After over a year of waiting, we finally got to have our first visitors!

Unfortunately, after almost a year of warding it off, COVID-19 made its way to the Village in early February. 

Guess what?!

Have we got some news for you...

As of January 5, we have officially been living in Jamaica for one year!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...at least in our house!

Interested in visiting? We may have a solution...More about that, our hurricane experience, and more!

Another month under our belts here in Jamaica! This time we can say: "See you soon!"

6 months here and we've got some news!

Things certainly don't look like how we imagined they would in Jamaica (and the world) right now, but we are trusting God has us here in this season for a specific purpose.

We pray this newsletter finds you well, healthy, and not totally stir-crazy!

We have been in Jamaica now for two months, and can't believe how time is flying. In February, we got to take part in a number of opportunities for the ministry here, and are looking forward to what's ahead in March

We can't believe we have already been living in Jamaica for one month now! In some ways we are amazed it has been a month, but in many ways it feels like much longer than that!

We made it!!!

What a year 2019 has been!

The fact that we leave for Jamaica in just two months is mind-boggling (and a little overwhelming!)

September has been a really sweet time for our family as we get to know Silas better each day!

Welcoming the newest Bloemendaal!

We can hardly believe that it is already August - summer has flown by!  This past month we returned from missions training in Colorado and spent some much needed time with family and friends!

Happy July, everyone! We are now back home in West Michigan from our four weeks in Colorado at Mission Training International.

May has been quite a month - it's difficult to know where to even start in sharing about it. The past few days alone have been incredibly eventful, so bear with us in this newsletter as some of this has *technically* happened in June :)

Happy May, everyone! We can hardly believe this is our last full month of working at our jobs.

A longer newsletter, we just have so much to share from our time in Jamaica!

Boy have we got news for you...

It's true! The Lord has blessed us with the incredible gift of pregnancy. We were initially in total shock when we found out, but we are absolutely thrilled and honored to be entering into the role of parents.

2019 is going to be a big year for the Bloemendaal family!