Family Visits

Sheila's "Brittish Sister" Betty flew down for a weeks visit. We had an extra bonus when Sheila's Uncle Gary from Linn Mo., and his cousin Harold Schmidt were able to stop in for a few hours also! We had a great family time and we got a chance to explore the area a bit as we "showed them around". The Autum colors were amazing, so we went for a hike in the country and took lots of pictures. Betty has been living in England for 27 years now, so she was a great help teaching me some of the differences in cooking over here. It's a whole new way of doing things. She also brought me some crisco,and chocholate chips which are very expensive here and sometimes hard to get.

It was a surprise to us that family made it here to Kandern Germany before our house hold goods shipment did. It has been stuck in England for over a month now, tied up in customes and who knows what else. But it has now officially cleared customes and is scheduled for delivery on November 16th. We are still praying for it's timely and safe arrival.

We have been doing fine in our appartment without our "stuff". Only because we live in a community that is built on faith........ “Every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith.” Gal. 6:10 (Message)

When we moved into the appartment it was stocked with many of the things we would need. We purchased a few things, borrowed some, and have received gifts of warm clothes, dressers and such from the BFA community. We bought a dryer for 40 Euros and borrow a rolling pin from the downstairs neighbors every Friday so we can continue our tradition of home-made Pizza on Friday nights. We have adapted our Pizza, popcorn, and movie night to game night since we don't have a TV. It has been a great blessing to live in such a communtiy.

Blessings to all, and I hope to add photos soon.
Love in Christ,
The Pogson Family

We're Here! We're Here! We're Here!

Every morning, when I open the rouloten (window shade) in the girls room, I am surprised to see Kandern Germany outside my window. I thank God for the beautiful day He made for us, and for our partners that make it all possible.

The girls are enjoying 1st grade. They just love their teacher Mrs. Schmidt (and so do I). She pays close attention to their spelling and handwritting. They are starting to adjust to their sack lunches; eating competes with playground time and the lunches were loosing out the first few days. They especially like PE with Mr. Pelton (Marty). They have made friends that speak English (from Great Brittan) German, and Sweedish. They still share a room at home and start AWANA next Tuesday. With our dearly loved Jesse Frank!

We have been walking a lot, and it has been wonderful. We live up a pretty good size hill and I buy a few groceries at least once a day. Saves me gym membership fees and allows me to enjoy the German bread and Swiss chocolate as much as I want. We had a couple rainny days though, and I am now a little more motivated to look for a family van.

I can't believe it's already September. Last year after halloween, the girls told me they wanted to dress up as veggie tale charachters. Silly me; I said "sure! I'll have to make the costumes, but we can figure it out.". Now what do I do?!? I only have a needle and a little thread. I don't know if I should call McGuiver or Martha Stewart! I also have some curtains to sew, I guess I'm going to have to buy some more thread, or maybe that hem stuff you just iron on.

We are settling into our new home and our new jobs. We have everything we need and expect to get our shipment from the states in early October. Then we will have more clothes, food, and kitchen things. Brian's job is keeping him busy, he has a lot to get up to speed with, but is already being a great help. I enjoy the low stress of the library job and look forward to getting to know the students better as time goes on.

We have more prayer cards now. If you do not have one, or if yours was blured with the print of our last newsletter, then please let us know. We can send you another one.

Letters and emails are welcome! We would love to hear from you. If you send care packages, keep the cost of the contents below $50. Or we have to pay custome fees in order to get them. Some things we don't have here are: maple syrup, brown sugar, and ranch salad dressing.

Take care, and please let us know if you have prayer requests. May God Bless you and those you Love: Brian, Sheila, and the girls

We're going to Germany!

After a lot of prayer and thought we've decided to go ahead and move to Germany even though we are only at 40% funding for the year. We will be leaving on August 21.

We will self fund for the deficit, however we will be back in the States next summer support raising in the hope that God will provide enough funding for 100% the following year.

It’s just another step of faith as we truly believe that BFA is where God would use us.

We will continue to try and raise support while in Germany as well, so please continue to keep us in your prayers.

Pray for our upcoming transition and our support needs that we still have.

If you feel lead to support us, please review the links on the right side of this page or feel free to contact us by email at bpogson@janzteam.com or by phone for the next week at 408-393-9471.

Also, to partner with us financially please check the following link http://sites.google.com/site/pogsoninfosite/Home/Pledge-AWDForm%28Combined-fillable%29.doc?attredirects=0

Thank You! Thank You, to those of you who have come along side and partnered with us to enable this to happen. Praise GOD! for your faithfulness.

Back in St. Louis

We're back in St. Louis for a while visiting Sheila's sister Barbara (Jeanie).

Finishing up support raising in the hope of being in Germany before the end of August. We are so close I can almost smell the brautwurst.