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We are absolutely blessed to announce that Skip’s Kitchen in Carmichael is generously offering 15% of their proceeds on Tuesday the 13th from 3-9pm to help us with our one-time expenditures to get on the field! Please feel free to share with all of your friends, we’d love to see you all there. All you will need is this flyer (physically or electronically). The food is amazing, delicious and they are definitely family friendly! What an opportunity, we can’t wait to see you there!! Check out the Menu Here, you can even order online! Skip’s Kitchen 4717 El Camino Ave Carmichael, CA 95608 It’s a great excuse for a night out to dinner. Everyone has to eat, and now you can help us out a little while enjoying some awesome food! We recommend the B.O.M. sliders. Hope to see you there. If you have any questions Please Contact us at: nealanddanielle@gmail.com 916-712-3864 – Neal...
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A pair of ducks Our month long training at MTI was very beneficial in giving us some tools to equip us for the field. We loved our time in beautiful Colorado where we shared our similar stories, fears, frustrations, hopes, dreams, struggles, tears, laughter and love with 50 people going to over 22 countries. The first two weeks we spent in the “pilat” language acquisition program, learning great methods, applications, and phonology we can use for understanding Malagasy. The last two weeks were a bit more personal with “digging deep” (as they call it) in the Splice program dealing with cultural integration and our stress management, conflict styles, spiritual vitality, etc. Some of these tools we won’t be able to use until we are on the field. But other tools are meant for the transition we are in right now. We learned how our lives as missionaries are like “a pair of Ducks.” This pair is comprised of some awesome, exciting, positive “yay ducks,” and bummer, sad, hard, difficult, negative “yuck ducks.” These “pair of ducks” represents the reality of the “paradox” (par-a-ducks, get it??) that we cross-cultural workers face daily. It is a cute analogy that addresses some deep core emotional roller-coasters that we are on. Because good inevitably comes with some hardships, and if we avoid acknowledging the pain we sometimes insulate ourselves from true joys. It has been great for Braiden and Jacy to understand and be able to express some of their yuck ducks and yay ducks while on the journey into another culture. Because it is exciting and fun to meet new people, play new games, and explore (yay duck), but it doesn’t mean we are not sad or miss family and friends, and comforts from home (yuck duck). We need a chance to express (not suppress) both in order to have a healthy understanding of what we are going through and how God can walk with us through it. This analogy really works for everyone; as most of us are not void of sacrifice, as we are all commanded to daily pick up our cross and follow Him. We also learned how we might suppress each other by always talking on the positive side of things, which doesn’t help the other person grieve, process, or feel validated in the hardships they are going through. So our family now processes some of our busy full days with sharing our yuck ducks and yay ducks together. We hope this helps explain a little of the daily paradox we are walking as we are getting closer to leaving. We are excited and proud to be serving God in this capacity (yay duck), but have painful moments of realizing this means we are missing out on huge milestones with family and friends (yuck duck). Please feel free to share with us some of the yuck ducks and yeah ducks you are going through and how we can be praying for you! Hitting the ground running. We are officially done with all of our trainings and ready to go on the field!!!! Wait. oops. There is that money thing. I know some of you have been asking “When are you going?” This is a loaded question and believe me, we would love more than anything to give a clear, direct, confirmed date of departure. But… there are a lot of variables and loose ends that need to come together before we have that kind of clarity. We can project a time frame, but I think God just laughs at us when we make those kind of assumptions. Here...
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