Mini Update

Some of these things may be slightly redundant... This is copied from an update email that was sent out.

Thought we'd send out an update as to what is going on with us and our family!

Caleb is doing Awesome! (*I knew I had to start with him!!) He finished up the 1st grade at Dexter Elementary in Cordova. He had some big adjustments to go through... being in classes of 5 to a class of 18. He did well once he got a bit settled. Very true to his name: Strong and Courageous!! He played Soccer for the Y and Loved it! He was a STAR on the Orange Tigers team! Amazing how much skill he learned in Brazil! We also started going to the Chinese Baptist Church on Friday nights for Awanas (and adult Bible Study). It was a great experience. Caleb's pediatrician was our adult teacher, and the kids program was really great! We couldn't go in May-June because of Soccer, but are very excited to start back in August. He has had the Best Summer at the YMCA, swimming every day, playing basketball, and playing!! He has been loving it! He has been growing like a weed!!! Lost some teeth, getting some more in and all that fun stuff! He will start the SECOND GRADE... the Second Grade... that's serious! That's like the NEXT LEVEL.. I told him he now has to start SHRINKING in age instead of growing. Please pray for him to get adjusted back to school quickly and that his teacher is full of Grace! He is also looking forward to playing Soccer again this fall, and maybe some Basketball this winter.

Chris is also doing Awesome! He is so happy to be working for NICS in a Godly environment. He really loves the people he works with!! He has been continuing all his duties from Brasilia International school since we arrived back home!!! It has been very difficult and challenging in many ways, but he is very thankful that the Lord was able to use him during this time of transition for the school! The Lord has provided a new business manager for BIS that will be going to Brasilia in August, Lord willing! We are praying there are no visa issues. It is not known at this time if he will be completely "hands-off" of the BIS stuff for this fall. Please pray for this issue. Chris has not been able to have full closure. Chris also finished up his final Undergrad classes this past June and He GRADUATED!!! I am so proud of his patience and endurance through ALL!! And now to the next school... Chris is SO COMPLETELY READY to start School!!! He will be starting Seminary in August for his Masters in Christian Education!! He loves youth, and he feels the Lord confirm His calling on his life almost daily. He knows that the Lord will use him as a powerful vessel for HIS Message of Freedom and Salvation to youth FAR and WIDE!!! We don't know what the Lord will do with all of this... but we wait in Grateful Expectation for what HE will do!! Chris is also training again for another marathon! The St. Jude marathon will be December 4th. He's already starting to lose his toenails again and blisters upon blisters. I love to watch him get so determined and be able to persevere! You were right, DAD... He is a "PERSISTENT" one!! :)

I (Beverly :) am also doing well! I was graciously allowed to return to my previous job as a Research Nurse at the West Clinic. I truly love my job, my boss, and the organization I work for. I love building relationships with my patients and being able to "encourage, as I have been encouraged" as these brave souls encounter this daily fight with Cancer. I thank the Lord for his Blessing of Cancer in my life to be able to minister to them. I know, full well, that I could not do this job without a personal LIVING relationship with the Savior, the Healer, and the Protector! To be able to say that Death is NOT Defeat, nor is it the End. Please pray for my boldness to share the Gospel at my job and to be an encourager. While Chris is preparing and training for the marathon, I'm trying to lose weight and get healthier also. I LOVE plugging in my John Piper as I pound away at the treadmill. Not quite as often as I'd wish, but I have found so much encouragement and rekindled fire listening to Piper! His preaching just pounds out the Truth, unashamedly and not worried about being Politically correct! He always points straight to the Heart of Jesus and to a new realization about Himself!!

My Mom is doing well! Thank you so much to all of you for praying for her and asking about her frequently! She continues on chemo, but is tolerating it very well! She's down about a week or so after chemo, but has been able to continue to lead her Ladies Bible Study on Tuesday nights. She is such a blessing to all of those sweet ladies. She loves teaching in any form, but teaching the WORD is something she does with PASSION!! The church has really rallied behind them and is supporting them! They bring weekly and sometimes daily food and sweets! Their presence really brings joy to my parents. Dad is doing great, also. He has turned into Mr. Super Helper!! It's been so neat to see him adapting and growing into their new routines. He is a Chuck Missler SUPER-FANATIC! Truly though... you guys gotten listen to his "Learn the Bible in 24 hours". He's a teacher, not a preacher, and my dad Loves him. You can check out Missler on www.BlueLetterBible.org (just for you, dad!)

We had an awesome time on vacation recently. We went to North Carolina to visit Casey & Megan, our friends from Brasilia that are now in Peru. It was so great to see them! They have been dear friends for a long time! Please pray for them as they head back for another year in Peru.

BIS will now be led by Jeff Lancaster, a dear friend and an awesome Man of God. Please pray for him and the new Admin team as they prepare to lead this next year. Enrollment is in desperate need of increasing!! Please pray that the Lord will open the flood gates of the international community in Brasilia to come to a place of LIVING WATER that can Refresh even the driest soul. Please pray!!! One of our dearest, most special Pakistani families had a tragedy recently. Their father died after some heart complications. This Muslim family held 4 children of whom we were EXTREMELY close! The Mother would even babysit Caleb for us on in-service days. Our greatest prayer is that in this time of urgent need, they were able to Taste and See the Awesome Comforting Power of JESUS in our BIS Staff. Please pray for them, and "MY GIRLS" as they have returned to Pakistan last week to take the body home. The oldest son is in England at college and was so sad to not have seen his dad before he passed. We really really love this family... please petition the Father for their lives!!

So that's a little update on us. We would love to hear from you, and would love to get together with those we haven't seen since we've been back.

The Lord is so Faithful. He loves us so dearly. He is Good!!

So Much Love to you all!!
~Beverly - for the FRYAR FOUR!!! :)

3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 5who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. I Peter 1:3-9