Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Christmas Time is here!

Hello all!



We hope that you have been enjoying the Christmas season, and have been enjoying the festivities and time with family that comes with the season. We also hope that you were able to take some time to think about what we are remembering this time of the year.

We have been Busy, and we promised you that we would put up photos from our trip to the national park Laguna de Laja. If you are interested in seeing some follow this link below!
https://picasaweb.google.com/110505343029325873230/ParqueNacionalLagunaDeLaja

In case you didn't know the Wieber family is down here, and we have been having a blast with them! We don't want to write too much, so we are going to put up a bunch of photos taken in the last two weeks with subtitles.

The Wieber's plane landing 
Here is the family entertaining César and his family. Dario is also eating with us.
Reading the Christmas story (in both english and spanish!)
Luciano (front left) and César (front right) at a Christmas even near Tomé
Kelly and Thea walking on the beach in Tomé 

Fernando, Kelly, Alejandra, and Luciano in Menke delivering Christmas gifts
Stephanie (left side red shirt) at an event in Bellavista
Christmas morning with the Wieber kids, it was really fun to spend Christmas with them

Missy with a gift from her mom (Thanks for the awesome movies Ann!)

The twins playing on the beach
We think Andie likes the bread a lot down here

Missy's Birthday present arrived late



Thats all for now, stay tuned for more photo updates.

Blessings,
Jordan and Missy

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Excuse our lack of updates

We are working on a good one. Enjoy this photo for the time being.



Jordan and Missy

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Samaritan's Purse

You may have heard of Samaritan's Purse before, but if not, it's a Canadian program that sends gift boxes all over the world. Anyone can fill a shoe box with toys and candy, specifying an age group and gender, and then they turn them in wherever they are being collected. The boxes are then shipped all over the place, and come with a small booklet that shares the gospel. It's a really great program that Luciano's church has used for many years - and this year they gave him over 2,000 boxes to give to the kids who are still living without permanent housing after the earthquake! The only thing we had to do to get these boxes was to find a way to bring them to Tome from where they were - about 2.5 hours south. 

So we readied the van for a heavy load!

We also rented another truck to fill with boxes


The van ended up holding 20 big boxes filled with shoe boxes, it was a lot to carry, but the car did just fine!

We also filled the truck to the brim (and more!)


The catch was that we also had to the unload all the boxes...

Currently they are residing at Luciano's until we can hand them out.


While Jordan did all the hard work, Missy just took the pictures. 

We are very excited to be able to give all these boxes away come Christmas!
Feliz Navidad - Jordan and Missy

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Garden Update

Hey everyone! We are going camping this week, but wanted to leave you with some exciting pictures of our growing garden. We are already eating "una caleta" (a TON) of lettuce everyday, and it just seems to keep growing!

Small bed with lettuce, some beets, a tomato and zucchini plant

Large bed with tomatoes, beets, lettuce, garlic and zucchini

The garlic plants

The tomato plants are tied up to posts, but are still all over the place

We've got a big mix of lettuce types, with some beautiful Romaine that I grew from seed

Flowers from the zucchini

Imac checking things out

Jordan built a little bench a few weeks ago, it offers a great view of the bay of Tome. 

Blessings, may you all have a wonderful week.
Missy

Monday, December 5, 2011

Conexion Juvenil

Hey All!
We were at a youth conference in Concepcion this weekend filming all the speakers. It was a great time, and we met some wonderful people. Here are just a few pictures we got from the day! 

Our good friend Pastor Cesar spoke at the conference...

He had everyone laughing just about the whole time

Missy filming the question and answer session

We had the pleasure of going out to lunch with the speakers, it was a great opportunity to get to know a little bit about them outside of the conference

Pastor Luciano also shared


Overall it was a very long day, but a fabulous chance to learn a bit, film a lot, and get to know more Chileans! 
Blessings to you today,
Jordan and Missy

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

IndieWire


Hey All!
As some of you may or may not know, we are currently in the process of trying to raise money for a documentary on the town of Dichato, and the residents who are still without permanent housing nearly two years after the tsunami of Feb 2010 took their homes. You can go to our Kickstarter page HERE to learn more, and also to donate if you feel like helping us in making this dream a reality.

Currently, we are being featured on IndieWire Magazine's Project of the Month competition, and have the opportunity to talk to the Sundance Film Institute if we win. This could help push our project to the next level, get us some great contacts, and be an awesome encouragement to the project.

The documentary is called Espera Dichato, the voting is HERE, and we have until Friday morning to vote. Please tell your friends, neighbors, anyone with Facebook (as it's a Facebook poll) to vote! Thanks so much for your help, we are truly blessed to even be in the running.

Have a great day!
Missy and Jordan

Friday, November 18, 2011

Food and a Friend

Now that it's November, there are more and more signs of the up and coming summer....

There is street construction EVERYWHERE. Tome is getting ready for tourist season.

The main road through town.

Hanging my laundry the other day I came out to find a friend in my laundry basket.

These little guys are super cute, and the cat has fun attempting (and failing) to hunt them.

We had a super-special-summer dinner the other night - homemade hamburgers, corn on the cob, and iced tea.

Complete with strawberry shortcake!

Hope you all are enjoying the coziness of fall up there in the northern hemisphere!
Jordan and Missy

Thursday, November 17, 2011

More Kids Min

We had a great turn out for Kids Ministry this weekend, it was a bit of chaos but everyone came out with more of an understanding of who the Holy Spirit is! I think we also made a convincing case as to why the Sunday School needs its own room, we were more than a little bit noisy. 

Here was the craft of the day, a Holy Spirit suncatcher

Everyone was very creative this week with their craft

With our last few minutes, a few of the youth girls did some face painting


Our verse of the week is:
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.   -Romans 15:13

God bless you today,
Missy

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Marriage Group Retreat


Last weekend our marriage group had a retreat at a house just outside of town. The theme was prayer, and we had a great time of fellowship with music, lots of food, and awesome prayer as couples and as a group.

"Los Gordos" some great friends of ours

Pastor Luciano leading worship


The women preparing the meal


Delicious food

Food and fellowship

It was also Oswaldo's birthday that day, and his wife made an AMAZING cake

Little ones

Playing under the table

We had a great time! 
Blessings today,
Missy