March Forth! Marssige Edasi!

Today the kids and I walked around the downtown area of Tartu putting up posters for the opening. The posters came out rather nicely, with a white background; red, yellow and blue text; and a full-color picture of the Chalk Farm Band marching. We went armed with a staple gun and looked for the places where others put posters. Fortunately, in a college town there are plenty of wooden surfaces where people promote concerts, pubs and the like, so we would look for the massive groupings of papers and add our part to it.

The nice thing is that the simple look of our poster actually makes it stand out from the splashy design of the others. The kids were so thrilled when, after putting up a poster on one side of a building, we moved to the other side to put up another and looked behind us to see a lady standing there reading the first poster we put up. It almost makes me feel like people may actually come to this!

The kids and I were frozen by the time we finished, so we stopped into a little pageri pood (bakery shop) and each had a pastry and some tea. People here still know how to slow down and take a break, so at every table people we sitting and talking as they ate. When I am feeling like there are a million things to do to get ready for the opening, this is an Estonian trait I want to emulate.

I do ask that you continue to pray for us as we prepare. I have no doubt everything will be good in the end, but it is hard not to worry in the mean time.
--Tim

Tonight we prayed for my mother, Major Hilda Clark.