Now, I am sure that getting a kiss from a face that looks like this is HIGH on your "life is now complete" list!! Caleb cannot resist baby Victoria, our Deputy Country Director's daughter (Jean Paul). Victoria is one of those perfect, beautiful Rwandan babies that steal our hearts here. She wakes to the sounds of cows lowing and chickens crowing on her daddies farm. She snuggles with her mommy and aunties and eats a high protein mixture of cereal that mostly makes it into her mouth! Victoria has a wonderful life and reminds us often of how good life can be for a baby here if we keep working hard towards increasing our child survival and child development programs. For many children here in Rwanda, just surviving to age five is the greatest trial they will endure. Victoria is so very, very blessed for this is not her case. Caleb and Victoria are special friends as children of our incredibly creative, infinitely compassionate God!!
It is this same compassionate God that has been talking to the Bauman Tribe about making an unexpected change--yet again--in our lives. World Relief has asked Stephan to become the Vice President of Programs. Wow... sounds pretty big! So if I was to take a snap shot of what that looked like, maybe the images would look something like this:
-Visiting our programs in Sudan, canoeing down the Nile with our Sudanese and Dutch nurses as they contemplate the huge task before them in a war torn country;
-Encouraging our Cambodia, Indonesia and China staff as they work through the many trials that accompany multiple disasters and difficult political systems, and;
-Strategizing with our Rwanda team as they consider the next phase of deepening our healing impact throughout the country.
So, with this little snapshot book, we announce to you our dearest friends that we will be relocating to Baltimore, MD (and the World Relief Head Quarters) in January 2007. We will be staying RIGHT HERE in our hearts and minds, as this promotion only affords the Bauman Tribe a BIGGER world to be a part of (Africa, India, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and right at home with our refugee relocation throughout America). We will not be leaving Rwanda until the new year, so please keep remembering us as we make this transition to another new culture... our own!
It is this same compassionate God that has been talking to the Bauman Tribe about making an unexpected change--yet again--in our lives. World Relief has asked Stephan to become the Vice President of Programs. Wow... sounds pretty big! So if I was to take a snap shot of what that looked like, maybe the images would look something like this:
-Visiting our programs in Sudan, canoeing down the Nile with our Sudanese and Dutch nurses as they contemplate the huge task before them in a war torn country;
-Encouraging our Cambodia, Indonesia and China staff as they work through the many trials that accompany multiple disasters and difficult political systems, and;
-Strategizing with our Rwanda team as they consider the next phase of deepening our healing impact throughout the country.
So, with this little snapshot book, we announce to you our dearest friends that we will be relocating to Baltimore, MD (and the World Relief Head Quarters) in January 2007. We will be staying RIGHT HERE in our hearts and minds, as this promotion only affords the Bauman Tribe a BIGGER world to be a part of (Africa, India, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and right at home with our refugee relocation throughout America). We will not be leaving Rwanda until the new year, so please keep remembering us as we make this transition to another new culture... our own!
