International Scenes

Lydia holds the flags of her two countries at opening ceremonies of her high school.  

Along with fellow seniors...

Welcoming the way for the rest of the school...

And in Mongolia, the Basketball Academy is back up and running

for the fall season.

 

Fall Scenes from the Family

Maggie in her room at Wheaton

Lydia playing games with dorm sisters...

Posing with her roommate for official dorm portraits...

Johanna with her dorm sister and roommate...

Is this a human braid or what?

Johanna with all her 10th grade dorm sisters...

Daddy sharing a bike ride with kids around the world...

Johanna is celebrated at her half-birthday party...

 

Lydia and Johanna back at Black Forest Academy!

    God answered their prayers to get them through airports and borders so they could start school on time!

Though roommates last year, here they are unpacking into separate rooms this year.  

About 18 dorm sisters gather around the table for dinner in the first few days back.

Dorm initiation involves getting 'palm' print emblazoned.  

The biggest blessing was that after a frustrating few days of remote learning with bad wifi shared between 20 students not to mention staff, Germany gave their school permission to attend school in person!  They made this decision after testing the whole school community, and finding NO COVID!

Thank God and thanks to those who prayed for our kids return to school this fall.  God answers prayer!

Maggie Started College!

Before taking her to college, we took a few pictures with Maggie in her BFA grad gear.  

Around the pond where we're staying...

And under the grapevine...

Here we are under Blanchard Hall, named after the the founder of the college, an abolitionist educator.

Lydia came with us as well as we prayer walked around the campus....

And here we are in front the campus of Wheaton College.

"For Christ and His Kingdom"