We're Getting Married!

Jedidiah proposed on the Fourth of July and we are planning a New Year's Eve wedding in Cincinnati!
I feel so incredibly blessed that the Lord brought us together and we are looking forward to starting our lives together!
Thank you all for your love and support! I will not be posting quite as much in the following months, but I'm back in the states if you want to give me a call!

Love,
Katie

Happy Father's Day!

I have the best dad in the entire world!
I love you big as the world, Daddy!

Love,
Kates

Hello, Ohio

Hello everyone!

Thank you so much for your well-wishes and prayers as I made the huge move from Monterrey to Ohio. I'm doing well back in the States, still getting settled, which takes a bit longer since I need to spend excessive time with precious friends and family. Hopefully my computer will be fixed very soon so that I can post pictures from my last few weeks in Mexico.

Love to all,
K.

and then i fell down...

lately i've been having a bit of trouble keeping things together.

my vonage phone broke.
i dropped my cell in a puddle.
i cracked the screen on my macbook pro.
my car isn't running.

we went to matacanes (more on this later) and i fell down about 100 times AND contracted poison ivy. :)

so.
i'm sorry that i haven't posted lately.
i'm moving to ohio on june 1 and hopefully the computer situation will be solved in a week after that.

thanks for your prayers and support as i'm finishing my time here in monterrey!

blessings,
k.

A blessing

Congratulations to my friend who gave birth to a healthy baby boy Sunday afternoon. He weighs about 5 pounds and has lots of beautiful black hair. Both mother and baby are doing fine.

Please pray for this family with me. She is just 18 years old and lost her boyfriend in a car accident about three months ago.

Isaiah 49:16
"See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands..."

Happy Birthday Emma!

Emma turned 10 on Sunday and we celebrated her birthday at school yesterday. My first trip to Monterrey was in April of 1998 when Beth was pregnant with Emma. I wish I had a picture to post of me holding her as a baby, but I don't have any digital pictures from '98. It was the stone age, remember?

Thank You Calvary Christian!

I want to give special thanks to John Wallace and the Calvary Christian crew for putting on a show for us, getting our students involved, and faithfully providing our curriculum each year. We appreciate you so much!

Happy Six Months, Jedidiah

Happy Staff Picture

Home again, home again...

Hi Friends!

I just got back to Mexico after ten days in Cincinnati and Columbus. It was quite a whirlwind and I'm excited to spend more time with loved ones in Ohio. I was able to see my parents, Mary and Ryan, Will and Jackie, and their daughters, Claire and Eva, my Mimi and Papaw, and some wonderful friends. I got to dance with my nieces, watch lots of basketball (I'm sad about my Muskies!), cheer the Crew on to victory in their season opener against Toronto, hang out with Jedidiah's mom who came in from Connecticut, and hear some great live music!



Many of you know this, but I am moving back to Ohio on June 2 and will no longer be on staff with Back2Back Mexico. I feel like God has called me back to the states to work toward my Masters in Education and spend more time with my family. This was an incredibly difficult decision; I love my life here in Monterrey and cannot imagine doing anything else. I smile when I think that the first job I ever had was my dream job. I feel so grateful to have been a part of this ministry and I know it will always hold a special place in my heart... and hopefully my future!

All this to say, I'm still here for two months, and I'm excited to make the most of my time with friends, students, jovenes, and groups. I'd love prayer for my future- I'm still not sure where/when I'm going to school or where I will work. I feel a little bit like Abraham when God told him to leave, he left, not knowing the future. I hope that, like him, I will be faithful and obedient to God's calling.

Love,
Katie