Prayer Update

We arrived safe and sound at the training center in La Gloria yesterday. We picked up a few different families from the San Diego airport, made a quick In-N-Out stop (woohoo!) and headed across the border. Once we got settled in our rooms it was dinner time 

and orientation. Today has been an incre

dible day. We went to church at Calvary Chapel Rosarito and came back to the training center. We had lunch (some of the best tostadas I've ever had!) and headed in for our first session of teaching. We went through a session called "Missionary God" and went through the whole Bible and learned how God has reached out to all of man kind from the beginning of time. It was an amazing, rich study of how our God is truly a 

(Jonathan riding on a wood bench in the back of a van headed for church in Tijuana. It officially felt like Mexico!)

missionary God. Tomorrow morning Jonathan is doing the morning devotion with the whole group and then we will be off to another filled day of  rich and applicable studies.

We wanted to let you know that Chris s

piked a pretty bad temp on Friday evening and it is being controlled Motrin/Tylenol. We thought it was teething initially since the doctor couldn't find anything other than the temp that was the problem. A few minutes ago Josiah woke up with what felt like a temp too. Please pray for the boys and our whole family as we are fighting off this thing. We don't believe that this sudden sickness came by coincidence. Please pray that we are able to stay at the training center and we

(Adrienne and Christopher at Comericial Mexicana-local grocery store)

 get over this thing. If we need to get out we have people who are able to take us home so we can see a doctor if need be.

Thanks so much for faithfully being with us in prayer. We will post pictures in the next couple days and give you more specifics on what's going on here. 

Bless you guys,  Adrienne

(Christopher enjoying his tostada at lunch)

(Josiah reminding mommy to blog)

Root Beer Floats, Plane Tickets, Churches, Mexico and Brownies!

Ephesians 3:20-21 "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."

Don't you love this picture?

This verse is the verse that resounds in my mind as I share lots of exciting news with you....

   

                      

Root Beer Floats: First of all, our root beer float fund raiser was quite a success!  Our team raised $452 this last Sunday. Praise God! THANK YOU to our team who gave there time to make this fund raiser a success and THANK YOU for all who gave out of the abundance of your heart. We are so blessed and thankful. 

Calvary Chapel West Grove: Last Tuesday, Jonathan had the opportunity to share about our call to Kenya with the CC West Grove missions board. Jonathan came home with a renewed enthusiasm and excitement for what God has called us to and a passion for sharing that with others. We praised the Lord for the opportunity to share with the board and glad they were interested! We are so excited and blessed that CC West Grove will be supporting our efforts on the mission field.  Thank you, CC West Grove for the opportunity to share what God is doing in our lives and your hearts for reaching the lost in Nairobi, Kenya.

  Plane Tickets: Wow, again, praise God for this exciting news. Our plane tickets were recently donated by a faithful follower of Christ at Refuge. What else can we say? Where God leads us He will provide. We are very blessed and humbled for such a supportive church body! The realization of purchased tickets makes everything that much more real!

F.I.T. Training: Well, the Ferg4 is off to Mexico in just two days (Sat. May 30th). We are staying at the La Gloria Training Center. We appreciate your prayers as our family spends the next two weeks filling our brains with lots of info. Please pray that we retain and put into practice all that we are taught. We are so excited to meet families that are walking through the same doors we are. Pray there is unity, love and encouragement amongst our group. 

BAKE SALE: Our team will be raising funds on Sat. June 6th and Sun. June 7th. We would love for you to donate and/or buy some baked goods! You can eat lots of yummy treats and feel good about spending your money 

towards helping our family make our way out to Kenya. 

Root Beer Floats! And More!

Hello fellow Refugees, this post is for you! Sunday May 24, we will be having church in the park (10:30 service only, behind the library in Central Park). After service, be sure to stop by the Ferguson Four Table for Root Beer Floats! Yum! We will also have Orange Floats, and for all you connoisseurs out there, we will also be having Coca-Cola Floats. See you after service in the park! 

Jonathan

We would love to visit your church!

As our family approaches our move date we would LOVE the opportunity to come share about the ministry in Kenya we are called to. We would love to share at your church or even your home study or youth group. 

Please contact Jonathan via email: mungubariki@gmail.com

Here is our prayer update:

• We are starting the registration process for language school in Kenya. Pray that our papers make it to Kenya and everything gets processed in  a timely manner. The process usually takes about 3 months. We are planning on starting school in October.
  
• Health for our boys as we begin vaccinations.
• Prayer for Christopher for his upcoming surgery. (He has a blocked tear duct and has to get it cleared). The surgery date is at 7:30 AM July 6th.
• Pray for safety and a time of refreshing as Adrienne leaves Friday, May 15th to see our good friends, the Langhams, in Mississippi (kids will be at home with lots of people caring for them....pray for the child care too! Hopefully our friends/family don't go crazy)
• Prayer for our family's upcoming trip to Mexico (F.I.T. training). Pray for our health, the kids napping schedule and that they will adjust to the schedule changes, rest during our trip, for Jonathan and I to be flexible on this trip and for God to speak to us clearly about our plans in Kenya and to confirm timing. 
• Prayer for the other families we will meet at the training in MX. Pray for their plans, safety and such as they prepare to move their families to the mission field. 
• Most importantly for our family to spend time daily with the Lord in prayer and in the Bible. That we would walk closely with Him.

We look forward to the opportunity to meet you, your home church and/or your home study. 

Adrienne for the Ferg4

F.I.T. Training Schedule

As many of you know, we will be in Mexico May 30-June 13 for Field-environment Intensive Training (FIT) to prepare for life in Kenya. We recently received the schedule for this amazing time of edification and encouragement. Here is a list of the classes we will be attending:

Missionary God * Culture Matters * Culture Shock * Re-entry

Church Planting * Spiritual Warfare - Armor

Prayer, Fasting & Personal Worship * Failure Management

Missionary Guilt & Rest * Relationships With Other Missionaries

Interpersonal Skills * Conflict Resolution

Family Relationships * From the Beginning : Marriage

Family on the Field * Being Single Minded

Education on the Field * Managing Stress

Leadership on the Field * Church Relations

Jerusalem to Antioch; Antioch to Philippi and the World

Receiving Short-term Teams

Written Communications and Newsletter Techniques

Culture/ Language Acquisition * Support Considerations

Cross-Cultural Study of Acts * Making Disciples Within Oral Cultures

Inductive Bible Study (IBS) Techniques * The Essential Gospel

In addition to these classes, we will also be attending church services, helping lead three English as a Second Language Clinics for the community, and participating in an immersion program, where we will be staying with a local family for the weekend. The families are great Christian families, but they don't speak English. Talk about being thrown into a different culture!

We also received a list of the other students, and it appears that Josiah and Christopher will have some playmates - there are going to be five other kids there, all age 3 or younger.

Please pray for the Ferguson Four as we head off on this great adventure! We will keep you posted while we are down there - Wireless Internet is available!

Jonathan (for the Ferguson Four)

If these aren't the cutest little passports photos you ever did see...

Hi there! We are so excited to finally get the kids passports! I always wondered what a kids passport would look like and they look just like a regular one....go figure, huh? EXCEPT...they are the cutest passport pictures I've ever seen (such a mom!)

Passports for little ones are only good for about five years. Then they'll go in a scrapbook, I'm sure.  

I've always thought getting a passport is such a cool thing. It gives me the hope that we are going somewhere....anywhere. My grandma has instilled a sense of adventure in my sisters and I and I have to say when these passports came I got so excited for Josiah and Christopher. We are off to an adventure of some sort. How grand!

Adrienne for the Ferg4

What happened here?

Typical Monday morning this morning. But yet, not so typical....

I drag myself out of bed preparing for the hot weather today and as usual I can hear my kids laughing and playing (Christopher through the bars of his crib laughs and Josiah usually tosses Christopher a few toys that will keep him entertained). As I walk out of my room, the sight I see is most unusual. I notice Josiah's door is open and our lamp is on in the living room. I thought, "Oh no, Josiah's been out here playing!" I rush into the kids room to see if they are okay and Josiah, looking pitiful in the corner next to Christopher's crib, I dare to ask, "What have you gotten into???" He looks up at me with these regretful, worried eyes, looking soaked and says, "haiwspway". 

As I look over to Christopher's crib I see a managerie of toys, a diaper BOX and other items. Thank goodness Christopher was okay in his little crib. I have no idea how he avoided the toys and miscellaneous "missiles" flying for his head.

Needless to say, Josiah went straight into the bath where he was scrubbed silly. Praise the Lord, his hair, once severely stuck to his head, was restored to it's gorgeous color and more importantly, texture. 

This reminded me of Lamentations Ch. 3:22-23 Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, 

Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 

Hmm...His mercies are new every morning but with young ones (as well as with me come to think of it) they are probably expended quickly. Oh wait, I think that's just my patience...haha

Isn't it awesome that God is never done with us? He never throws in the towel and calls us a "lost cause"? He just scoops us up and loves us and sometimes rebukes us. He is our loving father. He loves us despite our short comings. (:

FERGUSON FOUR MEET N GREET

Well, we were so blessed at the Meet N Greet yesterday. Thank you for all who came out to support our family. Your prayers love and support were such a blessing. I will post some pictures from the Meet N Greet soon. 

SPECIAL THANKS

Special thanks to our awesome support team for putting together a smooth, flawless event. We were able sport our new "Ferguson Four" shirts with pride (thanks to Anastasia, Helen and Brett Stetzko for the time and effort spent on those shirts). Thanks to Geoff and his friend for providing the bounce house so our little ones could stay occupied. Thank you to Jessie Quintana for helping out with the sound and Shannon Quintana for the great worship. Thanks to my mama for watching our boys at home so we could meet people and go through with the event smoothly.

Adrienne for the Ferg4