Things happen too quickly for me to update on everything. Some bullet points from recent weeks:
- Yesterday, 11/5 – Was “First Day”, a monthly “Sabbath” that MAF practices globally. We celebrated worship, prayer, and a message from Nampa with our MAF team at the hangar. Conducted mostly in Indonesian, partly in English (for the four of us whose Indonesian equal to that of a two-year-old’s)
- We also celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary with everyone! With cake and fun photos. It was awesome. Wow, where God has taken us over the past 10 years of our life together… and now to Tarakan, Indonesia. So grateful.
- 11/5 evening we had a team dinner at a restaurant and an English Bible study. Since arriving we’ve met only four families whose native language is English – all our expat team members (not including the family from the Netherlands, whose English is very good, but not their native language, and us, whose English is also pretty good)
- At our team dinner a brief, sudden, forceful quake shook the building in a quick burst. We all ran outside. No one was hurt. It doesn’t appear that any structures were damaged nor have I heard any reports of injuries. Things fell off shelves and such, but that seems to be the extent of it. A shallow, 4.8 magnitude earthquake about 13km away.
