The Hellands in Holland

Stichting New Life Netwerk- (IPHC) We have now officially set up New Life Netwerk as a foundation (stichting) here in the Netherlands. The four members of the founding board were made up of Pastor Grace and her assistant pastor Mary along with Juan Sarmiento who is a part of my core team for our church in West Amsterdam. This was a historic moment as we now have two churches officially in New Life Netwerk. Pastor Grace's church is in the Bijlmer (South East Amsterdam) and she reaches primarily people from Africa, Suriname, and the Caribean. Our new work in West Amsterdam also has a multi-cultural flavor in that we are made up of not only Dutch, but of other nations. Juan comes originally from Venezuela and I come from Chile/USA. (We never know if we should speak in English, Spanish, or Dutch with each other). We are excited about the official birth of NLN and look forward to what God has in store for us.

Ten more weeks until my due date, November the 9th, and the pregnancy is going great. I had to be tested for pregnancy diabetes, because Judah weighed 10 pounds at birth (which is usually an indicator for diabetes). But yesterday the results from that came in and my blood sugar is normal! Praise God! No sugar free diet….! We are expecting a little girl. We have picked a beautiful name…Hannah Grace. Judah calls her “Hannah Gracie”. Talking about Judah…we just celebrated his birthday on the 17th of August. He loved it! It was the first time he could realize that this was all for him and he is still singing birthday songs. He is just developing so quickly, he learns new words every day and because I speak to him in Dutch, he is picking up Dutch real fast. Here are some pictures!!