Von Raeder

California Here We Come!    This Thursday May 4, we plan to fly back to California. Grandson number 3 is due to arrive soon. Our daughter-in-law is having some complications with the pregnancy, and the family is moving, so we want to be available to help them. We plan to stay in the USA through […]

Reaching Women Please pray for our upcoming group training session on My 1st. We will be working with a group of predominantly Hindu women who are at risk due to unstable situations in their lives. We will be leading sessions on stress management, resilience, grief and loss, and trauma. Learning to Thrive Women’s Conference We […]

Prayers and Praise Praise: Praise God that we have 2-3 trainings for our business Learning to Thrive coming up in the next few weeks. We will be providing group training is suicide prevention, resilience, grief and loss, trauma, and stress management. We are traveling to Ilam in eastern Nepal from April 12-20. We will be […]

Hello From Kathmandu! Click here to see a video. Congratulations Joshua Pastor Narbu’s son graduated from kindergarten this week. Good job Joshua! Just when you thought you’ve seen it all! They have a lot of holidays in Nepal and usually they are connected to some deity that is worshiped. They worship a number of different […]

Please Pray Thank God for health and journey mercies on our Marbu and Dolakha Sherpa villages ministry trip. Thankful that our Nepali language tutor seems to be working well with us. Thankful for rain that cleared the air pollution out of Kathmandu for a couple of days. Pray for our business Learning to Thrive. For […]

Please Pray Please pray for: Our upcoming village ministry trip to Marbu and Dolakha March 13-19. Our business development. Our ministry with House of Hope. Our continued language learning. Filing our taxes. Our cultural adaptation. Those in California that are being affected by the snow and flooding. Outreach and discipleship in Nepal. Relational connection. Thanks […]

This post is a video. Click here to view. The Von Raeders in Nepal

The Little Ones Some of the greatest joy we experience is when we get to spend time with the kids of Nepal. It’s the little things, or should we say, “the little ones”, that bring us such joy.    Gomba Please pray for the family, friends, church and village of Gomba. He was killed last […]

Even the Little Things Peggy has been “nesting.” She’s been decorating our flat in Katmandu to feel more like our home. The other day she needed a piece of wire to hang a mirror she had just purchased. Now a piece of wire doesn’t sound like a big deal. Oh, how we take things for […]

Change of Plans We are in the second week of our Nepali language course. We spend at least five hours per day in language study. This includes the three-hour class Monday through Friday, a forty-five minute walk each way to class, and half hour of homework each day. Our instructor Ruth is exceptional, and we […]