Update from the Andes

Thought you might like a brief update on our daughter Kelsey...blogging without knowing it...

Hey everyone!

Unlike my dad, I am not the "blogging" type, so I hope that an email update will suffice! :)

I've been here in Quito for almost three weeks now, and I just now am starting to feel settled. Here in the past week, several things have come together with my apartment--internet, kitchen appliances, etc. I am still pending a dryer hook up--so in the meantime I have laundry lines hanging all over the apartment.

I am really loving it here. I know I may still be in the honeymoon phase, but it has been a great honeymoon thus far! The faculty and students here at AAI are great, and I enjoy teaching and coaching.

I am teaching ESL Bible and writing classes, as well as coaching JV girls basketball. My Bible class is great. I have four different countries represented, and most all of the kids have no knowledge of the gospel. I basically get to spend an hour with them a day, walking them through the Old Testament and talking about how God is continually redeeming His people. Please be praying for their understanding of both English and the Bible.

Thank you for your prayers in regards to relationships; I have already made some very good friends here at school. There are lots of young, single girls who are here for the purpose of loving God and loving kids, and it has been really encouraging to spend time with them.

I attended a Spanish speaking church called La Fuente last Sunday, and plan on meeting with them again this Sunday. I ask that you all could be praying for both my language learning and search for biblical community.

Thank you for your support in prayer as I "do life" here in Ecuador. Today in Bible discussed the fall of Jericho. It was new material to them, and a great reminder for me--- the same God that made walls fall by the sound of a trumpet 1500 BC is the same God I am serving here in Quito and that you are serving in the US.....AWESOME.

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For those of you that are interested...here is the best way to continually stalk me on social media:

skype: kelseynichols.
facebook: Kelsey Nichols
twitter: nicholskelsey
Instagram: kelseynichols2


Love you, miss you, and am SO very thankful for you all! Please let me know ways I can be praying for you.

Blessings,
Kelsey

Today's the Day

So this morning we had a family style breakfast with eggs and bacon and biscuits and cocoa, and then we did the awkward "have you got everything" dance from upstairs in our townhouse to the old SUV outside because...
Today is the day that my firstborn daughter Kelsey heads out to live in Ecuador in the spread of the true biblical gospel, and in obedience to the command of Christ, but ultimately for the sake of the glory of God our righteous King.

As you know, God has most of our family of 11 sitting still in Birmingham, Alabama for now. But part of his plan includes us watching our little girl/scholar/athlete/fun-loving/ball of fire as she obeys a call on her life from many years ago, one where God whispered in her heart that she would someday tell the covenant story in places other than her home context.

We are joyful and tearful at the same time, so join with us in praying for her, and supporting her in every way God leads you to do, for His Name's sake and for a real biblical gospel in every place on the earth.

I will send along more information later, so look for updates to our blog and email.
For now, you can email Kelsey at kelseynichols2@gmail.com if you woud like to encourage her or if you twitter you can find her tweets, or if you facebook you can look for her there as well.

We are thankful to God for His grace worth sharing!
Blessings-

Chris and Vickie