrived the day before school started so it was hard getting back into the swing of things. But despite the fatigue of travel and jet lag, it was exciting to begin meeting the many new staff and the ninety NEW students who joined our BFA family this year, giving us a total of 350 students from 49 different countries! Preparations for these students were ongoing throughout the busy summer here with renovation work being done on dormitories, classrooms, and faculty rooms. When we left for the summer there was a dire need for three English teachers and two music teachers. The Lord provided indeed some very talented and gifted teachers and filled other positions needed within our staff as well.
350 students from 49 different countries!
Our Family? Hannah has now started off her Jr year of High School being voted as captain of the JV Volleyball team. Marshall is now on the main campus as a Middle Schooler in the 6th grade. He is happy to welcome new friends to his class and to be playing drums with the middle school chapel band. He continues with piano lessons and the local jr. accordian orchestra as well. We’ve been talking (”skype”-ing) with Alison out at Taylor who is enjoying her classes and making new friends. Although still an undeclared major, she is pursuing studies in vocal music and Christian Education with the thought of going into ministry.
Sue and I are taking a German class after school and have also joined the junior class as ‘class sponsors’. This means helping with their fundraisers and traveling with them on class trips. It also means getting to work with and know the students in this class much more closely. I am still working full-time on the finishing touches of the major renovation to the school building. Sue is tutoring everyday, still leading her girls’ discipleship group, helping out with the school play, and we are back into the routine of substituting for dorm parents on their days off in a high school girl’s dorm on Mondays and for a co-ed middle school dorm one weekend a month.Prayer Requests:
Thank you for your prayers and for supporting our ministry with CrossWorld at the Black Forest Academy!
Pray for us:
- This week is “SPIRITUAL EMPHASIS WEEK”. There will be chapel every day with a special guest speaker and music. The goal is to minister to the spiritual needs of our students early in the school year. Pray for those leading these chapels, the individual students, and the effect this week could have on the student body as a whole for Christ.
- Pray for safe travel for the volleyball and tennis teams as they travel to play other teams on USA military bases and other international schools. Pray for their witness for Christ as they play and interact with opposing team members and coaches.
- Pray for a year of interpersonal and spiritual unity amongst our staff.
- Please pray that Alison will be able to make it home for Christmas. We thought we had enough frequent flyer points to get her here but we don’t.
- Pray for the teens, particuliarly the new students, who may struggle with home-sickness this month. Pray for their parents as they minister in hard places where their kids can’t be with them.
“We love you; study hard; we’ll be in touch; see you for Christmas!”
Thank you for your prayers and for supporting our ministry with CrossWorld at the Black Forest Academy!