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Prayer Letter/Ministry Update

Dear Friends, Sept 2009

School has now started for all students in the area. Switzerland, France and Germany have different school schedules so sometimes it’s hard to keep track of which students start when. Our students at Black Forest Academy start at yet a different time than the others. They have more of a US school schedule.

Cultural Tidbits
Imagine my shock when I first came here, knowing that I was in a country that was certainly not third world. As I traveled along the highway, looking out the window, my eyes fell upon a slum area! Wait! Where am I again? I later learned I was not looking at slums but a schrebergarten (pronounced shray-burr-gart-en). The other day, I was walking and came across a schrebergarten that I didn’t know was even near me. This is an area of many small garden plots with miniature houses on each plot, rented by different people. Many German cities and towns have these “garden ghettos” just outside their limits. They are also found in Austria and Switzerland. As is typical in Germany, there is a whole rulebook on these gardens that regulate how big the small garden is allowed to be. Each schrebergarten has a separate rulebook dictating everything from exact dimensions, color and style of the shack to when you’re allowed to mow the lawn or use other noisy gardening tools. In summer, you’ll find families spending the day at their garden, grilling out and relaxing while the kids play on their swing sets. Unkempt gardens are frowned upon!

Work
After my home assignment, it’s time for my boss and his wife to go on their home assignment. For the next six months, they’ll be in the States except for a month where my boss will be coming back to travel to the fields. Pray for them as they are in the States and for John as he travels in October. He has a busy schedule.

Language
After my tutor’s vacation to Tuscany the past two weeks, we are back meeting together again. We are gearing up here in Germany for an election so we were discussing that. It’s kind of rough working through those large words like proportional representation which is one word in German!

Various
October will be a bit busy for me in traveling. John comes back in October and the day after I take him to the airport in the beginning of the month for him to start his traveling around the region, I leave for Paris. The long weekend there will hopefully not be busy, but relaxing. The exciting thing about that, besides that it’s Paris, is that I’m taking Lisa, my Swiss friend, with me. I am so looking forward to our time together. Would you pray with me that as we have fun and relax together that we would have some excellent opportunities for conversation about the Lord.

A week after I get back from Paris, I will be attending the Germany Field Forum (FF) which will be near Hamburg. This is a time when all the workers in Germany get together for a retreat with a speaker from the States. After FF, I’ll be going to Mannheim to do paperwork and what is necessary for me to be able to legally sign on things for our mission.

November brings once again my visa renewal. Hopefully, this will go smoother than last time! Please pray about that.

One of the things that I’ve wanted to do is soak in the Word of God. Reading it is something that I definitely do, but I now have the Bible on CD. I can put it on and listen and don’t need to weary my eyes any more than they are after working on a computer all day! (That sounds like I’m getting older!) Even when I’m not in the room where the CD player is or doing other things, it fills the atmosphere and I love that. Sometimes, I’ll hear something that sticks out to me so later I can go and study it more. Fun times!

Thanks for praying.
Valary

Burgunderstr. 2
79395 Neuenburg-Steinenstadt
Germany

Email: rivergirl007@hotmail.com
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Phone (from the States): 011.49.7635.82.77.55

Ways you can give:

1.To the Great Commission Fund of the C&MA
2.“Valary Mullenix-outfit fund”
3.“Valary Mullenix – work”
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Prayer Requests/Answers to Prayer

Prayer Requests
1.Pray for my time with Lisa, who has yet to come into relationship with the Lord. Pray for safety as we are out and about.
2.Pray for safety as I drive to Mannheim in October and then as we travel to Hamburg and back for Field Forum.
3.Pray that my visa experience will be quick and easy and that there will be no issues like last time.

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