Hi, Everyone!
Thanks for choosing to look at our family homepage!
For those who have been checking our website for current news, I must apologize
for taking so long to update it. The tax deadline is finally past and
summer has arrived! This summer brings a lot of changes in our family, and
I'll mention a few:
Jordan and Ashley graduate from Texas State University in San Marcos
in less than two weeks---Ashley with a degree in Education (Certified Teacher)
and Jordan in Pre-Law (Communications). If you'd like an "Invitation" and
didn't get one, please let us know. Then, they both head overseas ...
After graduation, Ashley is leaving for Laos, in Southeast
Asia, where now, as a certified teacher/educator, she will serve as a missionary
for one year. Her story and mission is available in a newsletter available upon
request, if you would be interested in helping her with sponsorship.
Jordan too will be heading overseas after graduation to
play basketball in Europe on a select team of collegians from the USA.
Team USA will play professional teams in Europe in Austria, Slovenia and Italy.
Beginning in Vienna, they will play (and sightsee!) in the Alps, then go to the
capital of Slovenia (Ljubljana) to play. After that, it's on to Venice
(and then a day on gondolas, etc.), and finishing the tour in Milan.
Jennifer and I, in celebration of our 16th wedding
anniversary, will go to Europe to see friends, pastors and other ministry
contacts ... AND see Jordan play. Our paths will most likely cross in
Venice, where we will spend the next day sightseeing with him and the team, and
Milan, where Gerry Testori and a group of StraightWay fans will watch him play
against Milan's best. Scouts will be attending the games, so perhaps
Jordan will get an invitation to stay in Europe and play professionally a while
before he starts Law School. We will see ...
The ministry I direct, StraightWay Training Center, has
experienced an influx of new people---from students to staff. Of course,
with new students, we need more staff, so this "new blood" that the Lord is
bringing will make our ministry stronger and more effective in the days to come.
Three entrapeneurs from Alaska and the Northwest are moving her to help us
develop our therapeutic community housing/building project under the direction
of John Luther and an after-care work programs for our graduates. A Teen
Challenge director, his wife and a staff intern are interested in our vision of
"setting the lonely in families" (Psa. 68:6) and making plans to move here from
the Northwest along with a Bible college buddy of mine who will become the new
spiritual life director for our students. So, as the economy rebounds, so
is our ministry from the recession of the last couple years!
You can see my own video of my time in the
Middle East with some of the places I visited by going to
www.vimeo.com/davidkirschke.
So, thanks again for visiting! Check back
soon! I'll add more content soon..
David & Jennifer Kirschke & Family
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