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We have had an eventful past two months. Amy had a case of dengue fever at the end of January, and was in the hospital for a few days for monitoring, as her platelets dropped significantly. Thankfully, all went well and there were no complications. Thank you to those of you who prayed for her during that time. We were grateful for our community of friends here as well, as they pitched in and watched the kids, stayed at the hospital with Amy and were generally supportive and encouraging during that time.

This update can be found, along with additional updates, pictures and information at facebook profile "Jeremy Simons" or blog: http://immersionjournal.blogspot.com/

October 30, 2009

Dear Friends and Family,

Kids with grandma at a local bird sanctuary

Happy Fall and Halloween, hope you are enjoying the cooler weather!  We have had a particularly hot September/October, but today, we are enjoying cloudy skies, which makes it just a bit cooler.  Some of you were concerned about the recent typhoons that his the Philippines.  Here in Davao, we don’t experience them directly, but get a bit of rain out of the storms because trade winds carry them to the northern Philippines. We are really saddened by the destruction in Manila but we encouraged by the response of the communities here to send money, supplies, food, etc. for the relief efforts.

The past 3 weeks we have had visitors from out of the country.  Amy’s parents spent 1 ½ weeks with us which was a really lovely, encouraging time to show them our life here.  Then our regional supervisor from California spent another week for his periodic check in with us.  A lot of other things have happened in the past two months that we would like to share with you.