This update was written on monday, meantime Anneke and Jackson’s daughter is born. Her name is Hope Shekinah Ndecheck.

Dear family and friends,

Today was the first day of the last University quarter of 2011. About 570 students including their children and 300+ staff gathered together for an amazing time of worship this morning. It was amazing to see over 42 different nations represented, all praising the Lord together. I was happy to be a part of this, however I couldn’t stand on my feet the whole time because the baby is getting more and more heavy in my stomach.

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Dear family and friends,

The past two weeks have been an amazing time here on the campus as about 600 people gathered from around the world for the University of the Nations (UofN) workshop. This is an event that happens every two years where leaders within the UofN gather together to receive from the Lord impartation as we discuss direction and vision for the future. For Jackson and myself this was the first UofN workshop we were a part of and it was truly a special time. There was spiritual impartation in the daily devotionals on Colossians, we built relationships with a lot of wonderful new people and then there was also a lot of practical information that we received. One of those things was a module I attended on how to develop new curriculum, which is particularly useful in our preparation for the UofN in Calabar!

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