12/31/08
Feliz 2009 + Fotos!!!!
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12/9/08
Relato de Dezembro
THANKSGIVING

PICNIC NA PRAIA

Bem, não vou aborrecer vocês para explicar sobre esta festa tipicamente holandês, vamos dizer que Sinterklaas é um tipo de Papai Noel, mas diferente... Nós celebramos este dia no 5 de Dezembro e nós nos juntamos com 6 holandeses e 2 brasileiros (os maridos). Mudamos a nossa sala de estar para a varanda e tivemos um tempo maravilhoso!!!Agora será que Papai Noel também vai passar por aqui ainda??

EFRAIM USA O BANHEIRO!!!!Na carta informativa pode ler mais sobre as aventuras diárias de Efraim. Apesar de que ele já tem 2,5 ele ainda não está falando muito, talvez porque estamos ensinando a ele duas línguas (holandês e português). Mas mesmo assim ele sabe mostrar o que ele quer muito bem, e ele realmente sabe MUITO bem o que ele QUER! Bem, ele aprende palavras novas todos os dias e gosta de repetir tudo, e adora cantar. Mas a notícia mais importante dele é que ele agora não usa mais fraldas durante o dia, isto faz uma grande diferença nas despesas (só tem mais idas e voltas para o banheiro...) Vou mostrar as últimas fotos dele. Os óculos de sol colorido ele ganhou na Escola Dominical quando aprendeu sobre o cego Bartimeu!
Com o calor daqui de Ceará nada melhor de que um picolé caseiro de acerola!

CONFERÊNCIA COM JAIME KEMP

No final do mês passado fomos para uma conferência com Jaime Kemp, escritor cristão muito conhecido pelos livros sobre casamento e educação de filhos. A gente ficou muito feliz pela oportunidade de participar e aprendemos muitas coisas. Também foi bom poder fazer algo como casal e investir em nosso casamento. Efraim passou a noite na base e também teve um tempo muito legal.

Para mais sobre o ministério de Melanie: http://vidanovafortaleza.blogspot.com/
Para mais sobre o ministério de Jander http://casademeupaibrasil.blogspot.com/

December Update - English
THANKSGIVING

PICKNICK ON THE BEACH

Well, I´m not going to bore you to explain what sinterklaas is, let´s just say it´s the Dutch version of Santaclaus but diferent, we celebrate it on the 5th of December and we came together with 6 Dutchies and 2 Brazilians (the hubbies...). We moved our livingroom furniture outside where we had a great time!!! Now we´re wondering if Santaclaus will come by as well....

EFRAIM IS POTTY TRAINED!!!In the newsletter you can read more about the daily adventures of Efraim. Inspite of him already being 2,5 years old, he´s still not speaking a lot, even though he can let us know very well what he wants, and he really DOES know what he wants! But well, he is learning new words every day, he likes to repeat everything, and he loves to sing. But the most important latest news on Efraims is that he is now potty trained during the day, that saves us a lot of money on diapers, (but now we have many trips going to the bathroom). Here are some of the latest pictures, these sunglasses he got at Sundayschool when they learned about he blind man who Jesus cured!
Right now the temperatures are very hot here, and nothing´s better than a home made fruit popsicles!!!

JAIME KEMP CONFERENCE

At the end of last month we were happy to go to a conference with Jaime Kemp, an international known christian writer of books about marriage and children. We were really happy to be able to go to the conference and we have learned a lot. Also it was good to be able to do something just the 2 of us. Efraim spend the night at the YWAM base and had a great time as well!

For more about Melanie ´s ministry: http://vidanovafortaleza.blogspot.com/
For more about Jander´s ministry: http://casademeupai.blogspot.com/

12/2/08
December update Nederlands
THANKSGIVING

PICKNICK OP HET STRAND

Jaja, zelf sinterklaas is bij ons langsgeweest in Brazilie!!!!! We waren met 6 nederlanders (Mirjam die hier werkt en haar zusje, Michiel werkt bij Jander en Renske & Adrian zijn hier als vrijwilligers) en 2 braziliaanse aanhang (Jander, en Junior, de man van Mirjam). We hadden onze zithoek naar buiten versleept naar de veranda waar we er een gezellig avondje van hebben gemaakt!!!! Zou de kerstman nu ook nog langskomen?

EFRAIM IS ZINDELIJK!!!In de nieuwsbrief kan je meer lezen over de streken die Efraim uithaalt, ondanks dat hij nu al bijna 2,5 is praat hij nog erg weinig, al kan hij al wel veel duidelijk maken, en hij weet ook echt wel wát hij wil! Maar ja, wel leert hij elke dag er woordjes bij, praat hij veel na, hij zingt het liefst, zo zingt hij al heel wat liedjes me van zijn lievelingsCD van Ben Ketting (Prinsen en Prinsessen)! Maar het baelangrijkste nieuws van Efraim is wel dat hij nu alweer een paar weekjes zindelijk is, in elk geval overdag en dat scheelt ons enorm in de luiers (al gaan we nu wel vele keren op een dag op en neer naar de WC....). Hier wat van de laatste kiekjes, deze zonnebril kreeg hij op de zondagschool toen ze les kregen over de blinde Bartimeus!!!

Het is hier bloedjeheet en een zelfgemaakt vruchtenijsje is dan natuurlijk heerlijk!

JAIME KEMP CONFERENTIE

We zijn eind vorige maand een weekendje naar een conferentie geweest met Jaime Kemp, internationaal bekend vanwege zijn boeken over oa het huwelijk en opvoeding. We waren echt superblij dat we hier heen konden gaan en hebben veel geleerd, ook was het goed om eens eventjes weer ergenes met z´n tweetjes mee bezig te zijn! Efraim heeft een nachtje op de basis gelogeerd.

kijk voor een update over vida nova hier: http://vidanovafortaleza.blogspot.com/
kijk voor meer over Jander´s werk hier: http://casademeupai.blogspot.com/

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6/21/08
Maio/Junho 2008 português





O trabalho de prevenção está indo muito bem. Mirjam e eu estamos indo toda semana para uma favela em fortaleza, onde trabalhamos juntos com projeto Shine (também projeto da base de JOCUM Fortaleza). Com um grupo pequeno de meninas estamos fazendo aulas de artesanato, mas nós também aproveitamos para falar sobre vários assuntos, como sexualidade, relacionamentos, e casamento. Vamos continuar com o mesmo grupo até o final de Junho. Depois das férias vamos começar com novo grupo de meninas. Também já temos planos concretos para iniciar o programa de prevenção em mais 2 outras localidades. Nas 4ª feiras de manhã estamos fazendo abordagem de rua com algumas meninas de rua/garotas de programa. Nosso foco inicial é ganhar a confianças delas e fazer amizade. Uma das meninas A*** tem 18 anos e está grávida do segundo filho. Ela mora e dorme na rua e não pode voltar para casa por causa de dívidas de drogas. Apesar da gravidez, ela ainda usa crack, e também ela continua fazendo programa, como as outras meninas, várias vezes ao dia. Muitas vezes nós nos sentimos incapazes, tristes, porque no momento não tem muito que podemos fazer para mudar a situação delas. Por isto queremos muito comprar uma casa onde podemos receber estas meninas. Nós já encontramos o lugar perfeito na verdade, agora só falta o resto….. (olha no blog do nosso ministério, tem mais histórias sobre A*** e também tem fotos da casa que gostariamos de comprar: http://vidanovafortaleza.blogspot.com/)



- Meus pais estão vindo para passer 6 semanas aqui no Brasil.
- 18 de Julho–8 de Agosto uma equipe de 8 meninas da holanda vem para base, eu e Jander vamos estar responsável por esta equipe
- 18-25 de julho a equipe marailhosa de Hawaii está voltando pela 5a vez (pelo menos)), eles vem todo ano com assistência médica, odontologico e muito mais, sempre é uma semana muito cheia, mas abençoada
- 23 de julho vai chegar uma voluntária dos estados unidos para o projeto
- 5-22 de julho vamos ter uma escola de férias na base (mini-ETED)
June/May 2008 english
Lees in het nederlands hier
It´s been way too long again since our last message! Anyway, I´ll try to keep it short, probably a lot will be the same for our newsletter which I´ll have to write this week as well…………






Also Jander is doing weekly street work as well. Every Friday-afternoon or –night a team goes to different place around Fortaleza that are known to have groups of street kids hanging around. How special it is to see that sometimes the boys of the farm, that used to be living on the streets themselves, now are coming along with the team as a living prove that it is possible to change and that there is still hope!

Efraim is already becoming a big boy! He´s almost 2 years old now! He loves playing hide and seek in his little house (big tv-box), or sometimes he gathers a lot of plastic cups, containers, spoons and starts ´cooking´. He is very active and we have to keep an eye on him every second or he will even climb the computer desk!
We have a lot of activities coming the next few weeks:· My parents are coming over for 6 weeks
- July 18- August 8 a GOteam of 8 Dutch girls is coming to the base, Jander and me will be responsible for them
- July 18-25 july the wonderful Hawaiian team is coming back, they come every year to do medical, dentist care, and lots more, it´s always a busy but great week!
- July 18 we´ll have a volunteer from the States at Vida Nova
- Juli 5-22 we´ll have a mini-dts on the base.
Mei/Juni 2008 nederlands








- mijn ouders komen half juli voor 6 weken (er is nog plek voor cadeautjes hint hint!!!!!!! Nee zonder gekheid, ook spullen voor het project zijn nog welkom, zwangerschapstesten, babykleding, etc kom maar op!)
- 18 juli- 8 augustus komt er een GO-team van 8 meiden uit Nederland als vrijwilliger, Jander en ik zijn verantwoordelijk voor dit team
- 18-25 juli komt er een team tandartsen uit Hawaï (dit is altijd ontzetten leuk, dit is geloof ik al de 4 e of 5e keer dat ze komen!)
- 23 juli komt er een vrijwilliger voor 6 weken uit Amerika, speciaal voor ons project Vida Nova
- 5-22 juli is er een mini-dts op de basis
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