Dear family & friends,

We have just said goodbye to my sister Martine and her friend Judith who came to visit us in Hawaii these past 2 ½ weeks. What a precious time it was to catch up with family and also for Hope to practice her Dutch. The girls taught her many new Dutch songs and spent hours reading books and playing games with her, so we miss them a lot now that they are gone.
During this time Jackson also came back from his trip to Mexico for the UofN workshop. Thank you so much for your prayers as he did not have any trouble crossing the border and getting back in. He had a very wonderful time in Mexico where he represented the Word by Heart ministry. As mentioned before Word by Heart is aimed at memorizing the scriptures word for word and then giving a live presentation of entire Bible books. Jackson has thus far memorized the Gospel of Mark, the book of Jonah and the book of Ruth and he is now continuing with Esther. Ultimately his vision is to memorize the entire bible and use this to train the former militants in Nigeria with the Word of God.
On his way to Mexico Jackson was in transit through LA where he applied for his Dutch multiple entry visa. However when he did his application they said that it was not likely he would get a multiple entry, but rather that he would get a 1 week visa and then have to re-apply for a new visa in Cameroon. In Cameroon this process takes an entire week and this would mean that with our original travel plans we would have to be separated as a family for between 4-5 weeks. So while in LA he decided not to go for the 1 week visa, but to withdraw his application. After prayerful consideration we felt that our value should be to travel as a family, except there is good reason not to. So with these new plans we have revised our travel schedule. We will now all be travelling to Cameroon mid October to visit our family and friends there and then receive the medical & water outreach team, then wait for the visa together. Then we will all travel to Nigeria for the Word by Heart training. After this we will arrive the Netherlands around November 25th for a 5 week visit with family and friends. We are actually very happy that we can stay together as a family and also that we can get our children familiar with the African nations we will be spending a great deal of time in, in the future.

The water & health care outreach is in full preparation. There are 3 that have already booked their tickets among which is our Pediatrician. We are going to be joining hands with medical professionals in Cameroon to run clinics, screenings and trainings in the villages. We will also be continuing the clean water project we started last year.
There are several ways you can get involved in this outreach October 30-November 11:
– Pray- for the team, our family, the people we will reach out to, the finances, equipment and supplies needed.
– Join- it is not to late to join the outreach, send us an e-mail thuisfrontja@gmail.com if you are interested!
– Give- support the outreach financially with specific donations for medicine, blood tests or for our family support.

As we are also preparing to travel to the Netherlands late November we would love to borrow things for our children. If you are able to lend us some of the following items for the 5 week period we will be there, also send an e-mail to thuisfrontja@gmail.com:
– Winter clothing for our girls (REJoyce size 74/80, Hope Shekinah size 104)
– Winter clothing for Anneke (size M), for Jackson (size M)
– Toys for the girls to play with (dolls, blocks, books etc)
– Play mat/box/walker/bouncy seat for REJoyce
– High chair for both girls (to eat at the table)
– Toddler table and chair for Hope to sit and play at
– Double stroller
– Toddler car seat
– Baby bath
– Etc.
All items will be returned after we leave so it is good to mark them with your name!
Last of all we are really having a challenge in our finances and would appreciate your donations towards our plane tickets, visa and monthly expenditures. Visit the “Donate Now” page to learn how to give with tax deduction.
For our time in the Netherlands we could also use gifts in kind such as: Coupons for family activities such as going to the zoo, the swimming pool etc. Food for us and the children.
Thank you so much for your friendship, your prayers and support. We look forward to be able to meeting some of you in person when we travel!

Blessings, The Ndecheck Family.

Dear Family and Friends,

Greetings and blessings to you all!
What a news to hear in the Netherlands we are going to have a King! I must say I’m a bit sad I won’t be able to be there for the historic occasion as these changes don’t happen very often. To do my own little celebration here, was grateful I recently received a special delivery from the Netherlands including dark chocolate spread, dropjes and stroopwafels! Yes besides family and friends it is the Dutch food I miss the most and these little things make a huge difference!

Here things are going really well, though busy.
I was responsible for coordinating 3 big and 2 small meetings that happened back to back in the past 10 days. These meetings happen once or twice a year. Some of the +/- 100 guests that came are friends and advisers of Loren & Darlene, representatives from other mission organizations and other YWAM leaders. I had never organized them by myself before and I learnt so much in doing so. First of all the preparation time was the busiest one, trying to get all the logistics planned out and all the materials organized. Then trying to get the manpower to actually run the events. I was blessed there was a hospitality team that took care of all the food as those kind of tasks are not possible for me to do while taking care of Hope. So I was mostly making lists, updating itineraries, schedules and so forth. It was a lot of fun though and Hope enjoyed meeting a lot of new people. Now I’m trying to catch up on regular office activities like e-mails as I didn’t do any of that during the meetings.

Jackson has been progressing so rapidly in memorizing the Gospel of Mark. He has already done several presentations of this where he will present a portion of the Gospel. At the end of this month his final assignment is to present the Gospel in a one hour presentation. All of this is verbatim (word by word literally). They don’t add anything and don’t use their own language, but they make it sound like it is their own words as they have mastered the text over the past weeks. As it probably won’t be hard to imagine, Jackson is really good at this as he is such an animated story teller with such a captivating voice. When we go for a walk to the supermarket (half an hour) he will practice on the way there and back. One time he was brushing his shoulders so I thought he had walked under something dirty. He said, that “no, it’s part of the roof that came down when the four friends lowered the paralyzed man in front of Jesus”. All I can say is I hope you will get an opportunity to hear him present this. Personally I took the seminar his school runs and I was amazed at how quickly you learn the memorization technique on a passage of scripture. I still haven’t forgotten what I memorized in the seminar and I have also tried to apply it to a different portion of scripture and it works! It comes down to experiencing the event in front of your eyes and then telling what you saw.

Hope Shekinah is already 17 months old and talking a lot now. She not only is able to communicate in Ngie, Dutch and English, but she also responds to the Korean children on campus in Korean. She loves her friends and knows many of their names now also. She has started praying before meals and will talk a lot of words in baby language and then say “Amen”. She enjoys this so much we often end up praying at least 2-3 times before we eat .

The pregnancy is going well, 25 weeks already! I had a little bit of a scare last week when I had a persistent cramp/pain in my calf muscle for several days. The doctor ended up sending me for an ultrasound to make sure it wasn’t a blood clot and thankfully it wasn’t! Now I don’t feel that pain anymore and am taking some magnesium supplements and bananas to keep the cramping down.

Thank you so much for all your love and support!

Blessings,

Jackson, Anneke, Hope and …

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