Spring is in the air

Janae and Marcy working on their BSF lessons
that they hijacked from their sister Rachel's internet access.

       As I see the temps in Northern Indiana hit the single digits, we have also gotten through our cold snap here where it actually got down to 59 degrees at night. I am sure that most of you are feeling sorry for us but we managed to survive. The rains have mostly let up and are not an everyday occurrence anymore and it has been really nice here, temperature wise. This week at Génesis during lunch, one of our team members had been playing tag with one of the students here, all hot and sweaty, said "man, I don't see how you guys take this heat, don't you ever get hot?"  This was on a extremely nice, 73 degree day, Karen and I just smiled and replied, sure we do get hot, in August and September. :)

We continue to be thankful for our security system "Buddy"

         We have had a great month of teams at Génesis with (2) two week "gap year programs" and the kids participants have been outstanding. We have had a great time in growing with them and seeing what Godly people they are becoming. We were told that one of our objectives here at Génesis was that when we have teams here, to grow them and stretch them in their walk with God. During this month of January and these two teams, Karen and I have been the ones that have been stretched. Thanks to Kati, Johnathan, Meagan, Julian, Hannah, Jonathan, Alyssa and Micaela for everything. We still have this coming week with five of them and look forward to it.

New location for Genesis. Needs a lot of work before the first of May.

      Karen has been spending a lot of her time this last couple of weeks planning and looking for ways to use the space at our new Génesis location. We plan on moving the middle of April. You can see more on that on the Génesis blog as I will be writing more about that in the next couple of weeks.
       Things that we are always thankful for.  Good health, SKYPE, a great DR family at Students International, care packages from the states, emails from a lot of you filling us in our your lives, and of course Gods protection on our lives and the blessings he showers us with.