Now baptised....

At the end of May Mattias and Annalise were both baptised. We promised to raise our kids to know and love Jesus and to follow him all their days. What a promise! Completely beyond our scope if it wasn't for our gracious God who works within us and through us. And I am so thankful that it isn't a promise just made by us as parents, but also by our family and church family to help us in this and to pray for us as we journey along this path of parenthood.

We hadn't baptised Mattias yet as our church in Loja doesn't practice infant baptism. This is probably a good thing to avoid confusion over it's significance when compared to christening within the catholic faith where it is seen as a necessary part of salvation.

Annalise put on a good show, crying the whole time we were up the front (she was just hungry, I guess I didn't time that quite right!).

Connecting across country experiences

It was good a while ago to be able to get together with some other people from our year at SMBC who are involved in similar work to us all over the world. Five families in five different countries across three continents all passionate about seeing people come to know Jesus and continue in Him until the end.

It was so nice to see our friends face to face and talk about some of our experiences of the past few years that we have read about through newsletters. Who knows when our home assignments will next coincide!

Life is hectic

I just need some sleep mum! The footpath will do me fine...

Life with Annalise

I can't believe our newest little girl is one day shy of 8 weeks! She is a sweet thing, with lots of smiles for us all and generally pretty settled (after Mattias and his reflux, what a blessing that is).

Evie and Mattias are doing a good job of being big sister and big brother, but Mattias isn't shy about telling me when it is time to put Annalise back into bed so he can't get some play time in with mum.

Ever thankful for our great church and family who have been an awesome help with meals being provided and pick up from pre-school and taking Evie to swim classes as I wait at home for the 6 weeks no driving post c/section.