We have a couple of fun announcements for you today! The first is that we will be home in Iowa for Christmas! Although our first furlough is not scheduled until a year from now, our time here in language school will be complete the week before Christmas and MAF is sending Alex to Spokane for some simulator training on the new aircraft he will be flying. With a new baby, a new move and the holidays MAF was gracious enough to send the whole family back together. We will have a couple weeks of vacation time there before Alex heads off to training in Washington and Idaho for a couple of weeks, then we will all return to Indonesia to meet our new home in Papua at the end of January. Unfortunately the nature of this trip doesn't leave us with much time to meet with many of you. But we hope to at least see many of you at church and say hello! Announcement number two: Last weekend we were officially assigned to the base where we will move when Alex's flight and maintenance training is complete roughly a year from now. Drum roll please... We have been assigned to the MAF base in Nabire! This is a port town that serves the villages throughout north central Papua. There will be just one other MAF family there, so out Indonesian language skills will certainly be stretched. We are pretty excited that we will live right next to the ocean. You can look forward to hearing more about what our lives there will be like in time, but for the upcoming year we will be on the main base of Sentani, near the city of Jayapura, while Alex works through his in country flight and maintenance training in the Kodiak. We are excited for the time that we will spend there, as it will be the place and people we come back to for resources and support for our life in Nabire. Here are a few pictures of Nabire that or future teammates graciously sent us! Prayer Requests: Finishing up life here in Salatiga well
Getting Ben's passport in time, and international travels with two littles in tow Blessings for our time in Iowa Alex starting the next phase of his training (he hasn't flown in quite awhile) And grace as we start over in a new place and culture again
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