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DC Cherry Blossoms- 36 weeks

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GoCorps is Growing…. Oh and Wall Art

Tonight, Paul and I were reflecting on the new growth that is taking place in our lives right now. Not only is baby VDW days (hopefully) away from coming into this world, but GoCorps is growing as well with three new full time staff and a new set of goers that are in the final stages of the interview/assessment phase.  By my due date, we hope to have 15-20, twenty somethings confirmed to join us in May at GO Week to be equipped to raise their support and head to some of the hardest places on our planet to bring the good news of the Gospel. We’ve got a lot of new people to be responsible for these days and we’re excited and humbled at the opportunity to steward these people well. We covet your prayers as we mobilize our new stateside staff and these goers.

On a side note, Paul fell into a sweet deal on a collectors item- a Fat Tire bike.  These bikes are given to Fat Tire employees, and somehow this one found it’s way to the east coast and onto Craig’s List. He couldn’t resist spending some of his hard saved fun money on this fun bike, and since it is too fun to put into a garage or storage area, we had to find a good place to prominently display it. Now our guests can admire this piece of art as they slumber in our guest room/office. Check out Paul’s other new baby:

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14 Days and Counting….

14 days….the amount of days until the date that our little baby has been deemed due to arrive into this world. Of course we know that we could deliver today or we could be pregnant for another month (please, no!), but April 19th is the date we have been looking towards to get all of our “to do’s” done because of course, life ends when you have a baby :)

Recently we were looking back at all of our “baby bump” pics and laughed about how much we THOUGHT I was showing.  We thought we’d share.

OBX- 8 weeks

October 2011- 15 weeks

In Istanbul- 21 weeks

Our work and play trip to Tucson, AZ: 28 weeks

Sisters pregnant together! 31 weeks

Leap year photo that I entered into a contest and won for: 33 weeks

DC Cherry Blossoms- 36 weeks

New GoCorps Video

In our last newsletter, we referenced our new GoCorps video but we forgot to include a link to it.  Here it is… enjoy!

2011 in review

Over the weekend, WordPress sent us a summary of our blog over the last year.  You and I are well aware that we have been slackers, especially this fall, but hey, we’ve had some distractions with Baby Werf in the way!  It’s fun to see though how these modern means of communication connect us to the world and we look forward to how these connections will grow and flourish in 2012. Happy New Year!

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,700 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 45 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

More on GoCorps… Year 3 Begins

It’s hard to believe that GoCorps has started year 3.  In late August, seven of the second team of GoCorps goers arrived at their overseas placement for the first time!  Each of them graduated in May, and raised ALL of their support in our expedited process this summer.  We couldn’t be more excited for them and for the teams and locations they’re heading to – Cambodia and the Middle East!  The rest of our this year’s goers (3 more) will be heading out after some intensive training this Fall.  We’ll be sure to keep you updated!  If you are interested in tracking with the Cambodia team, check out this webpage that lists each of the goers with links to their blogs. We promise you will be blessed as you read what they are learning and experiencing while they are on the field.

To kick off year 3, 10 of our partnering organizations gathered together to plan and dream about how God wanted to use this partnership to advance His purposes amongst the least reached.  We’ll had 25 reps from our partnering organizations and campuses attend.  Please continue praying for fruitful partnership, wisdom and discernment as we to work towards mobilizing the class of 2012.

Our vision for year 3 is to see at least 40 new goers sent out by the Fall of 2012.  Over the last year, we’ve grown and deepened our campus partnerships, and so we believe that we will see God raise up these workers to serve in the hard to reach places that we are sending goers to; however, we also are keenly aware of the myriad of distractions and the difficulties and barriers that one encounters as their pursuing the path to serve globally after graduation.  We are thankful that you are partnering with us as we go after this vision in 2011-12.  We look forward to keeping you updated along the way!
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