Here’s a fun, quick video of our twins, Rebecca and Anna. Welcome to our fun new life! It involves a whole lot of baby time like this – it’s 2 full-time jobs. Fortunately our cell group meets in our house, our disciples come here for discipleship, my current work with PAZ involves all kinds of creative work (website, video, etc) I can do from home. And best of all, we can meet with God wherever we are. In other words- we hardly leave the house, except for when I go to church for meetings, practices and worship on Sunday! But God has sure blessed us with this work that we can do from our home! Enjoy this cute video!
And those are earrings you see! Yes, here in Brazil, all little girls have earrings as soon as they’re born. We waited until they were both healthy before piercing their ears, but now they’re all ready for a girly life in Brazil.
Be praying for continued growth and better sleeping and eating patterns. Right now they sleep for 3 hours straight at night (on a good night) until they wake up and need to be fed. So mom and dad don’t get a lot of sleep. And then they are full-time work for 2 people during the day. I (Nate) will be launching a brand new PAZ site with videos and lots of great new content in the next month or so. After that, I will be starting a big worship CD project with the church. Actually, it’s already started, they’re just waiting for me to start recording!
And in the midst of all of this, we never forget our primary God-given purpose- make disciples! We plan to multiply our cell group early April, which means lots of visiting, sharing Christ, starting discipleships and developing leaders. Whew! But with God’s help, we can do everything He’s called and equipped us to do. Thank you so much for your prayers and support. They continue to have a big impact in and through us!
Aunt Angie Huber shares key points about communicating effectively
I’ve been thinking about this and reading about this. I’ve even been hearing about this. Ruth’s Aunt Angie, also a missionary here in Brazil, gave a great lesson on communicating. A great communicator knows what he wants to communicate and then puts his energy towards that. Everything serves the main goal of communicating that thought. Short and concise is powerful. How many personal testimonies have you heard that would have been great if they were half as long. That’s why everyone likes to film a testimony. Because later they can edit it to be presented with simplicity of purpose. Take the movie Australia for example. If they would have ended it 1/3 of the way through the movie, it would have been much better than it was.
I read an article about simplicity in photography from Ken Rockwell that was humorously well written. Up until the 1980’s, cameras were becoming more and more simple – everything from exposure to focus was being automated and allowed the photographer to stop thinking about technique and think about the subject of his pictures. Great pictures came forth. Photographers could concentrate on their pictures and not their cameras. After all, cameras serve the pictures, it’s not pictures that serve the camera. Then in the 90’s, to sell more cameras, companies began adding “junk” features. Continue reading ‘Simplicity’
Here’s a Christmas present from us to you- pictures of the girls!! The girls are doing very well. Rebecca weighs 7 1/2 lbs and Anna a little over 6 lbs! I’ve been planning to post these pictures for awhile, it’s just that every time I went to post them, I had to leave to help with the girls! Now that Ruth’s family has arrived (Bruno and Beth from São Paulo and Paul from Fortaleza), there’s much more help available, which means Dad gets to mark some things off his to-do list, including this post!
OK- enough talk- look at these pictures!!! Click them to see them larger.
New headbands, on display
Anna getting fiesty in her new summer clothes.
Dad imitating Rebecca!
Mom and Rebecca numa rede (in a hammock).
Mom with Anna.
Anna in her favorite burping position. Oh yea.
Rebecca, on the edge of the pillow, braces for the worst.
Who’s imitating who? Anna, or mom? or both!?
Sharing will have to become normal for the girls!
She must be dreaming of Christmas presents.
Rebecca lends a helping hand. How considerate of her.
Our “White Elephant” cell group celebration was a great time of fun and growing our cell group
My, what a shirt you’ve got, dad. It will look good with spit-up on it.
Grandpa Hrubik and Rebecca
In the midst of adjusting to life as new parents, we’ve had a number of get-togethers and Christmas parties, all to grow our cell group and share Christ’s love. In short- they’ve been great and we’ve been growing our group. Also, I will soon be talking more about a new CD project that is coming together as result of the great MDA Conference we recently had. I’ve been asked to produce the CD for the church which will be launched at next years’ huge Congresso (where we pack the stadium with 30,000+ people for 3 nights)!!! I’m super excited to be a part of this brand new project.
Needless to say, we need your continued prayers for:
Being new parents
Health in the midst of not sleeping much
Special blessing on winning others for Christ and growing them in our cell group
Grace to get my work done with the mission (website, video, etc.)
Blessing on the big CD project coming up
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For now, it’s time to enjoy the holidays and our family. Thank you for your continued love and support, and we wish you a wonderful Christmas full of God’s love and peace. If you have snow, enjoy it!
Sugar and spice and everything nice have taken over on this years’ Christmas Paperback Reutter! Seriously, Dad, get out of the way because this home now has 3 girls in it come Christmas time. Get ready for a house full of pink and purple, talks about clothing and shopping and when the next vacation will be. Life sure has changed as we celebrate both the birth of our girls and the coming of our loving savior Jesus Christ into this world. He is our hope and light and the reason of our great celebration! Click the picture below to download this years’ Paperback Reutter. This was just sent out last week, and if you didn’t receive one in the mail and would like to, contact us and let us know! God bless – now I’m sure there’s a dirty diaper somewhere that has my name on it. Maybe I can find a grandma willing to change it.
Click to download the 2009 Christmas Paperback Reutter
Yes- the girls are back home and doing well! Yesterday (Wednesday) at about 3 PM everyone was released from the hospital and had a wonderful ride back home. Now we are getting settled in. The grandmas are setting up a schedule to help us out and we are sure glad, because having twins is a LOT of work – and it’s only been 3 days! We feel so super blessed and we thank all of you for the wonderful emails and comments. It’s been so neat to see how God is using our story to show off his loving kindness. OK – enough talk – want to see some super cute photos? I thought so! Make sure to click these photos to see them larger. Once opened, you can use your arrow keys to advance.
Oh my! I’m a twin!
Grandma Reutter and Rebecca
Anna Grace (left) and Rebecca Joy (busy sleeping)
Rebecca post 1st bath
The proudest dad IN THE WORLD and Anna
Grandma Hrubik and Anna Grace
Grandpa Reutter and Anna
A Dad with his hands full
Grandpa Hrubik gets his turn
Mom and Rebecca
Rebecca, not too sure about the lighting
The Reutter Family
Even though much of the costs of the births were covered by insurance, the costs of our doctors was not. We got the best doctors in Santarém to do the births- not wanting to risk anything. Our total cost was about R$7,500 (about $4,300 at the current exchange rate). It’s still much cheaper than if we would have had to fly somewhere (in Brazil or the States) and have the births there. If you wish, you can give a special gift towards Rebecca and Anna’s births by clicking here and donating through Project AmaZon. Thanks and God bless!
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The girls are doing very well. Rebecca weighs 7 1/2 lbs and Anna a little over 6 lbs! I’ve been planning to post these pictures for awhile, it’s just that every time I went to post them, I had to leave to help with the girls! Now that Ruth’s family has arrived (Bruno and Beth from São Paulo and Paul from Fortaleza), there’s much more help available, which means Dad gets to mark some things off his to-do list, including this post!
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