RachelStaablog

It’s been a while since I last updated people about what’s going on. So I wanted to catch you all up on what’s going on in my life. While you’re reading this letter, please pray for the matters in bold throughout the letter.

Missionary Kids (MKs)

Every Monday night we have a youth group for Wycliffe MKs that are in the Dallas area whose parents are involved in Bible translation all over the world. Some of their parents are based here in Dallas and support Bible translation through creating computer programs, or doing linguistic research or other support ministries. Other families are here for a year at a time on furlough. During our youth group meetings we have a time of worship, a message, and then we divide up by age and gender into small groups to discuss things and pray. I’m a small group leader for freshmen, sophomore and junior girls.

We’re planning a retreat on Labor Day weekend for all of the kids. It should be a really great time of getting to know them and an excellent start to the school year. I’m in charge of planning the games for the weekend.

We as a staff are currently working on writing new curriculum which addresses specific MK issues, like identity. I’m really excited about it! I hope it will be a great learning experience for the kids as they talk about all these things.

Coach Staab

This past semester, I subbed in the Dallas suburb of Duncanville. For the last five weeks of the school year, I subbed for a PE coach, thus, for the first time in my life I was called “Coach Staab.” This is a religious area of the country, but my guess is most people are not saved even if they say they are. Praise God that I’ve been able to share the gospel many times to many classes. Probably about 200 kids have heard the gospel in the past few months. Please pray for me as I consider how to lead them to the next step of faith.

This summer I’m working on getting into a program which will allow me to do a teaching internship and then get certified to teach. I’ll hopefully be teaching Special Ed as an intern in the fall at the school where I was formerly known as “Coach Staab.”

I’m subbing and getting a teaching certificate to support myself at this time, but my heart is really in the MK ministry. I wish I had more time to devote to that, but right now I have to work in order to have money to continue serving in this MK ministry. Would you please consider helping me out financially so that I will have more time to devote to the MK ministry? Your support will allow me to serve the MKs and further the work of Bible translation. One-time donations are very much appreciated, and monthly donations even more so. If you are able to donate, please go to this page of my website: www.rachelstaab.com/donate. Because of my volunteer status, these donations will not be tax-deductible.

I really appreciate your praying for me as I serve in this ministry! Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

my this year’s holiday card: check it

If you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask.

Good gift-giving dad
A steamroller of goodness
There’s no stopping him

Hope

i lost my nosering
it could be anywhere but
it’s within my grasp

a glint off a gem
that thing i’ve been longing for
it’s within my reach

first one in a long time…

Sunday Day of Rest Haiku

rice pudding and tea -
dreams of uninterrupted
nothing is hard work

work at nothing-ing -
let us make every effort
to enter that rest [Heb. 4:11]

rest on this Sunday -
stare out the window and eat
rice pudding and tea

I joined Wycliffe in May, but then I resigned in June because I’m really not sure what I want to do. What I learned at Training Camp in June is that I really like Wycliffe and everything that they are involved in. I want to be involved in Wycliffe in the future when I have more direction. I will still be able to rejoin Wycliffe and I will not have to go to Training Camp again. They are willing to let me just pick up where I left off. I’m praying for direction either toward a place or a field of work. Read the rest of this entry »

[This is old news: It was meant to be published on June 4 but didn’t make it.]

I am now a Wycliffe member! After a long process of filling out the application, etc. I have been accepted. So now I’m planning on going to Training Camp in Orlando where I will learn about Wycliffe policies, next steps and such. Read the rest of this entry »

I just finished up my third of eight sessions at GIAL in Dallas. I have studied Grammar, Phonetics and Phonology. I’m well on my way to having a basis for understanding the languages of the world! I’m really enjoying my classes a lot. I’m learning a lot of fascinating things about languages like Read the rest of this entry »

Easter

“Bleeding Order: A relationship between ordered rules in which the rule (A) that applies first removes a structural representation to which another rule (B) would otherwise have applied.”