Our Team

Hi :)

So we have a little back-log of blogs that are either partially done or have yet to get out of our heads and into your inbox.  Here’s the first of those!

This is our whole team on top of the Rock House roof 3 weeks ago…

Notice our color coding so you can easily tell who’s in what family :)  This is not so much about who does what on the team, but just to give you an idea of who all these people are that keep showing up on our blogs and who we live with.

Steve & Sonia Armour

Patriarch & Matriarch of LIA (and a decent fraction of the team.)  Steve is growing out his beard as he’s been cast in the role of Noah in one of the upcoming episodes.  Sonia enjoys teaching English and Bible on Tuesday nights to people in our neighborhood.  Steve & Sonia are the parents of Cynthia and Stefanie (and Richie who lives in the U.S.)

 

Joel & Stefanie Craig-- Sarina 2, Caleb 2 weeks (now, almost 5 weeks!)

Brian and Joel were MK’s together in Ivory Coast, West Africa, and these are the Rock House people!  They’ve been super busy with a new baby, potty-training Sarina, and getting closer every day to getting their house ready to move into (besides all the “normal” LIA DVD work!)

 

Arlen & Cynthia Isaak-- Nina 3, Dorian 2

…are almost finished with writing the script for episode #5!  Cynthia is tri-lingual as she knows Portuguese, English and also communicated with us in sign-language that we all learned in the 2 days she wasn’t supposed to talk after recently having wisdom teeth out.  Arlen is Canadian-American and Cynthia is Brazilian-American, which means that their kids have 3 passports each!

Danny & Bianca Templeton—Lissa 22 months

…are nearing the end of their month-long visit here.  Their home and ministry is in Southern Brasil, but they were able to dub an entire episode of LIA into Portuguese while they were here and will continue dubbing episodes after they are home again.  We’ve so enjoyed having them here—even as this has been a super tough month for them—Danny suffered with kidney stones and Bianca had a miscarriage 2 weeks ago.  Honestly though, they are our heroes and we pray that we will walk thru hard times in our lives like they are right now—so close to Jesus!     

 

Ana Cassia Fornari

…is appropriately wearing yellow as she is the sunshine of our group!  Ana is also from Southen Brasil and we miss her a lot right now as she’s on a trip visiting family, friends, churches and representing LIA.  May 11th can not come soon enough! 

 

Us :)

Wow, this was a hard blog to write as I was trying to keep the “captions” short, sweet and somewhat consistent….  Oh well :)  As always, there’s so much we’d like to tell you about everyone on our team…  like

• how last week three year old Sarina killed a tarantula BY HERSELF with her flip-flop
• the conversation that Ana and I had when I was talking about TWITTER and she was talking about TWISTERS and it went on for several minutes before we realized we were talking about different things (haha!!)
• hearing stories from Joel about him and Brian growing up in Africa
• that the tuxes Stefanie picked out for their wedding were also used for Arlen & Cynthia’s and our wedding!
• Arlen, Cynthia, Joel, Stefanie, Danny, Brian & I and all our NTBI memories together
• and so many other things…

And this is just the core part of our team!  We haven’t even started yet on our Church, Translators, Friends, Family and Supporters!!!

We.  Are.  So.  Blessed.

Thankfully,

Jocelyn<><