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Monday, September 4, 2017

Beginning our Second Year


We have begun our second year of teaching and have enjoyed getting back into a regular routine. Stacey is volunteering in the SOARR Program at school and helping coach volleyball.  Rachelle is in the 7th grade and is playing volleyball. Branden is in 10th grade and is about to start therapy for his knee which he hurt the first day of school. Christy and I are teaching the same classes and I am helping coach soccer.

Stacey is enjoying life as an adult, but is still hanging out with some of her friends, who are in high school yet. She is having a hard time deciding whether to hang out with the kids or with the young adults. So far it has been about half and half.

Rachelle finally has a locker of her own. She has moved into Jr High and is loving the different classrooms and teachers.  She has made the JV volleyball  team and is 1 of 5 players who are going to play both varsity and JV.  She is loving being involved in school and was voted in to be a student representative of her class.  Looking forward to seeing how God uses her in this position and how she will make a difference in the people around her.

Branden had a big disappointment during the first day of school.  The was involved in a relay race/obstacle course and hurt his knee. He had surgery two and a half weeks ago. The doctor cleaned out his knee cut out about 5 percent of his meniscus and decided to leave the ACL alone and let it heal itself. The doctor removed the stitches last week Thursday and he was given permission to start some exercises and lifting weights. Pool therapy will be begin at the end of the week. He will be out of sports until the middle of November.

Christy is still in PreK2 and loving it.  She has some new curriculum so she has been busy trying to teach the new curriculum, and put it all in the database. Progress reports go out this week, so she has been testing her children and seeing where each of them are at. Along with recording all that information, she also had to write a paragraph about each of them. She is super excited to be tutoring four hours a week to learn Spanish!

I have all the same classes but am changing up the computer classes to be more online. Web design and coding have changed to an online class that they can work at their own speed. This has made the class easier ,but hard for me to stay in front of the faster kids. The 4th grade computer class is changing also. I have incorporated an online typing course that they will learn to type correctly and hopefully start gaining some speed in a month or so. 5th and 6th grade classes are alternating coding and typing. This gives them an opportunity to improve on their typing skills and also get introduced to coding.

Two months into our second year we continually are looking for additional supporters. This past year we were grateful in reaching about 90% of our goal. We thank all who supported us with prayers and financial support. We have started our second year a little behind already. Our monthly supporters have been wonderful but are only contributing about 25% of our goal. Our one or two times a year givers made a big impact last year and we are looking for your support again this year. Please prayerfully considering contributing to our mission work down here in Nicaragua.


Jeff and Christy Faber

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