Having finished the last trimester of school, we had two weeks of “vacation” from our studies. My parents (Kris and Debbie Solberg) came to visit us for one of the weeks. Of course they loved every minute with Eliana! They enjoyed experiencing the Costa Rican food, transportation, market, and rain, rain, rain! 

MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES!

At the end of the last trimester, Daniel  started going with some other missionaries to a drug rehab center to share a Bible study with the men there. The other missionaries graduated last trimester and turned the ministry over to Daniel. He goes every Monday and shares the gospel in Bible study form with the guys. Afterwards, he answers questions and counsels guys who need or want help. A couple of weeks ago, one of the men, Arnoldo, shared with Daniel that he was so depressed and discouraged that he wanted to take his life. Daniel shared with him from God’s word and promised to pray for him. Praise the Lord that last week, Arnoldo accepted Christ as his Savior!  Right now, Daniel is the only one going to the drug rehab center. Please pray that God will burden some of the new student-missionaries for this ministry so that it can continue in January after Daniel and I leave.

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She’s here! After 38 weeks of waiting, God has placed the Precious Blessing in our arms. Thank you all for your prayers. It was a long labor. We checked into the hospital on Friday the 16th and she was born Saturday the 17th. It was a total of 26 hours of labor.  We thank the Lord that we were able to have a natural birth and that Eliana was born healthy.

Birth Facts:

 July 17th, 2010

At 6:36 pm

6lbs 3oz

19 inches

Just seven days after she was born, we took her to have blood work done (it’s a requirement here in Costa Rica) and they stuck her in the bottom of her foot! Both Eliana and Mommy cried!  She is eating very well and at her two-week checkup she had  gained several ounces and grown an inch!

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JUNE NEWS!

We have been here 12 weeks now and have only five more weeks of classes for this trimester! We are excited that we will be finishing the entire “one-year” program of Spanish in this first trimester. Because of this, Daniel and I will have the opportunity to take advanced classes in the next trimester. Most likely we will have a translation class (working on translating Spanish to English and vice-versa) and a language Bible class which will help us to learn Spanish vocabulary relating to the Bible, witnessing, other religions, etc.

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Where are the months going? It is so hard to believe that we have been here in San Jose for close to two months! Our foremost feeling at this point is one of extreme gratitude for all those who have given to help us have the privilege of studying here at the Spanish Language Institute. Although some students complain and groan about homework and language study, Daniel and I are both what our teacher calls “Nerdos!” You guessed it— nerds! Supposedly in Costa Rican Spanish that carries the significance of one who really loves studying and learning. So, I guess it does apply since we are enjoying every minute of learning !

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April passed by in a blur! The majority of the month was spent in sorting, selling, giving away and packing all of our earthly possessions. We were also able to spend some quality time with friends and family during the last two weeks that we were in the states.  We received all of the necessary paperwork, had the plane tickets, and packed four suitcases for Costa Rica! We thank God for the ways in which He provided for us to accomplish all of this.

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Sovereign God,
Your cause, not my own, engages my heart,
and I appeal to you with greatest freedom
to set up your kingdom in every place where Satan reigns;

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MARCH NEWS!

 Our “deputation” travels are now complete! We had two scheduled meetings for this month along with the two weeks at the ABWE Field Prep Seminar.  Our first meeting was a week-long missions conference held at Calvary Baptist in Dayton, TN. The church and its people were so kind and hospitable to us, providing us meals at the church for every lunch and supper! We enjoyed meeting these dear people and seeing their burden for missions. We experienced a bit of a scare on Thursday night of the conference when I suddenly had very sharp stomach pains. I was in such pain, Daniel rushed me to the ER. There we discovered, much to our relief, it was only a kidney stone! And when they told me the kidney stone can be as bad or worse than labor & delivery, I was very encouraged!

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We are so grateful to the many churches and individuals who through their prayers and financial support have partnered with us to help reach Colombia. If you would like to partner with us through financial giving please visit: www.abwe.org/give/commit-to-support-a-missionary/

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Today we are excited to unveil our new website and hope that it will provide a valuable means of communicating with all those interested in our ministry. Through this site we hope to share with you our burden for Colombia. While it has just been unveiled today, we are still familiarizing ourselves with the new software and have much work yet to completely populate the site. Please continue to check back for more information about our ministry and burden for Colombia.