Dear Family, Friends and Supporters,
     Thank you for your continued prayers for our family as we seek God’s direction in our lives. We have made the decision to resign from Wycliffe this summer and for Rick to begin a new teaching job here in North America. God has opened the doors wide to a small Christian school in British Columbia, Canada and he will begin work in September of 2010. This makes for a lot of changes in our lives once again. Thankfully because Rick is Canadian, all of our boys have dual citizen- ship and we obtained their citizenship cards when they were born, so the only immigration work to be done is for Becky. You can pray that it will all go smoothly; it is quite a process and an expense! Rick is excited to be able to move back to his home country after living out of Canada for nearly 17 years. He will be teaching 7th grade for part of the day and middle school / high school art for the remainder.
     As for our support, we will resign in the beginning of June as Rick is still working for Wycliffe on the art curriculum (see example on next page) for the school back in Tanzania. After we resign, we are allowed to receive support for 3 months following the resignation date. This will help to cover us those first few months as we transition to Canada and before his new salary begins. It is your decision as our supporters to choose to continue or not during those 3 months.
     We want to express our gratitude to each and every one of you who has continued to give and have continued to pray. We are so thankful for the sacrifices you make on our behalf; we understand these are difficult times for many. We are so grateful that through your generosity we have had a home to live in, a car to drive and we have been able to even put our boys temporarily in a good Christian school. Words are inadequate to express our thankfulness to you.
 Sincerely, Rick and Becky

      An Update on Ryan: In March, we took Ryan to a plastic surgeon in Billings, Montana (about a 2 hour drive from where we live-for those not familiar with this area). The Dr. was pleased at his progress and did not think it urgent to re-graft the areas behind the knees where the scars have grown quite big and bulky. He has full range of motion in his legs which is our greatest praise!! The Dr. told us he could re-graft them over the summer holidays, but we could wait even longer if we choose. At this point we will wait and see how they mature as he grows and if they become troublesome, then we will take action. Ryan is not very keen on having more surgery and so we will wait until it is absolutely necessary. The biggest thing with burn scars is the mobility and he is doing great with that. He continues to wear the pressure garments daily on his legs and hand.
     Ryan has become involved in many activities at the school; he is taking piano lessons, and is playing the baritone in band class. He is also in Destination Imagination (creative problem solving competition) and his team won 1st Place for Montana (thus the gold medal). The team will be going to Tennessee in May for the Global competition!! He is even dancing with the “Dutch dancers” in their wooden shoes and performed for the Dutch Supper/School Auction that is held yearly here in this small Dutch community.

     An update on our Home Assignment with Wycliffe: In order to fully explain this, we need to go back to part of a newsletter we had written back in May of 2009, a couple of weeks before Ryan’s accident (thus it was never sent). This will give you an idea of what Rick was doing along side of his teaching and how it has lead into our current Wycliffe home assignment and our future work in Canada.
     Rick had the opportunity to share a bit of his passion for creativity and how teachers can use this concept of “renewing the imagination” to encourage students to be who they were created to be. Rick connected with the headmaster of a local Tanzanian Christian school who invited the teachers to participate in a Creativity Workshop at HOPAC. There was a very positive response; many of them desired further teaching and also asked him to teach this to other schools and organizations. We thank God for this opportunity to serve outside of HOPAC and encourage the Tanzanian Christians who have a real heart for their students and the country. We ask for continued prayers in this as it may lead to more workshops in the future. It is very exciting, but we ask for your prayers that we will constantly give over the praise to God, it is His success, we are just tools in His hands.
     Because of our need to leave Tanzania, we were unable to do anymore workshops. This workshop was an extension of what Rick teaches in the classroom so we were placed on home assignment in order to develop a curriculum that will allow other teachers to continue this Christian world view teaching back to the students at HOPAC. Part of the mission of HOPAC is to raise up global Christian leaders. Our hope is that this curriculum will continue to play a role in this endeavor.
The curriculum is set up with step-by-step instructions and demonstrations so that one who is not an art teacher might still be able to teach it if necessary. It also includes power-point presentations that are designed to challenge student thinking.    The goal is to complete this work and send it off to Tanzania before June when we will resign from Wycliffe. This is an overview of one of the curriculum units. HOPAC has many students of differing religions so it is appropriate to teach the students to respond in love to those who might be viewed as enemies. This unit encourages them to learn more about and even learn from other peoples and cultures. Some religions have outward expressions of the holiness of their god built in to their buildings and tapestries through complex, mathematical patterns. It is also interesting that some artists may even purposefully place mistakes in their designs as an expression of their humility before their god. In this unit, the students learn how to create their own complex patterns as they are challenged to also seek their own creative ways to outwardly and reverently express their faith.

     The new school in British Columbia also has a strong desire to build up an extensive art program that challenges students to live out their Christian faith in active and creative ways in their community and they were seeking out someone to lead them in this. So though it may have felt last August that we were being pulled out of our work, we now see that it continues but just in a different part of the globe. Thank you all for walking with us during this part of the journey. The Luth family
Rick and Becky Luth 3450 Lee Rd. Manhattan, MT 59741
email: 6luths@gmail.com
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