Friedberg Happenings

We are learning so much! Working with multi-cultural teams, language learning tools, missionary kids issues, how to live healthy in Asia, and  coping with stress have been some of the classes that  we have attended.

The most inspiring and encouraging is hearing everyone’s “stories”  on how they have arrived to this place in their life. One OMF director shared about when he was a missionary kid in Zimbabwe. Or one fellow Orientation Course attendee from Taiwan shared about her training on animal husbandry, or a couple from South Africa and Mauritius who served on the ministry ship the “Doulos” and got married etc, etc!

Micah & Jordan are enjoying their friends from Hong Kong, Germany, & the UK. They are doing group crafts, learning about Indian spices, and botany. In “Kid Zone” they have gone to the Botanical Gardens, the Singapore National Library, and swimming. One fun thing they did was go to the grocery store and buy all the different fruits(i.e. dragon fruit, star fruit, mangosteen,) Then they sampled them all. Did you know that there is a dark pink dragon fruit and a white dragon fruit?

Anyway,we are  making friends and  connecting with our fellow missionaries.Here are a few picts to share:

Bartley Church(Singapore) -Very outreach minded and on fire.

My favorite tree in the botanic garden -The Heritage Tree.

Micah and Jordie chillin’.              A dish at a local restaurant

Eating Asian style.

   Two years after being accepted by OMF International ,we are finally in Asia!!!  Singapore is alive and  happening. We will be here for 30 days for training, equipping, and encouragement. We are in day two of the course.

  Even as we were driving in from the airport to OMF headquarters at 2A.M. people were still eating and hanging outside  in patios of  restaurants. The McDonald’s here are huge and crowded . They have  small food stands of McDonald’s called “MCcafe’s”. There was one located in front of a very hip looking Marriott in the heart of downtown.

   We have met people from the UK, Germany ,Switzerland, Netherlands, Mauritius, South Africa, USA, Philippines, and Canada. Peoples ages range from 25 to 64  and all are going to serve the Lord full time in Asia. Some people are single women going out to some gnarly closed access nations. They are very inspiring to talk to.

   We are acclimating to the tropical climate and experiencing  the rain “downpours”. The city is clean and has an incredible rapid transport system(of course we got lost twice and found ourselves six subway stations away in the wrong place)

    It has been an incredible journey and we can’t help be grateful by all the love, prayers, and special goodbyes we had before we left. What  a blessing it is to know we were sent out with love and blessings.

Lighthouse Christian Fellowship- Pastor Bill and elders sending us off

Send off gatherings. All our supporters. Without you all we would not be able to serve overseas. You will be greatly missed.

Thank You!

The entrance of OMF International Headquarters in Singapore