Easy Peasy All-in-One High School

I never got around to writing a life update in January of this year. Well, here we go. We’ve had a different kind of year. My husband and I will have been away from each other around 80 days this year. That’s extremely unusual. We’re together a lot, like all the time. The majority of that time apart was helping his dad after surgery. Being a few hours away and in the same time zone is very different than when he was on the other side of the world doing ministry, though. While he was in Maryland and I was in Pennsylvania, we had five phone dates daily and he could come home each weekend, and so we made the best of it. Our parents are in their eighties and needing more help these days.

My husband, Dave, affectionately known as Mr. G by our Easy Peasy family, has a gift of encouragement. While he is gifted in languages which he uses in Bible translation, and he is a teacher, which he uses for EP and also in creating teaching materials in the Bible translation language, one other way in which the Lord really uses him is in a ministry of encouragement. Mr. G has relationships with pastors and Christian leaders all over the world. He meets with them online, prays with them, and occasionally visits them. On his recent trip to India, they kept Mr. G busy. They had him speak in gatherings up to three times a day, baptized dozens of people, and prayed for who knows how many people individually. At first I was frustrated that they had him doing those things that Dave and I would both say are best done by the locals, but then I realized how encouraging it was to the whole church instead of just the two leaders he went to see. Some people walked long distances to meet Mr. G, hear him preach, have him pray for them. He was the first foreigner to visit some of these churches. It means a lot to them that someone knows they exist and cares about them and is praying for them.

My daughter has started her Master’s degree. She’s in fine art, a painter. The program is full scholarship. She is required to teach one art class each semester, so she gets great experience along with the education. She also won a $48,000+ stipend from the school over the two-year program. It’s to cover living expenses, but the Lord provided a $200-a-month apartment with free food! So, she is saving up all she can. She’s already looking into PhD programs. She’s a great student. She loves all that reading!

My oldest son moved to Florida a year ago. He goes to the beach daily and has taken up roller blading. He loves the lifestyle. He has his own online company and is doing well. He’s found a church he really likes and some people he really likes. One of the Lord’s provisions for him was that he met someone from his Discord group for his business who lived in Florida. They got together when my son moved down there and it turns out this guy had lived in Turkey and Macedonia too, just like my son. What are the odds of finding someone his age with that shared life experience? They became fast friends.

My youngest is in fifth grade. There aren’t any little kids around the house any more. Dave and I enjoy daily dates when he’s home, though that includes grocery shopping and errands!

I have added new courses on the site, including math, though Bible courses have been a focus of late. I am continually writing devotionals for the Good Morning, Lord! series. I have been putting out short books of Christian teaching as well. I have recent books on the word of faith doctrine, sin, and faith. My latest, which is still in editing, is called Becoming Nothing That Christ May Be All. I added more miracle videos to the site as we experienced more miracles! I’ve done interviews. The most recent was with a student researcher doing a project on social entrepreneurship. I also recently talked with a volunteer looking to use EP in a ministry to help adults get their high school diploma. EP’s gone around the world. Now it looks like we’re going into prison!

EP is a gift to all of us. It’s a testament to the goodness of God.