Transition Update for the Kunkel Family

 

It seems as if our family is always in some sort of transitions, such is life huh? But these days are bringing some pretty big changes to us as a family. My goal is to share major changes we are in the midst of or going to be entering soon so that you can pray for us more specifically. Thanks for partnering with us in prayer in this season!

Here are some of the big changes happening for us:

• New Baby - Yes we are having another baby girl. Jennifer is due September 23rd. Please pray for safe rest of pregnancy, healthy baby, safe delivery. Pray for strength and wisdom as we guide our older kids and take care of 3 younger ones at the same time.

• Transition from Love Guatemala to New Life Network - I hope you have already seen one of our communications here or a video here about this. But if not we announced about a month ago that we are transitioning out of Love Guatemala to focus more on developing a network of churches here in Guatemala. We are not leaving Guatemala just switching focus. We will still support Katy as she takes over the leadership but from the background to give way for her to lead. Please pray for all the details in this transition. Pray for Ben, Carlos and Katy. We are very excited about this but there are still a lot of details to be worked out for this transition.

• Transition to a new home - Another transition that we will be making later this year or early next year is to move out of the Love Guatemala facilities where we have been living for almost 7 years. Please pray that we can find just the right place for our family at the right price. Also pray for additional funds that need to be raised for this move.

• Transition of New Life Church to Carlos - We have come to an exciting place in our first church plant to transition our church to be led by Carlos Lopez. On September 5th we are installing and commissioning Carlos as Pastor who along with his wife Thelma and the leadership team we have formed will be leading our first church in the New Life Network, Guatemala. Pray for Carlos, Telma and the team in this transition.

Thanks for your continued prayers and support for our family!

Birthday Celebrations, New Baby and Grandma Jane's Visit.

 

Here are a few celebrations and some pics from Ben's Mom's visit. We are enjoying time with her and hopefully Janet, Jennifer's Mom and Levi will be coming on the 24th.

We can't believe Jacob is 15! He is becoming a fine young man.

Jennifer and I still try and get out each week for some sort of date night. It is a necessary time to connect and enjoy each other in the midst of our crazy life.

Caleb and I did a visit to Indy for Levi's surgery in November. He is recovering well but appears that where he had the hole in the roof of his mouth is not staying shut again so pray that closes.

Our baby girl is 2 already! We had a fun time celebrating!

Mama Juana has enjoyed her visit. Here she is with another Juana she met at our church. You may remember her from this blog post where we shared how we built her a home.

We have an addition to the Love Guatemala family. One of our staff members Rosario had a baby a few weeks ago. She is beautiful! 

Thanks for all your support and prayers in 2020! We are looking forward to all God has in store for 2021!

If you would like to give a year end gift to our family you can do so here: www.loveguatemala.org/give and select "Kunkel Family" under areas to support. Thanks!