The first few days

Thanks for visiting our little site here to see how we are doing. By God's grace (and after a looong trip) we arrived in Penang on September 1. What a pleasure it has been to reunite with friends in old neighborhoods, church, community and yes- restaurants.( 'Afraid we've been eating too much which is to be expected). The seminary; Malaysia Baptist Theological Seminary, has provided us with an apartment and a car, for which we are very grateful. Ben will start teaching this week already, and the kids and I will start homeschooling in a few days. Aside from some jetlag, we are all ready to get going. No culture shock, which is nice. Even Cameron seems to remember things; he hugged his preschool teacher when he saw her. This morning we worshipped with Georgetown Baptist Church; the church we used to attend, and I think Kok Aun, the pastor, quickly put Ben on the preaching schedule.

We have all enjoyed reuniting with our close friends the Worten family. Though they have all grown and changed, the kids are enjoying time together.

The biggest challenge so far has been to persuade the kids that we don't need to carry out our list of  "1000 things to do while in Malaysia" during our first few days. 

This is the apartment in Batu Ferringhi where we are staying. We love the view of the Straits of Malacca.

Below us is a Muslim village; called a "kampung". There is also a mosque in the kampung, so we are waking up nice and early. We are on the tenth floor of a highrise.

We so appreciate each of you that are reading this. Thanks for thinking of us and praying for us.