Someday :)

I promise to post pictures of our travels soon. I've been out of the country for two months, but I have started catching up on my personal blog which you can read over at jillianspilgrimage.wordpress.com!

On the Road Again...

Hello Everyone! :)

Yes, we are on the road again for furlough/more deputation... and of course time for updates lately has been scarce; as it always seems to be. But we stay busy and love it!

The last few weeks in New Zealand were packed with much ministry/wrapping up or handing over ministries... along with packing and yard sales. It all went amazingly smooth but was very hard to leave all the dear people at church... Bible Club kids... Pukekohe North School... Auckland University Students... the people at the Rest Home... and many others. It's been an amazing four years watching God work and use us and we can't wait to get back... but for now we're enjoying our time home in the States! And though we are absent we know the Lord is still working in NZ! Actually, last week we got word that one of the University Students that we'd been witnessing to and praying for was Saved! That was so exciting to hear... there's nothing more thrilling then seeing people come to the Lord!

As for the actual move... It went smooth as well; and that was through God's help! Everything sold so fast... one weekend and it all was gone. The packing took a bit longer! ;) If you've never tried to get 16 suitcases and 11 carry-ons, plus instruments and computer bags to an exact weight and fit everything into them... well, then you've never experienced the fun we had those couple weeks! Hehe It was a crazy time, but we really did have fun working together!

We flew in on March 6^th... customs and all went very smooth and we managed to make the trip through the airports and 11 hours of flight time without loosing anything; or anyone, for that fact! :)

It was quite different getting back here... everything was different at first. Not that we minded.... it just took some getting used to. But we sure are enjoying all kinds of American conveniences and foods and all kinds of things! Pizza, Ice cream, coffee, English muffins, Sausage & Garvey, Grits, Chocolate, Cold Cereals, different fizzy's, Hoho cakes, pecans, hot cocoa, beans, tortillas... and on the list goes. We've been here for four weeks and still have things to try we haven't had in years. It's fun to go through and try it all again! We feel so spoiled in many ways.

We landed in California and since then have been in, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. We were able to visit with some old friends that are evangelist now in California and in Nevada we were at one of our supporting churches and also visited with a few of my Mom's siblings. Then we made the long trip across the USA and we've been in several other supporting churches which welcomed us amazingly.

Two weeks ago the Lord gave us the bus pictured at the beginning of this post. It's 40 feet long with three slide-outs... and those add a lot of space. Praise the Lord for that... he always provides what we need There was countless purchases we needed to make getting settled in here and our Lord has provided everything we've needed and more in so many different ways. It's so neat to see God take care of his children! What a blessing to serve the King of kings!

Forgive me if I'm being a bit wordy... but I know a lot of people said they've been waiting for updates. I'll post soon again, Lord willing!

I know over 1/2 of my readers are in NZ now... we love you all and miss you and pray for you each day! Keep living for Jesus, your Redeemer! :)

Click below to see some random pictures from our first few days here in the US. All I have is a camera phone right now so I don't have many pictures.

Random Everyday Happenings

Hello Everyone! :) I haven't had much time to post as we've been very busy this past month plus. But I will get around to posting about everything the Lord's allowed us to lately, Lord willing. For now, here is a bunch of random everyday pictures I thought you all might enjoy. For those of you who don't know we have had a family from our home church in New York with us for the last six weeks. They've been a blessing, help, and encouragement... we've enjoyed having the company a lot. Anyways, they're all the other kids in these pictures that aren't Snyders. 

Making Fruit Salad.

With the amount of fruit salad you need to feed this crew it takes team work to get the job done!

Teen Camp - Mission Aotearoa

Finally a post of Teen Camp!  In April  we went down to Otaki for teen camp. It was a GREAT trip. It was great to catch up with friends and the preaching was incredible. 

The Lake

Friends!
Jillian, Amber, Grace, Emmaline, and Beth

All the teens from our church singing plus Beth and Andrea.

The graduates from BOOT Camp singing.

MBBC skit

Pastor Jono's daughter, Kara.

The team leaders with their flags.

Air Force(YAY! lol no we didn't win but it was still a great team!), Marines, Army(The winning team!), Navy

Hello Again...

Hello to all of our blog readers! I know its been a while since we have posted and I apologize for that! I do have many things I would like to post about but I have been so busy over the last few weeks that there just not been time for the blog. The Snyders are all doing very well and continuing to serve the Lord Jesus over here in New Zealand! A lady got saved just a few weeks back so that was a blessing! Our house continues to always be full of neighborhood kids and Bible Club and Church attendance have been rising, which is always a blessing! Two weeks ago we finished up school and are now on summer holiday (Yes, it's summer in NZ!). The Lord has provided a house for us that is not far from where we currently living. It is much bigger and has much cheaper rent which will be a blessing! So we are starting to pack and we move on December 27th!

Now for the project that has been keeping me so very busy! Emmaline and I have made a 2011 Calendar to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible! On each page is facts about the translation, translators, King James I, and much more! We have also started a business named 1611 Press which you can visit at that link! That is our first product and as we add products we will let you know! Everything will be shipped from New York and we can only ship within the United States as of now! If you live outside the United States you can get in contact with me and we will see if we can arrange shipping for you! So go ahead over and see what you think and we hope the Calendars are a blessing to you all!

And because everyone likes pictures, heres a few random ones!

The kids playing Super Dodge ball at a Kiwi BBQ!

Felicity

Alicia Ann

Mercy and Nicolea having fun in the backyard!

Malachi, Alicia, and Felicity

And finally another New Zealand sunset which always makes a wonderful close to pictures coming from New Zealand! :)

AND don't forget to check out the new website!!!!!!!

Bible Club Update

Our Bible Club is going wonderfully! We all enjoy it immensely! We continue to have new children stop in and others that come regularly! Most of the kids seem to enjoy it and listen quite a bit. They always enjoy song time in which they all sing very well and enjoy taking turns holding up the songs that Mom has written out. During lesson time most of them sit quite well and watch the felts and listen to the Dad and Mom as they teach. A few times they have had the privalage of Elianna doing a chalk drawing for them too.

They are all working on verse memorization. We have goal cards with about five verses on each that they are working on. When they finished the first one they also receive with there Certificate of Completion a BIBLE, which has been the big motivator for them! The first gaol card (Romans 3:23; 6:23; 10:10, John 1;12; 20:31) has been competed by six of the children all sence the beginning of the year. We haveWe all enjoying working with them as they memorize their verses. They are all so different; some have a harder time memorizing and others can do several verses a day. We have one girl who was telling me one day that the reason that her goal card was so rinkled was because she falls asleep working on her verses so the paper got a bit worn out. But what better why for her to fall asleep reading the Word of God!

Dad presentingperesenting Ajay and Mikayla with there Certificate of Completion and Bible.

Mikayla with her certificate and Bible!!!

Shequelia, Nicolea and Mercy finished the same week!

Shiquelia

They often call Dad the "Trust Jesus Guy" as this is what he wares to club!

These three girls are so cute! No, this is not the best picture as this was snapped during the lesson.

The Wise Man and the Foolish Man lesson.

Elianna chalking during the lesson!

The finished product!

Ok, yes we do wear them out at Bible Club! Oh, well, the truth is they were having rolling contest down they hill.

The kids here are little monkeys!

Playing games! Yes, this picture is all Snyders, well and Elianna but we claim her!!!

L to R is Malachi, Matthew, Ezra, Mercy, Elianna, Felicity.

Elianna working Irini

Matthew and Ajay working on Memory verses.

Mom working on verses with some of the new kids!

An Update and Pictures

~Hello from New Zealand once again. We are all doing very well and keeping very busy as normal. Praise the Lord! Elianna, a young lady from our home church, flew in on the 30th of January and will be staying for two months. So we have all been greatly enjoying seeing someone from home. She has been such an encouragement an help to all of us. Last week we went to a church north of us and Dad preached for them and we all greatly enjoyed the time with another church. We continue to letter box, door knock, and street preaching. Nursing home is still going well and Bible Club is going great. We have really nice hot sunny days now as it is almost mid summer. So thats just a quick update and here are some pictures taken recently.

Auckland

The City of Sails!

Elianna and Emmaline reading Sword of the Lord's from 1970-1973.

Another beautiful sunset. This is part of the sunset we can see from our porch every night. I love the sky in New Zealand.

On one side it is raining and on the other it is not as you can see!!!

I think this is a pumpkin field.

Bags of potatoes in the field.

Elianna out door knocking.

Malachi, Felicity, and Alicia playing in the park after door knocking.

Elianna and Emmaline

Elianna and Jillian

Nicolea, Emmaline, Elianna, and Jillian enjoying a rest in the park after door knocking.

L to R is Alicia, Ezra, Emmaline, Elianna, Nicolea, Matthew, and Malachi enjoying refreshing lemon ice blocks.

Dad and Matthew out street preaching Friday night.

Another sunset; this time seen from town.

On our way to church Sunday morning!

Elianna and Emmaline sewing

Happy Linda!!!

Four Little Girls and Apples

~Here are some really cute pictures of the four little girls enjoying apples! It was a sunny warm day and around the corner of one of the buildings walks two little girls both eating apples. And of coarse when Mercy saw I was taking pictures she had to jump in and then I was informed that Linda was inside in her walker eating an apple. So of coarse I had to take pictures of her too.

On the porch in the back yard!

Mercy comes to join the party!!!

The three youngest

~Oh and I ought to give you a just quick update to let you know how we are all, too. We are all doing very good. It is spring here and we are all enjoying the wonderful, longer, warm, sunny days! We have a few small gardens in our yard and those are doing good thus far. We also keep busy with general stuff around the house and school. The ministry is going well and also is keeping us busy, but we all love it! We are now having Bible Club at the Hall at the Pukekohe North School. That is going well and the kids are becoming more regular. We also go door knocking and letter boxing often. Well, that is the some of what is going on here.