Life here at the Farm

Here is the van with all of our stuff:Here is a picture of our Quad. Each building is broken down into apartments.

Our apartment has 3 bedrooms, 1 bath and a kitchenette.

This is a picture of the boys room.

All of the bedrooms look the same - except we have pushed our twins together!

Our daily routine is such that we wake up and walk and then we have breakfast in the cafeteria. We will soon start having small group church with a few families that are going to West Africa. We then take the kids to their school. We then have meetings and will be trained in all sorts of things - it will be like drinking from a fire hydrant for 8 weeks. We have to read soooo much stuff. The training is very thorough. After our training we have dinner in the cafeteria. For the most part our evenings are "free". But with that you have to play with your kids, read many books and if you haven't exercised - fit that in as well. This will be a time of tremendous growth!

We know that the Lord will stretch us in so many ways. One of the things that has been asked of us is that we journal everyday - that is new for me, so it has been awesome for me. It has only been a few days - but I really like it! God has been showing us some really cool things and we look forward to sharing those with you over the next 8 weeks.

We miss you very much and although our days are full - we think of you often!

Our address while we are here is: Ron Millender, International Learning Center 16492 MLC Lane Rockville VA 23146 (care packages welcome :))

I leave you with a video of Faith's baptism - thanks to Faith Baptist for allowing Ron this amazing privilege.

We are here!

Quick post to say that we are here - thank you Tim and Ben! We got our "apartment" pretty much set up and organized. We will be posting pictures tomorrow - our quad mates are great! They have a son who is 9 and a daughter who is 6 - the kids are so excited to have built in playmates. Tomorrow we have a low key day doing a scavenger hunt to get acquainted with the "farm". Thanks for all of your prayers - pray that this will be a time of preparation for us physically, spiritually and emotionally for our family. We love you guys!! Thanks again to the Williams for all of your sacrifice these last 2 weeks!

Van Anyone? Price Lowered!

If you or anyone you know are need a van, we still need to sell ours... here is the low-down.

It is a 2005 Ford Freestar Minivan:

90,000 miles

7 passenger

rear seat folds into floor

new A/C

clean interior

small dent in rear

sound mechanically

Asking price: $8,300

If you know anyone interested please call us at 919-889-9499

Crazy Crate Fun

Thursday at 11 am - J.D. at John's Moving and Storage is lining our empty crate - 200 cubic feet of space, which is smaller than your bathroom.

All of this stuff needed to fit in that crate....Can you identify the guitar? How about the 10 speed bike?

3 hours later they had played 3-D tetris with all of our belongings and managed to cram the crate closed - with a little bit of help from another 200+ lb. man and about a 100 nails! We were so exhausted sitting and watching that we had to go have lunch at Zaxby's. We won't see our stuff until we arrive in Senegal sometime after March 09. Someone please remind me then that the bolt for the keyboard stand is in the clear plastic drawer.

Wii Fun

Here is my 93 year old grandmother bowling on the Wii - Ron was very patient in teaching her. It was fun to watch her simulate bowling.

Here is my sister now trying to get Grammy to get the hang of letting go of the ball at the right time. My grandmother was a good sport and is now excited about trying it at her home in Florida. We had a great time with her at the beach - it was hard for her with us wanting to spend our time in the sand and surf. She isn't that sturdy in the sand and she has had so much skin cancer that her Dr. has told her she can't be in the sun at all, but it was still great hanging out with her. Faith loved playing cards with her - we taught her a new card game that she caught on quickly to! It was awesome to see my daughter play games with my grandmother. I am glad that my kids got to spend some time with her. She is very special to me.

Love you Grammy!

Myrtle Beach fun

Hey there - we are knee deep in preparations, but wanted to update you guys with some pics. We are counting down to only 3 weeks left in NC. We are packing the rest of our stuff for our crate on Thursday, so we are super busy. We will post more details after Thursday.

Our trip to Niagara

We had a great day - it was truly majestic to see the handiwork of God. It was fun seeing it through the kids eyes. We rode the Maid of the Mist boat and it sailed us right up to the base of the falls - the mist was so powerful.