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Some news as we prepare to return to Tsumkwe.  Feel free to share.
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Be thankful always. 1 Thessalonians 5:18
We wanted to take this newsletter to share “victories” and things we are thankful for over the past few months.

  • A professional language coach and mentor from Wycliffe International. She is willing to guide us as we re-engage learning Ju/hoansi, a Khoisan click language. We are currently meeting with her once a week online.
  • For safety as we have traveled all over the southeast visiting with many of you over the past 3 months. We have made ourselves available to as many as possible.
  • For 21 new $30 monthly supporters this month.  We only need 9 more to reach our goal!!!  To be one of those 9 click here.
  • For you all who have housed us, fed us, prayed for us, loved on us and blessed us.
  • The chance to go to the first Oral Bible Translation Conference in Richmond, VA. God provided many clear answers. God is also refining a direction and tools needed to share the gospel with the San Bushman so that they internalize God’s Story.
  • Claudia is so much better and will be weaning herself off the antidepressant medicine in December.
  • The opportunity to lead a storying small group at Eastern Heights Baptist Church in Statesboro, GA in January.
Prayer needs:
  • Finishing our work visa paperwork which include medical test, police clearances, and many notarized copies of all kind of things. We will officially submit our work visa next month.
  • Favor in the eyes of the Namibian government, so that our work visas will be approved without delays.
  • Someone in Statesboro, GA to help us learn the techniques we will use in Namibia to learn Ju/’hoansi.
  • Our support level will be at 100% by the end of the year. Currently at 87%.
  • For Claudia as she comes off the medicine she has been on to help her out of depression.

 
What does the path ahead look like? 
After spending Thanksgiving in Atlanta with Claudia’s family, we are going to take a break from traveling and enjoy the Christmas season in South Georgia. Jeremy has a lot of reading and research to do on making disciples of oral learners and orality in general. Jeremy is going to help his Dad fix the roof on their house. We will continue meeting with our language coach online and start meeting with a language helper in Georgia to help us learn our new language method. As we wait for our work visas, we will be packing so we can head back as soon as they are granted.
 
From the Ha3el Family to your family,
We wish you a Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas!!!!
 

Recent Fun Fact Friday from our Blog:

The past four days took me to Richmond, VA to a conference on Oral Bible Translation.  The SAN are an Oral culture.  Most can’t read or write and they pass on culture and history orally.  So as we look for tools to engage them with the gospel, I went to this conference.  It was a blessing to be there as a group from Namibia, Botswana and South Africa were also there.  I had just arrived in time for evening meal and sitting in the cafeteria I noticed a similar looking face.  I said to myself that is a Bushman in the U.S.  So I went over an introduced myself.  We clicked a little, greeted each other and found out we share the same Bushman name, so automatically that means we are brothers. Daqm is living just across the border in Botswana working on an Oral Bible Translation project but grew up in Tsumkwe.  The conference was great and I walked away with a greater understanding of how to move forward in an effective way.  The goal is to engage the Bushman with the gospel and to do that orally we will have to think outside our western culture box.  I look forward to exploring all the orality methods that we were exposed to and most importantly I look forward to the coming days where the Bushman are encountering scripture in their own language and sharing it with each other.


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Anastasia helping mommy setup our table at a recent stop at a church in Tennessee.
Claudia sharing and speaking to a Sunday School class in Tennessee.
Anastasia enjoying fall with her cousins in South Georiga.
Jeremy caught his first ever trout with a buddy while visiting in North Carolina.
Anastasia dipped her toes in her 2nd ocean while in Florida.
Anastasia and her new friend London hanging out in South Carolina.
Claudia and Bentley new mothers love being new mothers.
Chillin in a big chair in Georiga with grandparents.
Jeremy sharing at a church in Georgia. We are so thankful for all the churches that have allowed us to share over the past three months.
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