"We never know the love of our parents until we become parents ourselves." -Henry Ward Beecher

Our friend Sunny came over to our house on Saturday to watch Kate for a couple of hours. It was the first time in a long time that Dave and I went somewhere alone and so we thought we'd make a date out of it. We ran some errands and stopped and got something to eat while we were out. We were sitting across from each other in what used to be our favorite restaurant, and the funniest thing happened... we didn't really know what to say to each other. After an awkward silence, Dave asked me, "What did we use to talk about before our baby was born?" I really couldn't answer him very well. I guess I feel that way about this blog too, I don't really know what else to talk about besides Kate. I'll work on it though.

Everyone told us that our lives would never be the same once she was born, and it really is very true. Dave goes to the office most days for extended periods of time and has responsibilities here in this base as well as another project that is going on with some leaders in this city, and so his days are varied and usually quite full. These days my main responsibility is to take care of our baby and there is great satisfaction in that for me. She just turned 4 months old on Saturday and it seems as if the days and weeks are flying by. Once she is 6 months old, I will be more involved with different things here, but I don't want to travel around much with her now. I'm enjoying this season of life and well aware that she won't always be this age. It's so neat to see how she daily grows and learns. Dave and I think that her hair grows longer every night, it seems to be getting taller and taller.

Here's a quick update on what's going on here. The Lecture Phase of the July Discipleship Training School is nearing the end and soon all 20+ students and staff will be going on outreach. Our School of Frontier Missions will be starting next month and so far has a wide mix of tribes and nations. We usually have mostly people from the Northeast, but this one will have people from America, Switzerland, New Zealand, as well as others from different parts of India. The House of Prayer here has been doing a lot of ministry in a slum area and has been seeing quite a few people coming to the Lord. Right now they have been working with another ministry to try and see a church planted there. They've been trying to figure out what to do as there isn't a home or meeting place in that area to accomodate all of them and they are looking for a hall or building to rent.

We are thankful for the neat people that are here that we get to walk and learn with.