Isaiah 45:2

"I will go before you and

Gifted With the Journey
make the rough places Volume 5, Issue 4 - March 2018
smooth; I will shatter the
doors of bronze and cut
through their iron bars”. It is going to be quite a Spring. We choose it. It’s all good,
but….wow!

Josh is continuing to work on his Masters in IT Management and … Josh’s Highlight
let’s just say he is currently sick. It is tough to balance BFA Work and Amidst all of the hassle and bustle
Prayer - Praises & Requests
 working on his coursework!
 of life here, Katie and I had the
We have High School Retreat this weekend. Please pray for us as there opportunity to take a small
Praises 
 will be drama, late nights, fun with our small groups…but hopefully also vacation to a nearby city and enjoy
* Katie was thankful to be able to travel memory making experiences and good conversations with students. We pray more of the German culture and
back to the states for her maternal to all come away more like Him. 
 history. We got to go to the city of
grandmother’s funeral Triberg, which is known for
Katie is just finished with participating in the orchestra for Fiddler on
* Thankful for students and interactions cuckoo-clocks, and for hosting the
with them
 the Roof alongside some of her students. She was asked to speak in the
Middle School Chapel service, and just did that today. Her topic was tallest waterfall in Germany. We
Requests “When God Says No”. She felt like it went well, but hopes everything was enjoyed the opportunity to look at
* High School Retreat this weekend!!! the different shops and a museum
clear. She is preparing for Music Festival in which her seven private lesson
* Music Festival preparations showing a glimpse of life through
students will be performing two songs each and she will be accompanying 12
* Portugal Service Project preparations the ages here. We enjoyed it all,
* ACSI Honors Choir preparations string students, so 24 pieces, on the piano. Piano is not Katie’s favorite even things as simple as feeding
* Direction in ministry….specific people, instrument to perform on and she wants to support these students well. the squirrels near the waterfall.
specific tasks…that we would not lose Please pray for her in that. 

focus of Him in ministry, but rather that We are preparing to take five students on a Service Project Trip to
our ministry would be an outpouring of
Lisbon, Portugal. We are going to be assisting with a Vacation Bible
our relationship with Him. Katie’s Highlight

* We are in the process of purchasing a School of sorts, as well as helping out with a church’s outreach program. 

We have been looking for a home with a guest room/nursery for a while, 

home here - cheaper than renting
It’s honestly hard to pick. My two
* HEALTH and ENERGY!!! something a little bigger than where we are right now. The things we were favorites were: having the Beginning
finding that fit this criteria for rent were surprisingly expensive. So, because Band join the community adults, High
Calendar we had a gift of a downpayment, we have decided to purchase a home here in School Band and Intermediate Band to
Germany. The rule is that you need to own the home for the next ten years. play in the Basketball Pep Band for our
March
 varsity teams. So fun to have them all
We currently do not feel the Lord calling us from here, and believe that even
2-4 High School Retreat 
 together and see them interacting with
with our small groups
 if He did…it would not be hard to find renters. It is cheaper this way than each other. 


 renting, we are making a financial investment, and we are trying to be good Secondly, I loved playing in the
12-16 Music Festival
 stewards. We are excited because we will have enough room to host both of orchestral pit for Fiddler on the Roof

 our small groups in our home weekly and host people…as we have enjoyed alongside my students. I had two
23-30 Leading student clarinetists and one baritone
doing, for dinner or game night, etc. So, we will have a room to host you if
service project to Portugal saxophone, even in the same row with
April 
 you want to come visit. We’ll let you know when we’re ready for you! : ) 
 me. It’s fun to see them grow - in their
4-9 Honors Music Week in 
 ability and maturity. Two of them are
Vienna
 Address: Hauptstrasse 54, 79400 Kandern, GERMANY Phone: 904-701-3129
 seniors. I’m going to miss them next

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Featured Pictures Below
Most of the time, after a musical There is just a lot of transitions 

rehearsal in Germany, it is in the Black Forest Academy 

customary for those
 involved to go community. We often try to reach out, 

1 - Fundraiser for Honors Music Week
 out for drinks afterwards. Josh and
2 - Time in U.S. with family for funeral 
 
 but it is more rare than we would like, 

I have only on rare 
 occasion joined that we are reached out to as well. 

3 - Pep Band w/beginners as well
 them to be social; however, we
4 - Pit orchestra for Fiddler
 
 Katie was encouraged recently because a

have no idea how they do it. How young lady reached out to her. They 

5 - Fiddler on the Roof 

do they go out drinking, stay out so didn’t need or want anything in 

late and get to work the next particular. They just genuinely cared 

morning on time. Maybe it has to and wanted to catch up. 

do with their other custom of a It was refreshing! 

12-2 lunch/nap, but…how are they 

so healthy? How do they do it?
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Prayers for the Month of March 2018

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Churches BFA School Ministry Marriage/ BFA Staff/ Evangelism Germany

Family Students

1 - Our high 2 - Our students at 3 - Pray for those

school students BFA are not all in leadership
leave for high walking with the positions in
school retreat Lord, or saved. Germany, to come
tomorrow. Please Pray that their to know Christ as
pray for us as we hearts would be their Savior. Pray
will be chaperon- open. Pray that that they will then
ing and concentra- they would accept be used to turn
ting on our small Him as Savior & Germany back to
groups as well. Lord of their lives. the Lord.

4 - Katie is 5 - Pray for our 6 - Katie has 7 - Our marriage 8 - We have some 9 - For the men in 10 - Pray that
coordinating the dorm staff that begun to work in would be healthy, students who are the Men’s Choir, Christianity…and
church nursery they would have the AWANA growing, and confused with their that Josh is in. the number of
workers. Pray that the strength, love ministry. Pray that focused on the identity…their That he would Jesus-seekers
young hearts and … to give each God’s Word will be Lord. That our culture, their have the and followers will
minds would come day. Pray that they penetrating their relationship would parent’s work, opportunity to grow in Germany,
to know God and would not grow young hearts and reflect Him to what to do with the share about God and just in the
know they are weary in His good minds with His others. Bible. Pray that with them. world in general.
loved by Him at work. Word. they would
this early age. respond to Jesus.

11 - The church 12 - We are 13 - The Portugal 14 - We have the 15 - Spring is a 16 - Pray for two 17 - Our BFA
the BFA staff and loosing nine staff Service Project desire for a family. BUSY time of year young ladies from students/staff
students attend is members this preparation is in That the Lord at BFA. Please the old town band, minister to a group
seeking a pastor. Spring for various full swing. Please would grant that if pray that the staff Chiara and Steffie, of refugees in
We have four reasons - pray for our it is best, or give would have the that I would have town weekly. Pray
candidates. pregnancy, aging students and our us contentment energy that they a door to talk with that they would
Please pray for parents, etc. Pray team, we are 8 in …. or different need, the them about God. come to receive
wisdom for the for our current number…as we children, not our resources to Christ as their
search committee. staff as we pick up go there to own. continue in Savior.
We want His man. their work. minister in March. ministry.

18 - Katie is in 19 - Pray for the 20 - We want our 21 - Katie’s 22 - We have 23 - Pray for our 24 - Pray for the
training for the teachers, that we work offices to be maternal grandma several staff who house mates, reconstruction of
financial secretary would have insight a place where passed away, a are leaving Heidi and the the German
position at church. with each student, growth happens - month ago at this halfway through Wittstock family, government. Pray
The church is seeing the to be more like point. It was the Spring and our landlady that the Lord’s
primarily other intellectual and Christ. We have January 19th. semester. Pray for Frau Feldheim, people will be
missionaries and spiritual needs… invited Him into Please pray for them as they that we would be elected. Pray for
BFA staff/families. wisdom with how our ministries. the family as they transition out, pray lights for Jesus to revival.
Please pray she’ll to address them. Pray that He continue to mourn for the remaining them.
learn all she would shine her loss and staff as they
needs to before through us. celebrate her adjust.
her predecessor home going.
leaves town.

25 - Several lead 26 - Pray for our 27 - We want our 28 - Pray that we 29 - Please pray 30 - Please pray 31 - Please pray
couples in our administration as home to be a would keep “That for our staffing for our new however you feel
church will be they make many place where God All May Know needs for next housemates…that led for any of the
leaving next year. decisions each is honored and Him”, as the grid year. For those we will be able to categories. 

Pray that there will day, that they reflected. We are through which we whom are called reflect Christ to Thank you SO
be appointed would have in the process of run all our to go and support, them, even as we much for
people who will wisdom, insight purchasing a decisions through, will respond in move in. partnering with us
step up to serve and sensitivity to home here, the especially how we obedience. in this way!
and lead. God’s leading. paperwork use our time.
process.
 1 - Fundraiser for Honors Music Week

2 - Time in U.S. with family for funeral

3 - Pep Band for Varsity Basketball Teams with the community adults; High School/Intermediate and Beginning Bands

4 - Pit orchestra for Fiddler

5 - Fiddler on the Roof, HS Musical Production