We hope that you are having a pleasant summer! July has been an exciting month as Jason has successfully finished with one month of French classes. Andréa and others have already noticed a big difference in the way he has been able to pick-out words, understand conversations, and greatly increase his vocabulary. It's exciting for him as he is able to minimally communicate with people he comes in contact with while living-out life here in Saint-Jérôme. If you would like to give an additional amount to support his monthly progression in French, please respond to this email and we would love to share more with you about this program!
A large portion of this month was taken towards preparation and
implication of "J'aime mon voisin" (JMV). JMV is a service project for
the local community, and each week the service project takes place in a
different city in Québec. Our week was during the second week of July,
as this was our first time taking part in it, it was a bit of a
learning-curve, which we hope we can learn from for next year! Jason
was involved with being the English-speaking point of contact for the
two Ontario church groups that came for the week to serve. A couple of
other highlights that he was involved with were: successfully leading
the group of 25 people on a tour of Montréal while navigating the métro
and attempting to not lose anyone, as well as, leading the daily morning
devotional and prayer time for those who were involved with serving the
city! Andréa was in charge of orchestrating housing for the Ontario
group and setting-up the logistics for the daily projects and evening
events. All around it was a great week and we look forward to serving
next year! Let us know if you would like to come as a volunteer, next
year, as a short-term mission trip (the previous year there was a youth
group from Oregon). Here are a few pictures from the week's activities:
As we are feeling more settled, we are enjoying making deeper connections with people here. We have had the privilege of being involved with marriage counseling, which is always enjoyable as it is a way to reflect on our own marriage. We enjoy being available to others in the church and just being a phone call away to help-out in any way we can. At the very end of this month, we were able to receive the rest of our furnishings, as a result of Jason's parents making the trek over. We were especially excited about our brand-new dining table that was built by a dear friend!! We have enjoyed meals with Jason's parents and look forward to now being able to host more people at our house!
In this next month, if you could keep us in your prayers in the following ways, that would be excellent:
- Language learning: that Jason will continue to be diligent in his studies.
- Andréa's health: that she can find the right doctors and/or naturopath as we learn how to navigate the Québec health system, which coverage will start in August.
- Travel: we will be on a quick trip to the west coast for Andréa's brother who is getting married. Please pray for ease of travel with Lydia, our time with loved ones, and as Andréa closes-off details with the school district and meets with her doctors.
Lydia
is now six-months old! She is waving at all whom she sees, her teeth
continue to come in (but nothing to show for all of the work yet), and
she is doing a lot more sitting-up and playing with toys. Here she is
at the lavender fields not far from our home.
We are ever so grateful for your prayer and support in our lives!
For His Glory,
Jason, Andréa & Lydia Maul
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