Hello everybody! Just want to let you know that we have a new blog/website located at ryanandelysedillon.com
All of our old blog posts and comments from this site have been transferred over, and this will now be the place to find updated information about us and our ministry. Thanks for visiting!!
Monday, August 27, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Heading West
One of the big announcements that I planned on sharing with yall a couple months ago (oops! Sorry it's been so long) was that... We are moving to California!!! In about a month now, actually!
This is in now way a permanent move (much to my parents' dismay), as we will only be out there for about a year and a half. We are partnering with a church in Yountville (just 15ish minutes north of Napa) as their sort of missionaries in residence while we dive into this time of full time support raising.
This is not going to be a long detailed post. We are up to our necks right now with selling pretty much all of our belongings, and we have a garage sale happening this weekend that we are getting ready for :-) Please pray that we get everything sold and that God blesses this time of transition for us and paves the way to California these next few weeks!
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| Yountville Community Church |
As far as housing, there happens to be a sweet little apartment inside the church building that we will be able to live in! Ryan will put in some hours helping with worship ministry, and we get a place to live... pretty good trade off!
Anyway, we are super excited and are in awe of how God works these things out!
Blessings!
R&E
Monday, April 23, 2012
Our 5 days in Germany
Well, it's been about 2 1/2 weeks since we returned from the conference in Germany. I would have wrote about our time there earlier, but I feel like I have needed these last two weeks to wrap my mind around our 5 days in Germany :-) Let's just say, this post is going to be the first of a few big posts about what's coming up in our lives!
First of all... let's talk food.
Apfel Schorle- yummmmm. Apple juice mixed with sparkling water. I usually hate apple juice- but this... this is something totally different. We shared this on our train ride from Zurich, Switzerland (where we flew into) up to Germany. Along with the Schorle we also ate our all time favorite food...
oh yes, Döner Kebab. It's somewhat like a Greek Gyro but ohhh so much better! It was invented by Turkish people living in Berlin. Unlike a Gyro, which is made with lamb, a Döner is made with turkey (at least, that what I've heard). It had been way too long since our last Döner- almost a year! Anyway- just one more food blurb.
German Breakfasts. This photo is just of the remnants... I could never keep it on my plate long enough to take a photo :-) During our week there, I would go to bed at night so excited to be able to get up the next morning and eat more German bread... and salami... and nutella.... and honey..... and herb cream cheese.... and fruits... and, well, the list goes on and on.
We arrived Saturday and spent most of that day setting up for the conference that was to be held the following day. This Kontaktmission conference is an annual gathering of Kontaktmission missionaries and local supporters. The missionaries set up booths all around the conference center and supporters get to see how God is using Kontaktmission workers all over the world while also getting to hear great speakers talk about the growth of, mission of, and opportunities for Kontaktmission and it's workers. It's an exhausting day, but so encouraging and exciting to be a part of. And thankfully, there are headphones available with English translations for those of us who are not quite comfortable enough in our German skills to listen to speakers for 6 hours straight...emmmm yeah, I used those headphones a lot that week.... :-)
I was walking around looking at the different booths and I saw some familiar faces on some of the Kontaktmission flyers!!! :-) We're pretty much famous.
We're on the flyers that promote the summer short term mission trips that Kontaktmission puts together. Which is really exciting actually, because the first mission trip that Ryan and I went on together was on one of these same summer trips to Germany, Belgium and Austria back in 2007. And then last year we got to lead our very own Kontakmission short term summer trip to those same places! :-) We brought back some of the flyers to show some of our friends at our table during the conference.... but some of them got a bit jealous....
After the conference ended, some of us Americans took a little drive to the nearest big city of Stuttgart to have a bit on an adventure and bite to eat. It was great to catch of with these old friends of ours and hear stories about what they're doing for the Kingdom all around the world! After our little adventure, we headed to the retreat center where we would be spending the rest of our week. This retreat part of the week was solely meant for Kontakmission workers to spend time together in lots of prayer and worship, as well as hearing from each other and amazing speakers. We were in the same retreat center as last year and actually, Ryan and I very randomly got assigned the exact room that we had last year! crazy!
Ryan played all week for the little worship band. There was so much great music and talents shared! Wonderful times of worship and prayer were had everyday- it was all so very refreshing and encouraging.
We did get to have a very important meeting with the directors of both Kontaktmission and Kontaktmission USA about the direction of our future on the mission field! We have a couple of really awesome announcements actually.... so stay tuned! I'm hoping to have the first bit of news posted later this week! Thank you for your prayers and encouraging words! We had a great time in Germany, and are so thankful that we were able to be a part of this year's activities again!
-R&E
First of all... let's talk food.
Apfel Schorle- yummmmm. Apple juice mixed with sparkling water. I usually hate apple juice- but this... this is something totally different. We shared this on our train ride from Zurich, Switzerland (where we flew into) up to Germany. Along with the Schorle we also ate our all time favorite food...
oh yes, Döner Kebab. It's somewhat like a Greek Gyro but ohhh so much better! It was invented by Turkish people living in Berlin. Unlike a Gyro, which is made with lamb, a Döner is made with turkey (at least, that what I've heard). It had been way too long since our last Döner- almost a year! Anyway- just one more food blurb.
We arrived Saturday and spent most of that day setting up for the conference that was to be held the following day. This Kontaktmission conference is an annual gathering of Kontaktmission missionaries and local supporters. The missionaries set up booths all around the conference center and supporters get to see how God is using Kontaktmission workers all over the world while also getting to hear great speakers talk about the growth of, mission of, and opportunities for Kontaktmission and it's workers. It's an exhausting day, but so encouraging and exciting to be a part of. And thankfully, there are headphones available with English translations for those of us who are not quite comfortable enough in our German skills to listen to speakers for 6 hours straight...emmmm yeah, I used those headphones a lot that week.... :-)
I was walking around looking at the different booths and I saw some familiar faces on some of the Kontaktmission flyers!!! :-) We're pretty much famous.
We're on the flyers that promote the summer short term mission trips that Kontaktmission puts together. Which is really exciting actually, because the first mission trip that Ryan and I went on together was on one of these same summer trips to Germany, Belgium and Austria back in 2007. And then last year we got to lead our very own Kontakmission short term summer trip to those same places! :-) We brought back some of the flyers to show some of our friends at our table during the conference.... but some of them got a bit jealous....
After the conference ended, some of us Americans took a little drive to the nearest big city of Stuttgart to have a bit on an adventure and bite to eat. It was great to catch of with these old friends of ours and hear stories about what they're doing for the Kingdom all around the world! After our little adventure, we headed to the retreat center where we would be spending the rest of our week. This retreat part of the week was solely meant for Kontakmission workers to spend time together in lots of prayer and worship, as well as hearing from each other and amazing speakers. We were in the same retreat center as last year and actually, Ryan and I very randomly got assigned the exact room that we had last year! crazy!
Ryan played all week for the little worship band. There was so much great music and talents shared! Wonderful times of worship and prayer were had everyday- it was all so very refreshing and encouraging.
We did get to have a very important meeting with the directors of both Kontaktmission and Kontaktmission USA about the direction of our future on the mission field! We have a couple of really awesome announcements actually.... so stay tuned! I'm hoping to have the first bit of news posted later this week! Thank you for your prayers and encouraging words! We had a great time in Germany, and are so thankful that we were able to be a part of this year's activities again!
-R&E
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Hello again
Well, as you can tell we have taken a bit of a break from the blog world. The truth is that we have not had too much going on other than Ryan frantically trying to finish his classes so he can graduate this spring from his masters program and I have been working all the time at the day care and making tons of soap for awesome people to buy :-) It's not at all that we have in any way forgotten our goal of moving over to Germany, it's just that sometime God asks for us to be patient and wait for His perfect timing. It seems as though we have been waiting forever! BUT we do know that it is important to finish up our degrees, pay off school debt and make sure we are set and ready to start strong with full time support raising come May of this year.
Our estimated time of departure for Germany is sometime in the year of 2013!
We do have a trip to Germany coming up at the end of the month actually! At the very end of the month Ryan and I will be leaving for Germany to attend a conference/ missionary retreat at the Kontaktmission headquarters in Wüstenrot. We’ll get a chance to meet with KM missionaries from all around Europe as well as to meet with a smaller group of missionaries to Germany to plan, discuss and pray. We are currently looking for churches and or individuals to prayerfully as well as finically support us so that we are able to go to this conference this year. We went last year and are still amazed at how wonderful of a week it was! We were to be able to make connections with other missionaries to Germany as well as other European countries. We will be flying standby to and from Germany to try and save on airfare, so all in all the week will add up to about $1,500. If any of you would be able to support us in any way (financially and/ or prayerfully), that would be so amazing! Please let me know.
Here are some pictures from last year's conference/ retreat:
We hope to keep up with this blog a lot more as we come closer to our goal of leaving for Germany in 2013! Stay tuned for more updates and to see what going on with me and Ryan!
Love and blessings to you all!
Our estimated time of departure for Germany is sometime in the year of 2013!
We do have a trip to Germany coming up at the end of the month actually! At the very end of the month Ryan and I will be leaving for Germany to attend a conference/ missionary retreat at the Kontaktmission headquarters in Wüstenrot. We’ll get a chance to meet with KM missionaries from all around Europe as well as to meet with a smaller group of missionaries to Germany to plan, discuss and pray. We are currently looking for churches and or individuals to prayerfully as well as finically support us so that we are able to go to this conference this year. We went last year and are still amazed at how wonderful of a week it was! We were to be able to make connections with other missionaries to Germany as well as other European countries. We will be flying standby to and from Germany to try and save on airfare, so all in all the week will add up to about $1,500. If any of you would be able to support us in any way (financially and/ or prayerfully), that would be so amazing! Please let me know.
Here are some pictures from last year's conference/ retreat:
We hope to keep up with this blog a lot more as we come closer to our goal of leaving for Germany in 2013! Stay tuned for more updates and to see what going on with me and Ryan!
Love and blessings to you all!
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