Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🙂 It has been a long time!
Note: I don't intend for updates to be this long in the future 😉 Just catching yall up! Grab a tea or coffee and read on...
TL;DR*
- In 2022 we traveled to South America visiting language partners and YWAM friends.
- After 1 year in the States, we will set out on our next family adventure!
- We will not ask for money for the foreseeable future.
- We are asking for your PRAYERS! We'd love for you to become a prayer partner.
*For those non-techy people, this means Too Long; Didn’t Read a needed section for our 5 second attention spans 😉
Traveling in the Covid era
We got back in January of 2020 just in time for Covid to hit and we couldn’t do any travel or planning! We started to feel the itch after a year in the USA and found some countries opening up in Central and South America in 2021.
We decided to go in faith and in the face of all the fears of the moment. We traveled to Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, and Brazil. Our trip lasted 8 amazing months! I know for many Covid was a very challenging time, but it sure made for great travel conditions.
We visited Macchu Picchu and other sites and beaches with very few others! Where places are usually packed with tourists, the locals were back giving places a more authentic feel.
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BRAZIL SUMMARY
We visited YWAM bases, missionaries and language exchange partners all over South America. I even built a few websites for ministries along the way!
We created some fun “Learn English with Camille” videos on Tiktok and some even went viral in Peru a few times and one made it into a news/tabloid because Camille picked Chilean Ceviche over the Sacred Peruvian one—to be fair it wasn’t her fault 😉
With the new year looming, I (Calvin) have been prompted to start writing again in this next year. Our lives are very different from when we last updated you!
- We felt to let go of any Spain moving plans for now. Perhaps God will open this door again in the future.
- We don’t consider ourselves “full-time missionaries” but of course try to follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit and share the light! We honor those who do feel the full-time call to be missionaries and give their lives up to see His Kingdom come!
- We will not be raising support, so we won’t be asking you for money unless it is for an amazing cause we are working with! God has helped up raise support via our businesses which is a huge blessing. Our goal is to be able to give of our time and resources wherever we are as God prompts.
- We still love travel, culture and languages and feel God has put this passion in us for a reason. We want to continue to learn with our kids as we travel!
Welcome again! We want you to come along this journey with us as God unveils his creative and wonderful plan!
The one thing we ask of you is for your prayers!
We feel the prompting of God to build up more prayer partners for this trip. We want to see his Kingdom come in and through us as we travel. If you want to commit just comment, DM us on social media, or send us an email: cthans@gmail.com so we can know you are praying for us 🙂 Thank you!
If you don’t have a connection with us anymore or are not interested in these updates, please unsubscribe via the email link or email me (cthans@gmail.com). No hard feelings! We love you and bless you!
What's coming in 2023?
We are planning another big adventure, maybe the biggest yet.
We yet again are heading on an open ended trip with our kids starting in Italy in mid January. From Italy, we plan to get to Turkey eventually.
Why these 2 countries?
We visited Italy in 2019 and what is not to love? We have language partners and YWAM friends we’d love to visit! One of Camille’s biggest audiences (with Learn English with Camille) is from Italy so we are excited to see what doors open from that!
We visited Turkey when Maddox was 1 year old! The country has always been of interest for us as well. We started studying the language for fun (or torture?) and continue to learn about this fascinating country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. Again, Turks are a big part of Camille’s audience so we hope to connect more with this audience while in Turkey!
May God lead us!
My instagram will be a spot for quick updates/videos as we travel. Feel free to follow me:
By the way, what kind of updates do you prefer? Text and photos or video posts—or a mix? Let me know in the comments so I can adjust how I update you all.
15 Responses
Love you guys – I was hoping that your Jan/Feb travels would find us together in Mexico, but maybe next year – haha.
Blessings and prayers as you travel to Italy.
Joan and I have a road trip to the Carolinas on our Bucket list – so one of these years we will be knocking at your door – hope you will be home.
Trever and Joan
Yes! We would love more Mexico and Godard time 🙂 come visit us in Italy or Turkey!
Abrazos to all our GDL friends 🙂 miss you guys a lot.
Thank for the updates, friends.You are so welcome in Europe again!
Thanks 🙏 we are looking forward to it again.
Rad
super rad bro 😉 Miss you Jeff
You are rad
Love you guys! Thank you for being a God’s instrument to bless me and so many people.
Love you guys, it’s great to know you’re all well, serving others in so many ways and flourishing…Yes, keep us posted on your amazing family adventures! Lots of love from us here in on the Camino, in Spain
Thanks Alfonso! Os queremos! We’ll hopefully be by in the near future for that delicious santiago cake and good conversations 🙂 Blessings to you and Hope House!
SO GOOD!!
Miss you guys heaps!
Matt! I am so glad to hear from you bro! Miss you too. We will come to Australia on a future trip. My son wants to hit every continent 🙂
Our daughter Chloë did a presentation on Australia. Matt spoke to the class in a video. Chlo got a 9 (out of 10). Now Matt is a celeb in group 6/7 on ‘Het Palet’ in Groningen.
haha I love this! Still connecting Comm Trans 09 🙂
Good morning
Yes it has been awhile
I still have your picture on my fridge, although you have added another son since Ivory was born
My life has changed dramatically in this past year
I lost my husband to a 20 year battle with cancer
It is a journey in the wilderness as I try to navigate life without him
It was good to read all that you have been doing and all your interesting travels
God has great plans for your ministry
Much love to you all
Linda