The Dyrud's Great Adventure

Hello! We have spent the last two days up in Fresno completing our video project. Our friends Donivan and Justin have made a very professional video that will be a tool to help us as we continue deputation (Justin used to work for Disney). Rodney and I are so thankful for this opportunity to make this video and to spend time with Donivan, Cherri and Caleb. We are heading home this morning and appreciate your prayers. Rodney is feeling better and we are glad that we were able to make it up to Fresno this weekend.

Justice gets tickled! We love to have fun with our son :) Our deputation schedule is picking up and we are excited to have many chances to share the ministry of MAF in the coming weeks. As some of you know, this upcoming week, we will be traveling to Fresno where some friends will help us make a personalized video that we can use in churches and Sunday school classes/small group Bible studies. The hope is that we could send the video to the pastor or group leader a week or so ahead of when we will be sharing so that once we get there to speak, the people will have a little background about our lives and a small glimpse into the ministry of MAF. We would appreciate your prayers for safety, good weather and God's Hand to be on this entire project. Also, before leaving to head up to Fresno on Tuesday morning, we have the opportunity to share in a chapel at Tammi's former high school (Christian High School in El Cajon). We will have about 10 mintues to share with the students and f...

Dear family and friends, prayer warriors and partners, Greetings! We are so excited to have you along for this journey that the Lord is taking us on. Our family is thankful to be healthy and we are enjoying the beautiful San Diego sunshine (as opposed to the beautiful Idaho snow!). As we begin our third week of deputation, we wanted to share how God is already blessing and preparing us to go to Africa. We currently have 27.5% of our monthly support and 3.3% of our outgoing support raised! What a tremendous encouragement! We have also had the opportunity to see some of you and speak in a few Sunday school classes. We look forward to continuing this in the weeks and months ahead. We would like to finish this short letter with some praises and prayer requests. Praises · We had a safe trip home from Idaho · We are healthy · We had a safe trip up to Santa Ana, Claremont and San Pedro to visit some of Rodney’s family · God is opening doors for us in ways we never imagined! i.e. one couple we...

Hello family and friends! We made it safely back to San Diego on Saturday afternoon and now we are busy settling in. MAF is giving us this first week back at home to organize our "office" and find a place to put our 3 Fed-Ex boxes of material that just arrived :) Rodney and I were so pleased to see many of you at church on Sunday; we enjoyed catching up and look forward to seeing more people in the days ahead. God is faithful and we are blessed to have 11% of our monthly support raised in the first two days back home!! For anyone who would like to get our prayer letter updates, please send us an e-mail and we can have you set up to receive those. Everyone who is currently on our list will be receiving our first prayer letter some time this week. Thanks for your continued prayers and support of what God is doing through us in MAF!

Our time in Idaho is flying by and we have one more week of class. This last week was very stressful and full of homework. We created a 20 minute presentation that we can use in churches and this weekend we have to whittle that down into a five minute and a one minute presentation. It snowed again yesterday and it is snowing and raining this morning. Thank you all for your prayers! We are so grateful for your interest in the ministry of MAF and how God desires us to be a part of His work in Africa. The three of us look forward to seeing many of you when we get home. Love, Rodney, Tammi and Justice

Here is a video of Justice enjoying his high chair at the MAF appartments in Nampa, Idaho. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzhudfukeIw These next two weeks we are in Ministry Partnership where we are learning how to build our MAF ministry team. Today we began writing out our presentations that we will share with everyone.

WE HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED BY MAF AND WE ARE GOING TO AFRICA!! We don't know what country we are going to yet. The regional director will assign us according to the specific needs and where we fit best. We will let you know.