Home in Pemba!

Hello Dear Friends and Family,

About 3 weeks ago, after our staff retreat in the
south, I made it back to Pemba safe and sound. I had
a hard first week of transitioning back into life
here, but God was so faithful in surrounding me with
old and new friends who are an amazing support. Thank
you all for praying for me as well. I really am
surrounded by His arms of love!

As far as work goes, I have been helping to get the
resource room/library up and running for the kids, and
next week I will start teaching one of our educators
how to teach pre-school. Hopefully in the near future
we will also have a prayer team to pray for and with
the kids.

While I was away, we received 2 precious little
treasures in the todlder house. One is baby Victorino
who just turned one year old and is full of life
despite his small body, which is due to malnutrition.
The 2nd gift was 5 month old Natalia who also came
very tiny and very sick. She has been here almost 2
months now, and under the care of fellow missionary,
Emelyn, has put on weight and really come to life!
She was diagnosed with a reflux disorder, but even
that sems to be on its way out. Thank you Jesus for
your healing power, especially among the smallest in
our family! Please pray for Victorino who is
currently battling malaria for the 2nd time in 2
weeks.

My housing situation is a bit interesting and I would
appreciate your continued prayer for me in this area.
IRIS Pemba has grown very large, very quickly, so
there is currently a shortage of longterm missionary
living space on the bases. I am now living in a house
that is smack dab in the middle of all the offices,
children's homes, mission school housing, Bible
School, and the caferia. I think originally it was
intended to be offices for the prayer house, which is
literally connected to the back of the house. To put
it lightly, it can get a bit loud here at times, and
the only time it's usually quiet is 9 or 10 PM till
5:30 AM. I have found that Jesus is giving me an
amazing grace to be able to live here and feel that He
has even promised to make it a "Dwelling Place" for
His presence. Yeah!!

I want to thank all of you who have been faithfully
praying for me and supporting me financially. I have
seen God come through for me many times already this
year through your faithfulness to run alongside me.
My prayer for you is that "the eyes of your heart may
be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to
which he has called you, the riches of his glorious
inheritance in the saints, and his incomparibly great
power for us who believe." Eph. 1:18-19

Blessings and love to you!
Tanya

Russian country outing

We went out one afternoon and played on this hill overlooking the town of Armavir

The whole gang with Armavir in the background- (back row) Slavik, Lera, Connie, George, Matthew- (front row) me, Anya, Nastya, Paula, Jo

First time kite flying in Russia


Beautiful Russian countryside

Bowling

STRIKE!!!