Since the last post, Heather and Dustin were married (March 2010), celebrated an anniversary (March 2011), bought a house here in Philadelphia (April 2012), and had a baby (September 2012)! Heather is in her senior year at Mississippi State University in the Social Work program and will be graduating in May of 2013 following her field placement in the spring. She hopes to work with foster care/adoption either with DHS or on the reservation. She works part-time at the bowling alley (as she has for over 2 years now) and thoroughly enjoys working at the front desk, as well as maintaining their Facebook and website, while also having the chance to be creative while designing fliers, menus, signs, slides, coupons, etc. Though she is working fewer hours now that she is in school full-time and a mommy, she enjoys getting out of the house and staying active. Dustin is working full-time as a delivery driver at Aaron's (a home furnishings rental company) here in town. He also continues with his Army National Guard drills one weekend each month. When Heather finishes school this spring, Dustin hopes to start taking courses to earn a degree in Emergency and Disaster Management. For a year, Heather and Dustin were youth pastors at their church in town, but stepped down after finding out that they were expecting a baby! Emelyn Skylar Glenn was born on September 25 at 5:03 PM. After 31 hours of labor, she made her grand entrance at 6 lbs 15 oz and 20 inches long. Dustin and Heather were thrilled to welcome their baby girl to the world, and to have Dustin's mom and dad here from Missouri for the week. Of course, Grandpa Duane and Grandma Laurie were ecstatic to be there for her birth and for the opportunity to see her so often since they live in the same town! Laurie has graciously agreed to babysit for baby Emelyn while Heather finishes school. Heather and Dustin are extremely grateful!
Matt, Brittany and Maile have also had quite the turn of events since the last post. Maile celebrated her 2nd birthday in the Philippines in May, while Matt was a student with the Holoholo DTS through YWAM. (This is the same DTS that Brittany and Heather did a few years ago.) Traveling to the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia gave them plenty of photo ops and ministry ops and they were forever changed by the way the Lord moved in their own lives and in the lives of the people they ministered to and with during their 6 months abroad. After returning to the states in June, they decided to remain in Hawaii where Matt found a full-time computer programming job at the business office of a military base and Brittany babysits full-time for an 8 month old baby girl... who is about the same size as Maile! They are currently living with Matt's parents, Jerry and Karen Terui, on the island of Kaua'i. Their home in Indiana is being rented out, and their belongings are in a storage unit in Indiana and at Duane and Laurie's. Eventually they may have all of their stuff back... maybe!More on Duane and Laurie and their ministry to the Choctaws next time!
