We get started...

Last week we booked the tickets for the outreach this fall. With a small team of 5 we wil follow the invitation of our friends and be two weeks in Nepal. Mostly in Lupra where Mendok's school is located, but also at the Shushma Koirala Hospital in Sankhu.
We also hope that some friends from the US will be added to our team.
So far we start with the preparations: setting a date for Mendoks surgery, to plan travels in Nepal, check for places to stay... we are thankful for all kinds of support!

Danyabat!

That means "thank you" in Nepali - thank you to everyone, that helped with the cake fundraising on Sunday at CC Siegen. Either by baking or buying a cake. It was a great encouragement for our small team. You sponsered almost a whole flight on Sunday. :-) This week we are going to book the flights, again we are a little late for that. We will get the last available flights, but everything fits: 5 flights left for booking and 5 people going to Nepal
What's next: getting in contact with interplast because of the second surgery date for Mendok, the detailed travel plans and preparing for the time at Mendok's school. 
We still need financial support. The flights in fall are more expensive, because it is one of the main travel seaosons to Nepal. The economic crisis also reached Nepal, namely with a little delay, but together with some political quarrels it is reason enough for the gas prices to rise. This makes travelling in the country more expensive, also.
But: if God opens a door, nothing and no one will be able to close it.

News from Jomsom

From an email a friend send to us who is in Jomsom right now:
"I got to meet Mendok's mother. She told me Mendok has joined school, and she is doing well. Her teeth have started growing and there are times wehn it hurts. But other then that there is no problem."
Bina, Mendok's mother, sends many greetings. This Sunday we will met with interested people to pray about the trip this coming fall and to plan more detailed.

Please pray for Nepal!

Compass direct, an organisation that's informing about persecution of Christians around the world, spreaded news, that Nepal is working on a new criminal code that will forbid evangelism. Please pray with us that this criminal code won't become a written law!
Pray with us, that we will redeem the time and be able to go to Nepal this fall. Right now we are praying for wisdom in getting the team together, for the finances and the schedule for the second surgery for Mendok.


Mendok and her family are doing good, by the way. Her headmaster wrote an email confirming his invitation for this coming fall. Please continue to pray for Mendok and her family!

An Evening in Nepal

We want to invite you to an evening in Nepal at the House of Hope, Hagener Straße 78, 57072 Siegen - if you are living in Germany. If not, please pray for this evening! We will give a report from our travel, show some great pictures and more than that inform about the ongoing of the Mendok Project.

Back in Germany

... and a little late with the update of this blog.
The first (main) surgery was last Monday; on Sunday there was a follow up surgery done. Today I got news from a Nepali friend that everything seemed to have gone well. He will contact me again if he knows if Mendok will need another follow up surgery tomorrow or not.
It is for sure that she will need a second surgery. And it is for sure as well, that we didn't go for her to Nepal the last time. The Mendok Project will be continued! If you received our newsletter, you got a climpse of our adventerous trip. Adventerous for the main reason that God opened a door for us widely. We got an invitation from Mendok's school to come back in fall and do some lessons there. We are so thankful for everything that God had done! The story is to be continued...

Two more days...

...and we are all excited! I just packed 40 bars of chocolate flight- and melting prooved together with all the other small presents for the Wiedenest missionaries. And while working on this, I just finished everything and packed my stuff also.
This picture is from last year; Roland on the left helped a lot initiating the Mendok Project. Sam and me (Dameria) have the great privilege to help to get it into practice.
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