The Dyrud's Great Adventure

Well, we finished our last membership class at Calvary Church of Santa Ana last weekend and it was nice to be back in San Diego speaking at Shadow Mountain on Sunday. Our friend, Suzanne took some wonderful family pictures for us a while back at Lake Murray, so we thought we'd share some on our blog. We are enjoying getting back into the swing of things in El Cajon and seeing friends and family.

Hello family and friends. We invite you to praise the Lord with us as we are at 50% of our monthly ministry support goal with MAF in only 11 weeks! God has truly blessed us and we are so grateful for your prayers and support of our ministry. Our family is excited to see how God is providing for us as we continue to seek financial and prayer partners. We are glad to be doing God's work and are thrilled that all of you get to share in this work with us. We have posted a short video of Rodney and Justice playing peek-a-boo; it's pretty cute :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KqKenKzOig

Hello everyone! Rodney got back yesterday from his four day trip in the Grand Canyon. He had a great time and took wonderful pictures (some of which you will see above). Justice and I had a good time with my sister and niece, parents and grandparents while Rodney was away; Justice is teething again, so he's had a fever and a stuffy nose, but hopefully it won't turn into a cold. I wanted to update everyone on our life with MAF :) We are currently at 48% of our monthly ministry support and 31% of our outgoing funds! It is exciting to watch how God is providing for our family and we are so thankful to many of you who are supporting us financially and praying for us on a regular basis. We are gearing up for a busy week of sharing with friends and we will be going back to Santa Ana on Saturday for our last membership class at Calvary Church. We hope you all had a wonderful Easter, remembering the love and sacrifice of Christ and His resurrection from the dead. We serve a Living Savi...

Justice is 6 months old today! He is learning to sit by himself and he has his two bottom teeth in. He is becoming very aware of the world around him and loves to smile and laugh at people. He also loves to put things into his mouth. We are in Santa Ana again this weekend with more speaking engagements and friends to re-connect with. Hopefully, Rodney and I are going to spend the day at the beach today :)

Hello everyone, Tammi here. I realize it's been a while since I updated our blog, so here goes. We have had a crazy schedule, getting together with family and friends, speaking in chapels at our former high schools, speaking in various Sunday school classes and Bible studies.... it's all been great and we've enjoyed making new friends and re-connecting with old ones. This week we had to slow down a little since Justice has had a bad cold since Monday. Poor baby! He is doing much better now, but he is still stuffed up and coughing. I call him my little love bug because he likes to snuggle and rest his head on my chest while he's napping. We will resume traveling on Saturday as we will be going up to Santa Ana for the next 5 weekends to take a membership class at the church where Rodney grew up. Our family appreciates your prayers for continued health as we start again with our busy lives, while doing our best to not stretch ourselves too thin.

Just a quick note to share what we did over the weekend. On Sunday, I realized that Justice had his FIRST TOOTH poking up :) Then, we went up to Torrance to visit Greg and Roxane Fields(Rodney's sister and brother-in-law) and our new niece, Misty Brooke. We spent the evening together and it was fun to see their new little family. We are coming back to San Diego tomorrow to prepare for the meetings that we have going on for the rest of the week. Thanks for keeping up with us!

Thank you for your prayers; we had a fruitful time in Fresno doing the video shoot and we are excited to see and share the finished product! Today, we are heading up to Santa Ana for a week; we are speaking in Rodney's high school chapel tomorrow morning and then having home meetings in the evenings until we come home next Wednesday. Next Wednesday evening, we speak in an Awana Club in Spring Valley and then that Thursday we are speaking in a home Bible study group. Our deputation schedule is staring to pick up pace. The Lord is truly blessing our family as we prepare to go and serve Him in Africa. We currently have 30% of our monthly support and 7% of our outgoing support raised. We also have many faithful prayer supporters who are praying for us daily. Thank you for your active participation in reaching the people of the DRC with God's love!