Some 35,000 flee renewed clashes in DRCongo: UNHCR
GENEVA — At least 35,000 people have been forced to flee recent fighting between government forces and Rwanda Hutu rebels in eastern …
CHIC 2009 Students Challenged
Last week over 5,000 high school students and staff gathered in Knoxville, TN to hear well known speakers and bands; to worship, attend workshops and participate in a variety of activities. Today, the young people from our church gave testimonies …
Covenant Annual Meeting Highlights
Ron and Janet were honored to attend (June 25-28) the 124th annual meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church of America as delegates for 1st Covenant Church of Grand Rapids, MI. We were encouraged to see, for the first time in …
Prayer & Praise Update July 2009
Praise:
Praise God that all 3 Zieglettes (and Talita) passed their respective grades, finishing the school year strong.
Praise God for a great year with Talita, and that she arrived safely back to her home in Brazil.
Praise God for …
Prayer & Praise Update 1 June 2009
Praises:
Michelle graduated from Confirmation Sunday May 3.
Talita (our exchange student “daughter” this year) graduated from the high school May 26.
They boys soccer is going well.
Ron and I had a great time with the folks at Bachelor …
Acts
This month I’m at the end of a Community Bible Study course in Acts of the Apostles. I went into the study expecting to learn from Dr. Luke’s sequel all about missions as experienced by the first of many great …
Prayer & Praise Update 4 May 2009
Praise God for clarity. We feel called by the Lord and affirmed by Covenant World Mission to Rain Forest International School (RFIS) in Yaounde, Cameroon Fall 2010 pending adequate support; Ron in maintenance at the school, Janet in bookkeeping for …
Hello world!
After many years of communicating with friends and family across the ocean by snail mail and email, we’re thrilled to learn a new means of communicating. The Blog! At this writing, it’s my aim to write weekly with a different
… Congrats to our First College Grad!
Congratulations to Michelle on her graduation from the Grand Valley State University School of Eucation! She is now qualified to teach high school Biology and Chemistry! We are so proud of her.
She is also in the thick of planning …