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Gambles Newsletter                                    10/02/21                               Volume 6, Issue 6 serving Cambodia through engineering design and discipleship Pix 1.  Chad in Mexico helping the director there. 2.  One of Chad's favorite activities: boat rides! 3.  Dropping Miriam off at university for the first time!   4. We went to San Francisco for our 27th anniversary. 5. We've been practicing taking our tandem apart and putting in back together.  $5 Starbucks gift card for the first person who can tell us where we're biking these next 2 weeks.   6.  Us, on our tandem, near Donner Lake.    Visiting... Ah... home!  Being back in our home country has allowed us so many opportunities to visit with various people.  One of our main challenges while living overseas is missing out on all the family holidays, birthdays and special events.  We have been making up for lost time by spending time with parents, aunts, siblings and other extended family members.  We are so grateful to be close enough to help with things like building a deck, changing the oil, processing financial documents, and to attend volleyball tournaments, and motocross races!   Mexico... In August, Chad had the privilege of visiting Ensenada Mexico, to join a team scouting for the new EMI office in that location.  In addition to eating authentic and delicious Mexican food every day (SO AMAZING!!!), he got to meet with the country director, Jorge, and his team.  It was encouraging to visit with pastors, ministry leaders and deans of architectural schools who are all excited for EMI to launch an office in this area.  Chad came away with great optimism for this office as it will be another one launched by a local national.  This brings much greater clarity to the needs of the local design community as well as how EMI's core values of Design, Discipleship and Diversity can work in this context.     Middle East... In September, Chad was able to visit the EMI office in North Africa.  This was his first international office visit as a Regional Director!  Ideally, he will travel to each office at least once a year, and now after 18 months as Regional Director, he was finally able to travel again.  It was so encouraging to see the staff, hear their stories and experience what God is doing in the office.  While there, he was able to encourage and coach two young couples who will be expatriating from their home country in the Middle East for 3 months to 3 years.  He was also able to sit with the leadership team and join them in planning and praying for the future of the office.  Here was a brief word of encouragement from the office director after he left: I really appreciate your time, care, wisdom, encouragement, coaching, etc.. It is an incredible blessing to me, and to our office.  Thank you so much for your partnership as we continue our ministry from our home country!  We could not do this without your prayers and financial support!   Please pray for EMI as we wrestle with big challenges as we look to the future.  The missions world is changing and we are trying to be proactive and respond appropriately.     For our 2 week bike trip from Augusta, ME to Hartford, CT.  "No flatties, no crashies and no whammies!" as Ryan VanDuzer likes to say.  And great fall colors!  And little to no rain.  And protection.    Next month, brings Chad's next trip.  This time to Colorado Springs where he will get to build relationship with the people from the EMI Global Office who work in the US.  Pray for Shanthi and Moses as they are home and separated from Chad.   Previous Requests:   Rebuilding community after being away for years is hard.  Please pray that we would quickly connect with a diverse and strong community.   - We have recently started working with Arab immigrants and are finding it a great way to love our neighbor as well as be with a diverse group of people. We're also both getting to serve in our home church: Harvest - Shanthi in the nursery and Chad as an usher.  In addition we're helping with the food closet monthly.   Miriam has just bought a car!  Please pray that it would serve her well for years to come!  - Miriam has a little fright when her car didn't start after work, but God, in his provision, helped her get back on the road again with the kindness of a stranger and a facetime call with her dad.   From the Bookshelf Chad loves reading and always has a few books in progress.  Here is a quote from his recent reading   "The truth is that each ethnicity reflects a unique aspect of God's image...[we falsely] believe that the ultimate goal should be seeing the world without color, [but] Paul emphasized that unity can be found in diversity.  We all have been given different gifts; we all are different parts of the same body."  ― Latasha Morrison, Be The Bridge, 2019 Blog Facebook Email Give Copyright © 2021 All rights reserved. unsubscribe    update subscription preferences

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