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(For Part 1 of "Celebrating What God Has Done!", please see our February 2021 newsletter here.) We hope you are keeping cool this month! Working from home has its advantages, including not having to get into a hot box (our car) after a day of work. My teams will start going back to the office… Continue reading Celebrating What God Has Done! (Part 2)

I hope spring has brought breaths of fresh air to you and your family. April has always been an exciting month for us. This year was no exception. We celebrated five family birthdays: Rylie is April 12th, mine is the 23rd, Becca is the 26th and Andy is the 30th. (We also celebrated Cady’s birthday,… Continue reading An Awesome April

Hello from South Carolina — I (Catherine) began writing this letter in mid-February, from Rachel’s dining room. On February 4th, Rachel woke up with stomach pain, and by 9:30 p.m. she was recovering from an emergency appendectomy. The next morning, before the sun was up, I was in the car driving to Greenville. Such a… Continue reading Spring Forward…

Hello, and once again, happy 2021. This year Andy and I will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary! I mentioned in our last two letters that God has been at work during the last ten months, and we wanted to share some of those stories with you. We also want to thank you for walking and… Continue reading Celebrating What God Has Done!

Hope, Light, Joy, Peace, Comfort. Do these things still ring true in a year that has been anything but normal? A year with so much loss, so much fear, so much anxiety? Yes! Yes they do ring true! They rang true during the first Christmas, Jesus’ birthday. It was not a warm and comfortable and… Continue reading Merry Christmas!

Autumn. Here in Central Florida, we have pumpkin patches and all stores are featuring apple and pumpkin spice food and candles. I’ve sipped warm cider and have decorated with a scarecrow or two. Yet, it is not quite the same as fall in New England. A hay ride in shorts is brutal. Dressing in long… Continue reading Thankful in the Midst

The question was meant as a joke, but it was soooo indicative of our year: Andy asked, “So, what do you want to do for our 34th wedding anniversary? Stay home, or stay home, or...stay home?” I confess that I’m struggling with cabin fever, yet there is still a level of anxiety around going out of… Continue reading More Than Just a Pile of Rocks

Hello from continued quarantine in Central Florida! This is Andy writing this time. I would have never believed, in March, that this would still be going on, and with such gusto. That I would still be working from home. That Zoom meetings would be a daily reality. That for weeks at a time we would… Continue reading It’s still COVID… and God’s still in control!

Greetings from “stay-in-place” Central Florida. Isn’t is strange how things are changing day-by-day, then again, we are home all day and so much is the same? I look at our family photo above and think, “six feet apart people!!” Our tribe is doing well — Kevin is working from home and Cady is home with… Continue reading At Home… and an Accolade

Hello friends, family, and ministry partners. Just a quick note. We appreciate your partnership with us! Andy and his teams are leading a project with the program, Okta (OCK-tuh). This is no short assignment, it will effect every Cru staff member, ministry volunteer, and donor. Every website or internal application that requires a user to… Continue reading Short Month, Short Post — Our February (and March) News