A Full Week Ahead

It’s finally coming together, Lord willing.  This week John is putting the final details together to get the roof on the multipurpose/soccer stadium in Armenia.  Please pray for him as he gets all the details in order and as he and the workers actually put the roof on.  It’s really high in the air!  For those of you who have witnessed John work, you know he’s a monkey-that-loves-heights at heart.  Seriously,  please pray for good clear communication between the crane operator and John and the other workers.

Kathy will be spending the week finalizing schooling for the scholarship program.  She has already registered 3 students. Tomorrow afternoon she will be having a meeting with the parents to go over the ‘rules’ for the year.  On Tuesday she’ll register 2 more students for school.  After that it’s buying uniforms and materials.  Classes start Feb 6th for the new Honduran school year.  Please pray for her and for this year’s scholarship students and their parents.

Thanks for your continued prayers and encouragement.

John and Kathy

Chocolate Pie

This pie is VERY sacred in the Clow household.  A good southern wife bakes her pies in cast iron skillets....or maybe thats just crazy missionaries who use cast iron cause they don’t own pie pans!

Guess What?

I have my computer back!  It arrived today...err...I mean yesterday.  I didn’t have time to get on it before leaving to spend New Year’s with our friends.  But when I got home I couldn’t resist.  :D

Maybe now writer’s block will leave me and I can get back to monthly newsletters and blogging!!!

I pray that you all have a great and Wonderful 2012 filled with God’s peace and presence!

Couldn't Say It Better...

...if I tried.

Read Mike Pettengill's Blog to see what I couldn't say better if I tried.

An Attempt At Some Sort of Newsletter...

This is a post that I just wrote for our Clow Communicator Facebook page. 

I know I am procrastinating! Oh intentions are well meaning....but mean nothing at all without action put behind them. It's the newsletter - that thing I just can't seem to make myself write. I think I just may still be pouting over not having my computer/newsletter templates that are familiar to me. LOL!
Maybe I should just make this our 'end of the year newsletter'? No worries, I won't.
The Clows are doing well. John is busy constructing. The workers have next week off so he is getting some 'last minute' things done this week. Our kids are on Christmas vacation and this week Team Honduras adults are providing them a VBS on the life of Christ.
Today started Hanukkah which we celebrate (in addition to Christmas of course). It's a very cool holiday with great meaning behind i...t....anyway, the kids get one gift every night for 8 nights. So they REALLY love it! Tonight's present.....Socks. No not the kind you wear. Socks is a 9 week old Miniature Schnauzer. 6 years ago when we bought Oso (our Airedale) we also got Damita (a mini schnauzer). Soon after we got her she was hit by a car and killed. We have been telling the kids for...a years now...that we would get them another one. John found Socks and that was that. He already thinks he runs the household and is trying to put Oso in his place. Oso is 'tolerating' him except for when he tries to nurse on Oso. Oh great brothers they will be!
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas. We pray that it is a day full of Christ's love and peace and hope in your homes!

ARRIVAL!

The Troxells are on their way here!  Mike and Ashley just finished language school and will be serving with us here in Honduras.  Our team is growing and we are LOVING IT! 

Praises:  We recieved a 'matching fund' for the clinic in Armenia Bonito and for the seminary in La Isla!  What does that mean?  For every dollar donated to that project we get another dollar...up to a tune of several thousand dollars.  We are grateful for this blessing and excited to watch how God brings it all togher - for His glory!  We'll be posting more information in the coming weeks.  But if you want info NOW, e-mail me and ask.

I am trying - I really am - to get out a newsletter.  I am not sure why I am 'stuck'.  John's computer is great and he's so nice to let me use it :D  But I am familiar with my computer (still stuck in the States) and I have to be honest - I miss it.  I miss the format of the newsletter.  John's computer just won't let me do what I want to do!  Boy, do I sound like a pouty kid right now...(laughing).

We appreciate that you all love us, pray for us, encourage us.  THANK YOU!

Back Under One Roof...and Country

We are all back together!  This is a running thread of joy, not just through our family, but also through Team Honduras.  As soon as summer teams ended in September traveling began.  Mike to Turkey, Team Honduras ladies on a retreat, John and Mike to the States, Shannon to Peru and Mexico, Erin to California multiple times, Kathy and the kids to the States, and the last trip for the Pettengills to California to mourn the loss of Erin's mother.  Please pray for The Pettengills as they grieve and for Erin's dad.  Pray that God would draw him to himself and that he would come to know the love our Lord has for him.  

Thanksgiving Day saw that we were all together! Plus we had the added joy of having Mark and Kymmy (some of our bestest friends from IL) spend the week with us AND having Kate (our newest team mate) finally arrive for good here in La Ceiba!  In all we had 19 people in our home for dinner!

So now what?  We are all trying to 'settle' back into a 'routine' - just in time for the Christmas season when we will have special ministry programs for the kids in Armenia Bonito, our  kids 3 week school break, arrival of the Troxells (our team mates finishing up language school) who will be with us for 2 years and so on.  Oh well!  One would think that after 8 years of serving with MTW we would realize that the word routine should be used very loosely. 

Here's to hoping that blog updates will begin again, monthly newsletters will resume their regular schedule, and most of all that God is glorified in everything we do and say. To Him who is able to so much more than we even dare ask be praise forevermore!