Leaving California

We will be flying to Honduras on Saturday, July 30th. After 14 hours of airports and planes, we will stay the night in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and will be picked up by our school on Monday, August 1st.
Once we arrive in Siguatepeque we plan to use our time to settle in to our new town, get accustomed to their way of life, and spend some time preparing lesson plans before school starts. We will be attending an orientation beginning August 10th and school will begin August 22nd.

We are very excited for our move and this new stage of our lives. We are still not sure what to expect culturally or for our living conditions, but if Honduras is anything like the other Central American countries we have visited, I am sure we will love it.

Keep us in your prayers.

Our transition time in SLO - July

Only 4 weeks until we leave For Honduras.
We have successfully moved out of LA and are now living in the San Luis Obispo (SLO) area and spending some quality time with friends and family up here as we finalize all of the logistics for our move.

We just received our class assignments for next year. Karen will be teaching Secondary Science for grades 7-9 and English for grades 10, 11; Darrell will be teaching Elementary Science for grades 2,4,6 and will assist the full time teacher in teaching Science for grades 1,3,5 as well as teach Philosophy for grade 11. We are both excited about our placements and are greatly looking forward to working in Siguatepeque.

If you feel inclined to pray for us as we prepare, here are our big prayer requests:

• That God Enable us: to be caring and talented Science Teachers (Darrell has never taught in a classroom before and Karen has never taught Science before)

• That God Encourages us: as we transition into a new culture and learn a new language that we have been warned may be frustrating at times

• That God Grows us: both in our individual walks with Him and in our Marriage

• That God Uses us: both in our classrooms, and in ways that we do not anticipate

Karen moving into our new "home" for July

Jeniene, Darrell, & Karen hiking Bishops Peak in SLO