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By Scott & Andi, on May 14th, 2012  Dear Friends and Family,
We hope that you are well. We have experienced a few health challenges recently, but are doing better now. The weather has been quite delightful lately, which we’ve been thankful for b/c usually are over a month into the scorching temperatures of summer!
We have been keeping busy with ministry and life and enjoy where God has us now. Our schedule will soon change for the summer at the end of the month. Macey will culminate her year of preschool with a graduation ceremony at the end of May. Andi will change gears to help out with our summer internship program. We are expecting 21 students to arrive in June. The program has a special place in our hearts, as it’s where we first met 11 years ago! Scott will continue in his regular office role in the Global Technology Office. We also plan to host a Backyard Summer Club (similar to VBS, but smaller) in August for our neighborhood. Macey is currently signed up for two local Vacation Bible School (VBS) programs. Eden will just continue being cute:-)
We are so thankful for your love and support of our family. Please drop us a line to let us know how you are doing and we can pray for you.
Blessings to you,
Scott, Andi, Macey and Eden
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By Scott & Andi, on April 4th, 2012 
Dear Friends and Family,
Happy Easter! May this week be a time of reflection and gratefulness to the Lord. We are doing well and keeping busy with our roles in the office, and of course, parenting our kids. They are growing up quickly. Eden can say about 25 words and Macey just started swim lessons, just in time for swimming as the summer heat is upon us. We hope that you have an opportunity to read our newsletter which details a wonderful story of life charge as well as more of an update as to what we’ve been up to in the office.
Please let us know how we can pray for you.
Blessings to you,
Scott, Andi, Macey and Eden
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By Scott & Andi, on March 1st, 2012 Dear Friends and Family,
We hope that you are well. We are enjoying the more mild temperatures. We will likely start summer here next month! Preview Weekend recently took place at our headquarters and we hope that you have an opportunity to read about in our newsletter.
We are so thankful for you. Please let us know how we can pray for you.
Blessings to you,
Scott, Andi, Macey and Eden
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By Scott & Andi, on January 25th, 2012 Dear Friends and Family,
We hope that you are well. We are enjoying the cooler temperatures and remind ourselves that this is the time of year that we need to get outside! Christmas was a nice time away with family, but we are thankful to be home and back to a more regular schedule. Macey continues to love school and Eden is officially a walker.
We continue to be blessed in the work to which God has called us and look forward to the opportunities that we have this year. Andi is a part of a task force working to bring childcare to our office so that moms can be involved more in Campus Crusade-related ministry. It’s an endeavor that is quite complicated and over our heads, but we are thankful for the opportunity to trust with God with something that is bigger than ourselves. We also have a student weekend coming up where those involved will seek the Lord about serving Him at our HQ. Scott’s team has some of it’s members in Africa right now doing a couple of trainings.
Thank you so much for your love and support of us and our work.
Please let us know how we can pray for you. And, of course, please let know if you come to Orlando!
Blessings to you,
Scott, Andi, Macey and Eden
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By Scott & Andi, on December 14th, 2011 
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By Scott & Andi, on November 23rd, 2011 
Dear Friends and Family,
We had a great trip to Bangkok and have been back for about 2 weeks. Unfortunately, we have been battling sickness since we’ve been back— we’ve all had the flu plus Eden with the croup and an ear infection. We hoping we’re over everything. Please pray for our health?
We are thankful to be back home now to enjoy the cooler temperatures and holiday cheer.
Please let us know how we can pray for you.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Blessings to you,
Scott, Andi, Macey and Eden
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By Andi, on November 17th, 2011 Last Friday, Scott and I returned from Bangkok, Thailand after about 2 weeks there. We were there for MinistryNet, a CCC conference. We also spend a few days afterwards to see the sites. We spent a lot of time with our friends, Steve and Cheryl.
It seemed that every 5 minutes that Cheryl was bumping into some sort “terrifying” Thai food. And since we were at a conference, we were around a LOT of food;-) She blogged about “Foods that Terrified Me” at thebrattonbunch.blogspot.com.
I thought that it would be fun to piggy back off of Cheryl’s post to add some additional photos of “terrifying food.” So, here it goes…
I have never seen a bag of chips this big, let alone a bag this big of SQUID chips!
 Steve with JUMBO Squid Chips We went to a festival with lots of food vendors. I called this one the “Survivor Booth.”
 Crunchy Critters I saw these chickens at another booth and thought that they must be fake, but our Thai tour liaison told me that there’s no way that these vendors would have fake food in their booths.
 Real Chickens? And here it is…. Durian! It’s just about as scary on the inside as it is on the outside. The yellow oval in the middle of the photos is the middle of the Durian. It seems to be a cross between a pineapple and a pumpkin texture-wise on the inside. I didnt taste any. I saw an advisory at the airport check-in about people wanting to take Durian on-board with them.
 Stinky, Scary Durian Also, as Cheryl did, I’ll add a couple photos of fun Thai food:-)
 Yummy Crepe Ok, so maybe it’s not exactly Thai food, but I ate it a Thai mall, so that makes it Thai, right?  And not only did it taste good, but the price was right– less than $3USD!
 Healthy Cotton Candy? So we thought that this was someone making pasta, but found out that this is cotton candy made from honey. Could it be??? Healthy cotton candy?
And just in case anyone wants to see what happens if you try to feed Cheryl something that terrifies her….in other words just don’ do it! Love ya, Cheryl;-)
(sorry, Im too cheap to have an account where I can embed the video directly into the blog.
       
By Andi, on November 15th, 2011
By Scott & Andi, on October 27th, 2011  Dear Friends and Family,
It’s official! We’re heading to Bangkok on Saturday even with the threat of flooding. Here are the reasons that we have decided to proceed with MinistryNet:
- The local Thai staff and crisis management team feel that our part of town is safe, and they have promised to take care of any needs that might arise while we are in Bangkok. They are truly amazing and want to bless us with Thai hospitality even in the middle of an enormous crisis for them. They still feel it is safe. And again, the head of the crisis management team and National Director live very close to our hotel location.
- It has not rained in Bangkok over the last 4 days, and water level still is down in our area.
- The hotel not only has food and water stockpiled, but should the hotel get flooded, they have said they will relocate us to another hotel an hour south of our location where there is no threat of flood. They have also agreed that if we suddenly needed to evacuate to the airport that they would bus us to the airport elevated train system, provided the water doesn’t reach over 50 cm (roughly 20 inches)
- Our leadership including our president have given us their blessing to go. They feel that the urgency of mission outweighs some of the risks of going as opposed to postponing until a later time. We all know that 4 months in the digital world is like 10 years in the face to face world.
So, like any international trip, there is a risk. However, we still feel the risk is acceptable at this point, and we do have a plan if things get more difficult than expected while we are there. We are not afraid to cancel at the last minute, if necessary. There is a high tide expected this weekend in Bangkok, and we will be monitoring that closely. However, if our hotel and surrounding area escapes any flooding during that high tide that will give us even more confidence that we should stay dry while we are in Bangkok.
Let us continue to be in prayer for the outcomes of our conference as well as for the victims of the flood. Please pray for those who have lost loved ones. At this point, all of our Thai staff members are accounted for, but some have lost their homes and property. During the conference we will be addressing ways of how we can help.
We consider Isaiah 43:1-7 as the Lord speaking to us for Ministrynet. It is amazing how the situation in Thailand right now has garnered more prayer for this conference than we ever could have imagined. We expected that some of our conferees might suddenly decide not to attend, but instead we are seeing more people sign up! I addition our Thai staff have requested inflatable rafts to help them in their outreach. We have purchased 7 of these rafts and will be transporting them as we go.
We appreciate your prayers for us the ~175 other people who are involved in MinistryNet and that the Lord uses our time together to further His kingdom!
Blessings to you,
Scott, Andi, Macey and Eden
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By Scott & Andi, on September 30th, 2011  We hope that things are well with you. We are back into the swing of things in Orlando with Macey in preschool and us being on more of a regular routine. She is loving Mrs. Becwar’s class!
In other news we are getting ready to go to Thailand at the end of October for a technology conference. Andi has been working on several things in preparation for our time there. Scott will be working with the technical aspects of running the conference once we’re in-country. Would you pray right now for our housing situation? The hotel needs to replace some beds and there is a concern that there might not be enough twins beds to meet our need. Thank you!
Please let us know how we can pray for you. We appreciate you!
Blessings to you,
Scott, Andi, Macey and Eden
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