Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Moving!
So I've started a website in a group with Nate's family. It is more in line with what we need with ministry updates, so anyone interested in our ministry progress check it out at ennsfamily.info
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Just not time
This blog was great during school, and definately during jungle camp. But right now, we are focusing on partnership development (building a team to hold us up in prayer, or financially) and so all our info will be relayed through our prayer letter. If you wish to receive that letter let us know, and we can mail or email it.
Although time is not in our favor right now, when we embark on our Indonesian adventure I will be planning to post most of our pictures and adventures on here, so stay tuned for our debut in April/may 2011! =)
nateandtash@hotmail.com
Although time is not in our favor right now, when we embark on our Indonesian adventure I will be planning to post most of our pictures and adventures on here, so stay tuned for our debut in April/may 2011! =)
nateandtash@hotmail.com
Thursday, December 10, 2009
3 out of 4 Semesters Done
Today was our last day in the live language practibum and we had to say goodbye to Khady. We really became attached to her and will definately plan on visting her next semester.
This is khady in the middle and Darcy, our teacher for this practicum to the left.
I made a cake for the occasion. It says 'thank-you' in Wolof with the senegal flag. It was actually a lot of fun!
We ushered in December with our new tradition (oxymoron) of Gingerbread house making.
Tomorrow we drive to London for the weekend with Nate's sister and then fly to Saskatchewan on Sunday morning!!!!!! Hello -36
This is khady in the middle and Darcy, our teacher for this practicum to the left.
I made a cake for the occasion. It says 'thank-you' in Wolof with the senegal flag. It was actually a lot of fun!
We ushered in December with our new tradition (oxymoron) of Gingerbread house making.
Tomorrow we drive to London for the weekend with Nate's sister and then fly to Saskatchewan on Sunday morning!!!!!! Hello -36
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Dreaming of a White Christmas
It has definately been a busy few months, but I'll try and be better at updating on here. That is if anyone is interested. We are... well Nate is more faithful in putting together the monthly 'prayer letters' so if you're not getting one of those and would like to it's definately more frequent =)
We had our first snow today and it stayed for most of the day, but now is gone and no more is coming for a few days. I never fully understood the song 'i'm DREAMING of a white Christmas.
Anyway, we have begun a language and culture learning practicum. For the first two weeks we were in class, with lectures about how to do “Culture and Language Acquisition”. Basically how to live in such a way that you are involved in people’s lives, building relationships, sharing experiences with them, and using those shared experiences to learn language and culture.
This is our language helper Khady and her family as we eat in the traditional senegalese way. Khady is teaching us Wolof which is a trade language in senegal. We've had a blast with here and will miss her when this course is done in a couple weeks.
We are also getting ready to head home to Saskatchewan for Christmas!!! We are quite excited and counting down the days. We also will get to see Steve and Penny (Nate's brother and sister in law) who are in Indonesia as they come back for a short break.
Canoe trip in fall.
Mom & Dad visit! We went to a corn maze and it was much better than you would think! ( sorry mom & Dad, that's the only pic I could find =)
We had our first snow today and it stayed for most of the day, but now is gone and no more is coming for a few days. I never fully understood the song 'i'm DREAMING of a white Christmas.
Anyway, we have begun a language and culture learning practicum. For the first two weeks we were in class, with lectures about how to do “Culture and Language Acquisition”. Basically how to live in such a way that you are involved in people’s lives, building relationships, sharing experiences with them, and using those shared experiences to learn language and culture.
This is our language helper Khady and her family as we eat in the traditional senegalese way. Khady is teaching us Wolof which is a trade language in senegal. We've had a blast with here and will miss her when this course is done in a couple weeks.
We are also getting ready to head home to Saskatchewan for Christmas!!! We are quite excited and counting down the days. We also will get to see Steve and Penny (Nate's brother and sister in law) who are in Indonesia as they come back for a short break.
Canoe trip in fall.
Mom & Dad visit! We went to a corn maze and it was much better than you would think! ( sorry mom & Dad, that's the only pic I could find =)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Summer is still holdin on
It feels almost lucky to be feeling like 31 degrees outside right now.
Since the Tornado we spent about a week cleaning up the campus and also helping out in town to get it back to near the way it was. Since then our work detail group has been working on rebuilding the bridge at the entrance to New Tribes, which has to be done by the end of September, the extent of our building permit.
In class we are now 3/4 done sounds & symbols or Phonetics. It is a study on different sounds the mouth can make, how we make those sounds, and symbols to represent them. This will be helpful in language learning in a tribe that does not have literacy and therefore we have to make an alphabet for them. It is a difficult but also enjoyable class. Nate and I now know we are not tone deaf!
Next week we will be starting our CLAware (Culture Language Aquisition) program orientation where we learn how to use this software to help us better record the culture and, you guessed it, language of the tribe we will be in.
Next week is also the annual canoe trip for us students. It's an afternoon going down the Saugeen River which is beatiful and really fun.
The latest news about Indonesia for us is that we have started contact with the field. This is the application stage where we send them the evaluations of us from the staff last year and they decide if we fit their field. After some papers are passed around our status will be changed to 'enroute' to Indonesia. They have 3 openings during the year for people to come and start language study, which are April, July, or November. This is an exciting step for us but also a bit scary. Please be praying for us as we move forward, to find our strength and courage in Christ and also for the field to accept us.
I do apologize about the lack of pictures in this one. I will take more for the next update.
We love to hear from you guys, so email us! nateandtash@hotmail.com
Since the Tornado we spent about a week cleaning up the campus and also helping out in town to get it back to near the way it was. Since then our work detail group has been working on rebuilding the bridge at the entrance to New Tribes, which has to be done by the end of September, the extent of our building permit.
In class we are now 3/4 done sounds & symbols or Phonetics. It is a study on different sounds the mouth can make, how we make those sounds, and symbols to represent them. This will be helpful in language learning in a tribe that does not have literacy and therefore we have to make an alphabet for them. It is a difficult but also enjoyable class. Nate and I now know we are not tone deaf!
Next week we will be starting our CLAware (Culture Language Aquisition) program orientation where we learn how to use this software to help us better record the culture and, you guessed it, language of the tribe we will be in.
Next week is also the annual canoe trip for us students. It's an afternoon going down the Saugeen River which is beatiful and really fun.
The latest news about Indonesia for us is that we have started contact with the field. This is the application stage where we send them the evaluations of us from the staff last year and they decide if we fit their field. After some papers are passed around our status will be changed to 'enroute' to Indonesia. They have 3 openings during the year for people to come and start language study, which are April, July, or November. This is an exciting step for us but also a bit scary. Please be praying for us as we move forward, to find our strength and courage in Christ and also for the field to accept us.
I do apologize about the lack of pictures in this one. I will take more for the next update.
We love to hear from you guys, so email us! nateandtash@hotmail.com
Saturday, August 22, 2009
A windy day in Durham!
On Thursday a tornado came through Southern ontario and the North end of NTMC and the East Side of Durham. Damage on Campus was great, but the town got the worst of it with stores and houses that lost roofs, walls, etc. One boy in town was killed and many injured in that area. But I can only tell what I've heard from others about what has happened in town as we have not been allowed to go into town which is the only way out of campus. (FIRST PHOTO BEFORE STORM
)On Campus the academy got it worst with all the shingles ripped off the roof and siding on parts taken off. 
It poured shortly after the tornado came through so they couldn't get much of the roof covered with tarp before which caused damage. Before we weren't able to see into durham from our property but as you can see above the trees between us are down and there are buildings visible in the background. 
One count was 36 trees down on Campus.
We spent all of Friday cleaning up but were greatly blessed with many who came from the surrounding churches and communities to help. We also had a large work group from ohio who had come for the week to do some maintenance and decided to stay longer to help. We wouldn't be half as far without them. They also supplied us with lunch and another couple from a church nearby supplied supper.
Although there was one staff member's car fallen on, the trees fell every which way but not on people, and only one home slightly damaged. God still had his hand in this disaster.
Baby Birds found scattered along the ground. To the right a building in town.
)On Campus the academy got it worst with all the shingles ripped off the roof and siding on parts taken off. 
It poured shortly after the tornado came through so they couldn't get much of the roof covered with tarp before which caused damage. Before we weren't able to see into durham from our property but as you can see above the trees between us are down and there are buildings visible in the background. 
One count was 36 trees down on Campus.
We spent all of Friday cleaning up but were greatly blessed with many who came from the surrounding churches and communities to help. We also had a large work group from ohio who had come for the week to do some maintenance and decided to stay longer to help. We wouldn't be half as far without them. They also supplied us with lunch and another couple from a church nearby supplied supper.Although there was one staff member's car fallen on, the trees fell every which way but not on people, and only one home slightly damaged. God still had his hand in this disaster.
Baby Birds found scattered along the ground. To the right a building in town.
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