This Week

(Us with the Rambos at the seminary graduation)

We are currently spending time with friends (the Rambos) who are missionaries to Uganda! They are our dear friends from Mississippi! We are spending the week encouraging one another and sharing in fun missionary experiences!
If you notice on the side bar there is now a place where you can read our most recent updates! As you know, we send out monthly email updates as well as quarterly newsletters...well now they are here for your viewing pleasure! You can click on the newsletter and it will pop up for you to read! Scott Rambo helped me figure out how to get it on the blog, so of course I want to thank him! Thanks, Scott!!!!

Hope you all enjoy!
Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

A Whirlwind of a Weekend

We had a wonderful weekend with Sweetser Wesleyan Church! We were able to share on Sunday evening with this congregation about our call to missions and about the work in Russia. Adalynn was doing so well before the service and right before we began speaking...she began crying! Philip ended up doing the whole presentation, but like always, he did a wonderful job! We are excited to report that we have 4 new prayer partners through this church! Please be praying for the Lord to be speaking to hearts.
After the service at Sweetser Wesleyan, Philip, Adalynn, and I drove to Noblesville to spend the night at Shunem House with Jim and Jeanette! We had a wonderful time of encouragement and fellowship! Thanks, Jim and Jeanette for the great time with you!
Monday morning we headed to Headquarters to introduce Adalynn to some people! It was great to visit with people! We also had a chance to get to eat lunch with Martha B.! We had a wonderful time of encouragement from her!

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

Having fun at Sweetser Wesleyan!

Jim and Jeanette with Adalynn

The Weekend Ahead

We are on the road again this weekend. We are headed to Sweetser Wesleyan Church in Sweetser, Indiana. We are looking forward to spending the evening service sharing about our call to this ministry as well as about the work the Wesleyan church is currently doing in Russia. The church has invited us to stay afterward for a potluck! We are looking forward to interacting and getting to know the Sweetser congregation! Please, please be in prayer for us this weekend. The future is so unknown to us as we continue to seek and pray earnestly for our support to come in over these last months. We know that God is faithful, and we are trusting Him fully...but it is hard sometimes. Pray with us as we go to this church in hopes of receiving prayer partners and faith promise givers.

After our time with Sweetser Wesleyan Sunday evening we are then going to travel to Shunem House in Noblesville to spend the night. We are looking forward to seeing Jim and Jeanette again! Jim and Jeanette are our pastors to missionaries while we are here in the States on Home Ministries. The picture above is from last fall when we spent a week in Indianapolis for our Missionary Orientation. We stayed at Shunem House for the week along with another missionaries, the Lords and Emma. We had a wonderful time! This weekend we are of course bringing along Adalynn! We are excited to introduce her to Jim and Jeanette!

Monday morning on our way home to T.H., we are planning on stopping by Global Partners' headquarters located at the Wesleyan Headquarter building in Fishers. We will just drop in and say hello and introduce Adalynn to some people. Pray that Adalynn will be on her best behavior! We don't make it up to headquarters very often even though it is a little over an hour away. We are looking forward to it!

Blessings as you enter this weekend of rest...may the Lord renew your spirits as you spend time in worship to Him this Sunday! You are in our thoughts and prayers!
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn


p.s. Sorry, I had to sneak a few pictures in of Adalynn! Enjoy!

She's getting ready for the sunny days in Russia!

Back in the Swing of Things

We are back to the grind again...learning more Russian! We fell a "little" behind on our Rosetta Stone Language learning after Adalynn was born. I'm not sure why we fell behind. We only had a baby...which in turn means: sleepless nights, continuous feedings, piles of diapers and laundry...you get the point. Anyway, we are back and learning more and more everyday. Philip and I are trying...I mean, we ARE doing a lesson each day, sometimes two lessons a day. I was so surprised and encouraged at how some of the words came back very easily. If you remember from a previous post, I was not able to say the word sandwich in Russian, therefore I decided I was not going to eat sandwiches next year in Russia. Well, there has been a break through and sandwiches are now on the menu for Russia! I said it the other day and was so relieved! I had previously said it about 20 times before giving up...now my new word I cannot say is bread. Somehow I knew the hard word would have something to do with sandwiches!
Here are some words we can say:
man
woman
girl
boy
dog
cat
swim
walk
run
eat
egg
drink
water
bicycle

Please keep praying for us as we tackle this Russian language. Pray for patience, endurance, perseverance, passion, and wisdom as we take time to learn more Russian!

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

The Weekend's Adventures

(Adalynn in the car on the way to Burt Avenue Wesleyan)

Philip and I thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Ohio this past weekend! We had a great time visiting with family, and a wonderful Sunday morning worship service with the people of Burt Avenue Wesleyan Church in Coshocton, Ohio. We were looking forward to being with the Burt Avenue congregation as this is our first Ohio church to visit! The trip didn't start off as you might think...Adalynn was extremely tired, which in turn meant a crying, fussy baby, we thought we had left our commitment cards in Indiana, and we were running a bit behind schedule. As you can imagine all those things would make you want to turn around and climb back in bed, but we persevered! Once at the church we found ourselves thanking the Lord for many outcomes: Adalynn fell asleep, we were early, and we found just enough commitment cards in the bottom of our suitcase! The Lord was looking out for us!
The service went well, and we are praying for many people at Burt Avenue to join our support team! We received a few new prayer partners, and many people took our cards saying they were going to be praying about how they could be involved. Please pray with us as the church itself is praying about becoming a partnering church. Their missions conference and meeting is in February, so we will find out in a few weeks. The people of this congregation were so welcoming and kind! Following the service Philip, my mom, Adalynn, and I went next door to the pastor's house for a delicious meal! It was great to talk with the pastor and his family! We even found out that we knew some of the same people through various connections! We left feeling blessed and encouraged.
Thank you, Burt Avenue Wesleyan, for the wonderful time we had this past Sunday!

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

Our display at Burt Avenue Wesleyan

The best nursery worker ever!
(My mom...aka Grandma Streicher)

OHIO

We will be visiting/speaking at Burt Avenue Wesleyan Church in Coshocton, Ohio this coming Sunday, January 17th! We are looking forward to being with this congregation! Please pray for us as we travel, and also for the Holy Spirit to be with us as we share about Russia to this church. We are praying and asking the Lord to add more people to our support team through this church. We are also asking the Lord for Burt Avenue to become a partner church. Please pray and ask the Lord to do these things. He who has called us is faithful.
Philip, Adalynn, and I are also looking forward to traveling to Ohio this weekend because we get to see my family! My family lives in Granville which is about an hour west of Coshocton. We will be driving tomorrow and spending Friday-Sunday with my family. Of course the weekend will consist of going to the coffee shop with my parents, watching the Colts Saturday evening, and watching my youngest brother play high school basketball! My mom is willing to come with us to Burt Avenue Wesleyan Church on Sunday to watch Adalynn, (it was like pulling teeth to get her to come and watch her only grandchild...) so Philip and I can both share in the morning service.

(Kara's Family)

Thank you for being faithful in pray and giving to this ministry. Thank you for being faithful to the Lord in helping to minister to the lost of this world.

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

Our Fellow Missionaries

As most of you have already heard, there was a devestating earthquake in Haiti yesterday. The Wesleyan Church has 106 churches in Haiti. We want to praise the Lord for keeping all of our missionaries safe during this crisis. Here is a link of more details of what the Wesleyan church is doing to help in Haiti...Wesleyan Church in Haiti.

Please be praying for our current missionaries there on the field. Pray that they will have wisdom and compassion as they deal with the aftermath. Also pray for their own safety.

Blessings,

Philip, Kara, and Adalynn