Boy, are we busy!!!

As we prepare to move into the little house in Montpelier, Oh. that the Lord has led us to, we are finding not enough hours in the day to do all that we need or want to do. Plus the temperature has been very hot around here and does not exactly motivate us to get a lot accomplished! We have begun to paint the rooms and have finished the bathroom and begun work on the boys room and the living room. They are all blue, so David is ready to paint with another color, :>). Stephen and Ezra are in the process of making sports posters to put all over their walls after we get the bunkbed set up. The room we are using for their bedroom has a large arched doorway, so we plan to buy and hang a long Drapery rod with some drapes that will go with the living room which is the adjoining room. We may even hang one on the inside of their room, also, if we find something they would like, as that would muffle sound a little better.

We hope to be all moved in by Aug. 1st. We will see how it goes.

I (Rebecca) am working at the Bob Evan's restaurant 4 to 5 days a week as David has still not been able to find employment at this time. Please pray specifically with us that he will find a job IN Montpelier. He could ride bike or walk to it and that would be a major blessing! Right now he is spending a lot of time at the new house painting while I am at work. He and the boys have it looking more and more like home. Ezra is pleased that he was the first one to use the oven there, as he cooked a frozen pizza for their lunch the other day, and today, Stephen was the first to use the shower there. He says it feels great. The boys are really enjoying biking around the new neighborhood. They hope to make some new friends, esp. some that love to play basketball the way they do! :>)

Well, keep us in your prayers. Tomorrow is Stephen's 12th birthday and he is pretty excited about it.

bye for now and blessings to you all!

Rebecca

Busy, Busy, Busy,....

Hello Friends,

We Millers are just as busy as most of the rest of you, I'm sure. Our busy-ness just takes the form of work in three different towns - in Angola, IN, here near Edon, OH, and also in our new rental house in Montpelier, OH. The restaurant schedule is keeping us hopping, and trying to balance our time in Mont. against that work schedule is a real task! The boys and I will likely spend a lot of time over there, painting the interior of the house before we can really move in. We took their bikes over yesterday so they can play and have fun around town while I focus on the inside work. I'm still getting over the after-effects of my hospitalized seizure-exploration; I'm still very sore and worn-out from the numerous events I experienced, so the dr's could get a better idea how to medicate me in the future. This very much concerns our planned missions vision, as you can imagine! So I try to get some things done at either house, while not overdoing amid the summer heat. Rebecca didn't go through the physical stresses I did, but hers was perhaps just as difficult a role to play...she had to watch and observe, trying not to worry about me, while I went through all those seizures. After we got home was when the major stress overcame her, but the prayers of friends and family saw her through, in Jesus' Name.

Lord-willing, we'll be going out to the Leo, IN area this weekend to meet with some Believers from Africa! They are Swahili-speaking peoples, most of whom are from The Congo - a nation "near" our future home of Tanzania. We met a few of these new friends two weeks ago, and we hope to be able to meet the whole church this coming Sunday. We'll see if things proceed as we hope and plan. We look forward to fellowship-time with these new friends. Perhaps there's someone among them who can help us learn Swahili, too! Wouldn't that be a blessing?!! This may well be a good time of ongoing friendship and fellowship before we ever get over to Africa. We truly look forward to these possibilities.... DL

David's Hospital Observation Stay

Dear Friends,

It is our 26 years and 1 month wedding anniversary today and we rejoice that David got to come home from the hospital. :>)

He took his regular seizure meds on Mon. night at 10, he and I checked into the Medical College of Ohio Hospital in Toledo at 8 a.m. on Tues. morning with no further meds at the time. They put him in a special room with a video camera on him for the day and wired him for an eeg. At 8p.m. he had a grand mal seizure which surprised the hospital staff and they went code blue because it was a big one. At 8:30 they took him to ICU for the night and I drove home. I had planned to stay the whole three days because they have a chair that folds into a bed, but when he was put in ICU I had nowhere to sleep so I came home. (Guess what? I had left the house key at the hospital! I cried, but the Lord prompted me to see if the church trustee down the road had an extra key, which he did, so I did get to sleep in our bed that night.)

For some reason, the staff took off the eeg wires while he was in ICU so on Wed. when they moved him back to the observation room, the entire day was wasted as there was no record of the smaller seizures he was having. Oh, they had put him immediately back on half of his meds after the grandmal. So, on Thursday aft. around 2 they rewired him and turned the video camera back on. Praise the Lord, they were able to get all that they needed to observe. Unfortunately we aren't scheduled to meet with the Dr. until Aug. 4th! We are praying that the Lord will give Dr. Greenfield the knowledge and wisdom that he needs so that he can get David's meds regulated in a way that he will be seizure free.

Stephen and Ezra were with diff. friends and relatives and enjoyed their little vacation. Please pray for us as we all adjust back into family life after almost a week apart.

Blessings to you all,

Rebecca

Monthly financial report

Praise the Lord with us. We received our monthly report from Elim Fellowship today and were excited to see that a little over $1000 came in last month. We are almost to $5000 of the $48,000 that we need. Our monthly pledges are continuing to grow also, which EF tells us is the really important part of the fund raising. To all of you who are faithfully sowing seed into our missions fund, WE THANK YOU!!!!!!

Each month when we receive the report we are blessed to see the names of the family and friends who have already been sending money every month and then surprised and pleased by the new names that show up. It is fun to look over the list together and lift your names up to our Lord for His blessing in YOUR lives. We have been teaching Stephen and Ezra this year about the concept of sowing and reaping and so, we are very aware that Our Lord Jesus will bless you as you sow.

On another line, we got the key to our new house in Montpelier today and took the boys to see it. they both like it and can't wait to decorate their own room. The landlords have been busy the last week pautting in new doors and windows and blinds and a stove with a hood. They have rewired the house also. We look forward to painiting and moving in.

Blessings to all of you,

Rebecca (this time :>)

TIMES & SEASONS

Hello Again, Friends -

After about 2 1/2 years here in this beautiful home near Edon, OH, we will soon be moving on. It's a mixed blessing: we had hoped not to have to move until THE MOVE to Africa (thinking it would be soon-ish). But as things turned out, the church next door has need of the house, and we realize that this is also a good opportunity for us to start seriously "weeding out" what will go with us to TZ, what we can do while we're still here in the states, what will eventually be stored during the 2 years (or more) that we're away overseas, and what is just plain expendable. Now I'm a bonna-fide pack rat, and have a very tough time throwing away things; "you never know when _____ might come in handy!" But I'm having to Force myself to throw a lot of "just things" away, hard as it is. And perhaps hardest of all: what beloved BOOKS can I part with? What might I need in Africa? I'm a hands-on reader, rather than a computer-screen student. But books, especially Bibles and Study books get real heavy, real fast! "Pray Brethren, PRAY!!!"

The new landlords have given us much freedom to paint and decorate the new house as we think best, and it will be in their best interests for us to make it as lovely as possible. We want to be a good witness in EVERYTHING that we do: there IS no difference between thing considered "secular" vs. "spiritual" . . . ALL of Life is a spritual matter! {DLM - you may quote me : ) } So while we fix up the new house, we can bit by bit move things over from the old one. Praise God for lack of pressing timetables, in this regard. It needs to be Done, but not in a huge hurry.

May the Lord bless all of you, and we ask that He continue to provide toward this precious Missions Vision as He sees fit. This is HIS vision for us, and HIS people to whom we will be going. May it all come together...in HIS time! DL

Some Hallelujah News!

Greetings to you All!

After a number of months of seeking a new place to live, we have finally located a place not far from where we already live, and are looking forward to moving in by mid June. We've been living in the parsonage of the church next door to us, and they feel they have need of the house, so we've been kindly asked to move on. Being in full agreement with their perspective, we readily agreed, and at last, here we are!

We only wish the finances to take us to Africa would come as easily, but the Lord must have some purpose for keeping us in a "holding pattern." In any even, we continue to share our Missions Vision, and have now begun packing in earnest to get ready for the new house. The move is forcing us to seriously consider what we can and cannot take with us, and the materials we need to keep handy until the day finally arrives when we can wing our way eastward. There is much to do, much to read, much to study - had I mentioned much to DO - in the remaining time, however long He has in store.

Our Prayer Cards have at last arrived, and we've added them to our Presentation supplies. Our friend Cynthia did a wonderful job, and we're quite pleased.

Good-bye for now, with our Love and His Blessings to you all!