Dear Family and Friends,
It seems yesterday we were composing our last newsletter, but much has happened in 2006. After an exciting December of 2005 with Narnia on the big screen and a blessed Interim in the month of January, where we taught together a college course for the first time on Developing a Christian Mind with the Help of CS Lewis, we moved to beautiful Tallahassee, Florida, for Paulo’s extended sabbatical at the Center for Advanced Power Systems, at Florida State University. Paulo is involved in several research projects and taught a graduate class on signal processing.
We traveled to Florida with our Dawn Treader and planned to live in it fo
r several months, but decided to rent an apartment after 6 weeks. We still use the Dawn Treader a lot on weekends (at our favorite spot at St. Joseph State Park, right on the beach), but are happy for our small apartment.
We continued to work together on a study guide for the Screwtape Letters and started helping with Intervarsity undergraduate and graduate groups, which has been one of the highlights of our time in Florida. If you do not know we met for the first time in 1974 at an Intervarsity meeting in Brazil. We also traveled to Brazil two times for conferences and technical presentations and had a great time also with friends and family.
In September Adriana decided to have the pleasure of being a student again and started to take classes in Public Health at Florida A&M University. She is also busy with a Lady’s Bible Study at Cornerstone Presbyterian (PCA).
We have decided to be more physically active to fight the increasing stiffness and have been biking and kayaking as much as time and energy allows.
Ana continues to live and work in Haiti. Priscila has completed her MD degree from the University of Michigan and is waiting to know where she will do her residence in OBGyn. Meanwhile she goes to Geneva for a couple of months to work with the World Health Organization. Ruth was accepted for the BFA program at Calvin and completed successfully the fall semester as a junior and worked on the organization of a couple of fashion design shows at Calvin College. The family has seen an addition, as Adriana and Matt had their second child, a beautiful baby boy called Benjamin. Bella is delighted with her baby brother and we are all very happy to see them grow into a nice family. We also had a great time together on the beach during the summer.
We continue to see God’s grace and love towards us and are very thankful for all the blessings and even the difficulties we had to go through this year.
We thank God for you all, friends and family, who continue to enrich our lives with your friendship and fellowship.
May you and your family have a blessed Christmas and joyful 2007.
Please keep in touch!
Paulo and Adriana
We can also click on
http://narnia5255.blogspot.com/
for a pictorial update of our adventures in Narnia.
It seems yesterday we were composing our last newsletter, but much has happened in 2006. After an exciting December of 2005 with Narnia on the big screen and a blessed Interim in the month of January, where we taught together a college course for the first time on Developing a Christian Mind with the Help of CS Lewis, we moved to beautiful Tallahassee, Florida, for Paulo’s extended sabbatical at the Center for Advanced Power Systems, at Florida State University. Paulo is involved in several research projects and taught a graduate class on signal processing.
We traveled to Florida with our Dawn Treader and planned to live in it fo
r several months, but decided to rent an apartment after 6 weeks. We still use the Dawn Treader a lot on weekends (at our favorite spot at St. Joseph State Park, right on the beach), but are happy for our small apartment. We continued to work together on a study guide for the Screwtape Letters and started helping with Intervarsity undergraduate and graduate groups, which has been one of the highlights of our time in Florida. If you do not know we met for the first time in 1974 at an Intervarsity meeting in Brazil. We also traveled to Brazil two times for conferences and technical presentations and had a great time also with friends and family.
In September Adriana decided to have the pleasure of being a student again and started to take classes in Public Health at Florida A&M University. She is also busy with a Lady’s Bible Study at Cornerstone Presbyterian (PCA).
We have decided to be more physically active to fight the increasing stiffness and have been biking and kayaking as much as time and energy allows.
Ana continues to live and work in Haiti. Priscila has completed her MD degree from the University of Michigan and is waiting to know where she will do her residence in OBGyn. Meanwhile she goes to Geneva for a couple of months to work with the World Health Organization. Ruth was accepted for the BFA program at Calvin and completed successfully the fall semester as a junior and worked on the organization of a couple of fashion design shows at Calvin College. The family has seen an addition, as Adriana and Matt had their second child, a beautiful baby boy called Benjamin. Bella is delighted with her baby brother and we are all very happy to see them grow into a nice family. We also had a great time together on the beach during the summer.
We continue to see God’s grace and love towards us and are very thankful for all the blessings and even the difficulties we had to go through this year.
We thank God for you all, friends and family, who continue to enrich our lives with your friendship and fellowship.
May you and your family have a blessed Christmas and joyful 2007.
Please keep in touch!
Paulo and Adriana
We can also click on
http://narnia5255.blogspot.com/
for a pictorial update of our adventures in Narnia.
