Transitions...

September marks a huge transition for our family. Michelle has now entered college in Ft. Collins, CO at the Dayspring Center for Christian Studies (www.dayspringcenter.org)
She is following in her sister’s footsteps living in the same dorm where Melinda lived with around 30 other Christian students. Michelle has adjusted well and feels “at home”. She has most of her classes there in her building with Christian professors as well as walking across the CSU campus to a class there. She is enjoying her classes and teachers. Michelle has made friends both within her dorm as well as through church and campus ministries like Navigators.
Thank you so much for your prayers for her adjustment. Please pray for God’s direction in how best to invest her time and energies.

Melinda is also enjoying her third year at Rivendell College (www.rivendellcollege.org) in Boulder. She likes her classes and has been working on lining up an internship in youth ministry with a church in the area. Melinda has a good roommate and has lots of friends and activities.
We have been visiting Colorado in order to help both girls make the transition into college and visit our parents. We are also visiting some of our supporting churches each weekend along with continuing our work with LATN via email and internet. We are easing into the empty nest, but with the possibility of an hour drive, we can still see the girls and talk with them in person. When we return to Costa Rica, the full effects will become much more pronounced and we will miss them. Thank the Lord for email and telephones that keep us in touch. Pray that this will be a fruitful season for us and that we will continue to grow and become “all that Christ saved us for.” Pray too, that we will have wisdom as parents of grown children who are also in the process of maturing into adulthood.