Celebrating Birth!

Clara's body language here describes how we feel. Great to be out of the woods and in the clear. Thank God!

Clara Jem Bergevin was born October 8, at 4:45pm in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She was 5 pounds and 19 inches. Mom and baby are both doing great. We thank God they both made it through a breach birth without surgery or serious incident. Thanks to those who prayed to help bring this blessing about. Relieved and grateful, The Bergevins

Clara Jem Bergevin is Here!

Lydia and Clara

Then They Were Four

Packing to Move

Renee spent a good part of the summer packing boxes for our move this fall. It's all pretty much ready.

Here it looks like Maggie and Lydia have Johanna packed in a trunk for the journey. Not that she appears to mind...

Night Work

Night fell on unfinished work, so the guys hooked up a light to try to finish this garage wall before calling it quits.

They got it done, then everyone inside the tent behind for dinner and much needed and enjoyed eats and sleep.

Warm Floor

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Here's a picture of the heating we put in all the floors of our house. After the thermal layer, this wire that gets warm when connected to electricity, then concrete is layed over, and in places tile over that. Thanks to many generous contributions, the price of the floor was easily covered. Thanks to God, we can expect to be nice and warm this winter.

Marshmallow Roast

Well, I think this September 1st photo captures are first and last marshmallow roast of the summer for us. Maggie and Lydia got to learn how to brown their own, and of course enjoyed eating them too.

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Lydia's Painted Rock

Here's Lydia with a rock she painted as a craft during a week spent with the other kids of our team during field forum. The big kids helped the little ones. I think God designed it to work that way. And this week it really did!

Summer Storm

Now I don't have pictures to prove this, but yesterday at the job site in Bolgan I saw snowflakes...on August 23rd. I was watching the cold rain, mesmerized by the 45 degree angle at which it was coming down in waves. Then if possible, the wind picked up even more, and I saw a few chunks of solid matter dancing through the air. Seems like winter is on the way.

C&MA in Mongolia Mission News Link

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Hand Dug Well

Here's a picture of Ganzorig about about 20 feet below. It took him and a team about a week to dig this hole. Then it had to be dig even deeper. They pumped and dug in waste deep water simultaneously to make the well about 5 feet deeper than this, before installing casing and an underground storage tank. It was a dirty muddy job.

Today the water comes out as clear as any tapwater, with similar water pressure powered by a small electric pump.

Birthday Party for Lydia

Lydia and Gang Eat Cake

Lydia turned 4 in July. Our middle child is growing so fast. Everyone had fun eating cake and playing water balloons on this hot day of her party.

The Roof's On the House

Ice Cream Fun

A new family has joined our team in Mongolia. They have even more kids than us. Here they are together having fun with popsicles outside a local restaurant.

Celebrating in the Heat of Summer

This was taken at the national celebration called Naadam. We were trying to watch some wrestling, but everyone was so hot, we were mostly concentrating on eating something to cool or quench thirst. The sun is so intense here, going without a hat is inadvisable and nextdoor to miserable. So all our girls were in proper fashion, for a little bit, on a hot Darhan day in July.

Job Site Living

Here's where workers sleep while working on the building in Bolgan. Just outside our Ger door is a nice 6 foot trench to fall in if you're not careful. This trench contains our septic line and tank, and is now partially completed and filled in. Now for a roof on that house!

Summer Work

So we're moving to a town 3 hours away. All we have to do first is finish this house, so we have somewhere to stay. This is us, Jeremy and three guys from Darhan C&MA, after we finished pouring the foundation. (On a log home here, you assemble the logs on blocks, then put the foundation under the house -- a little different but it works)