January 30, 2007

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  Jan 26th, 2007…. Sooooo
  
  I have four children; Matthew, Rachel, Sarah and Noelle, in chronological order.
  
  
  
  
  Noelle & Matt
  
  
  
  Noelle, Sarah, and Rachel
  (in a dorm in Mexico)

  
  

  
  Rachel was born in the afternoon on July, 23, 1981, at the University of Michigan Hospital, in Ann Arbor.
  She started talking a little later than her brother had (5 months..no kidding!), but people commented that she
  was fun to listen to, because she articulated everything very carefully..’Little” was never “liddle”, as we commonly say it., and so on.

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

  Perhaps a sign of a good ear for the spoken word.(..in recent years, while working and shopping with her in Mexico, shopowners and Mexican mission workers have stopped her and asked about/commented on her Spanish…apparently she speaks it with the local dialect.) 
  
  When she was 12, her school sent a large group of parents, students, and teachers to Mexico
  for a multi-task mission trip; home building, Bible school/evangelism, music, medical.
  Rachel went, and came back with photos of being baptized in the Rio Grande by a Mexican minister named “Mondo” (honest!). 

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  She’s never missed a summer since (she’s now 25) for going to Mexico. She’s spent her whole summer living in Mexico 2 or 3 times, working for Faith Ministries and seems at times more at home there than here.

  
  

   

  
  

                                         
  This past December, she graduated from College with majors in linguistics and Spanish, and concentrations in English, education, and TESOL (teaching english to speakers of other languages).

  
  

  She’s working in Ghana for 5 months with YWAM, after which she’ll be in Mexico briefly, then in Peru for a year working for Presbyterian Missions.

  
  

   

  
  

  Latest post on Rachel in Ghana available:
  (remember to stop Jimmish’s musicplayer first)
  Here’s a link to some Ghanaian info:

  
  

  Rachel’s Update Link

  
  

  more from jimmish later
  
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  “…this good news of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations…”
  (from Mt 24:14)
  

  
  

   

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