Category: Case News

Dear Team Members,

It is hard to believe that we are nearing the end of 2015! This year is flying by, and for each of us, we are sure there have been good times and also sad times! How thankful we are to know our hope is in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and not our circumstances.

Having turned 71 in October, I had to laugh when on TV they were talking about an elderly person and said her age was 71. So guess I have joined the ranks of the elderly! Guess Charlie will have to wait a few months before he is elderly .

Dear Team Members, October 10th, 2015

Hi there from Central Florida! Where autumn is settling in with a bit cooler weather  For those who are enjoying colorful leaves, pleased also enjoy them for us!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For our Australian friends, it sounds like summer is hitting you with a vengeance!!!!

We’ve been looking at the list of countries represented in the Teaching English Classes we are involved in. In Charlie’s class there are folk from El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Iran, Spain, S. Korea, and China. In Cherrie’s class there are folk from Puerto Rico, China, S. Korea, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, and Guatemala. What a privilege it is to serve these folk. We certainly appreciate your prayers for each of us teachers, the students, and for our time together to be profitable.

Dear Team Members, 

“G’Day” from rainy Central Florida! That, as you would remember, is “Good Day” in Australian lingo!

From our last Update: This school year, on every other Wednesday, after the morning lesson of teaching English as a Second Language, Charlie will be teaching a Bible Study for anyone interested in staying to have the Bible Study and have pizza for lunch. Registration and classes started on September 2nd. He has been looking into teaching chronologically through the Bible, and found a course that a man we know wrote in a book called “The Lamb”. John Cross wrote the information which can be used in teaching ESL students. John is the one our son Ben went to Indonesia with many years ago when John headed up producing a video on the Taliabo people and their journey to finding Jesus Christ as their Savior. Charlie is looking forward to this teaching time, and would appreciate your prayers for him, and for more ESL students to join the class. Last year there was only a few that wanted to stay.

Dear Team Members,

What a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Trust you are having beautiful weather also with NO SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You all have a SPECIAL place in our hearts, and we trust the Lord to be your constant encouragement 

Dear Team Members, April 1st, 2015

Our love to you from sunny Florida with some beautiful spring weather 

Teaching English as a Second Language each week is fun, a challenge, and a privilege as we seek to equip these dear folk to survive here in the USA and in the years to come. I (Cherrie) am a helper to a head teacher for the beginner class. Since we are teaching under the umbrella of a Church, we are able to incorporate Bible truths for which we are thankful. I am often asked to teach the verse for the week. With Easter being this coming weekend, our verse for this week is from Mark 16:6 and what a verse that is!!!

Yes, Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins and was buried. BUT He is no longer in the grave – He arose from the dead.

WOW, what a TRUTH to convey to our students!!!! Please join us in prayer for each of these precious students that each of them will put their faith in Jesus Christ as their Savior and become His child!!!!

Dear Team Members, February 6th, 2015

G’Day from SUNNY FLORIDA! Crazy – as I started typing this it was 60 degrees out, but I was cold and could not get warm. Can’t complain though with the HORRENDOUS WEATHER folk in our home town area of Massachusetts have received  Hard to believe they got close to THREE FEET OF SNOW and MORE CONTINUES!!

Dear Team Members,

Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, but we are forever thankful for our Savior, our family, and each of you!

As we look back over 2014 we are thankful that we were able to visit our son Ben and his family in Australia, our son Ray and his family in Kansas, and our daughter Esther and her family in New York! We were also able to visit some of our extended family, and also many friends.  It was thrilling to see our newest great-grandchild Zaiden in Kansas, and newest grandson DiMaggio in New York making eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren!

Dear Team Members,

Greetings from cold Florida! Sure is changeable weather! At least God is not changeable and for that we are thankful. His love is constant and sure!

We had such a lovely day on Saturday. Charlie’s cousin Andrea and her husband Howie, moved to Ocala, Florida, about an hour and a half from us, and they came over for the day. We talked and looked over old photos, and laughed and laughed!

Dear Team Members, 

Our love to each of you from the Deep South and hot and humid Sanford, Florida!

Welcome to a New School Year! That sounds odd for us in our late 60’s, but it is the new school year for us “Teaching English as a Second Language” as an outreach as a volunteer! And the first time for us, so it is BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! Charlie will be involved in two classes, one being literacy (reading and writing English) on Tuesday nights, which I know he will enjoy  Both of us will be involved in teaching English as a second language (speaking English) – Cherrie on Tuesday nights and Charlie on Wednesday mornings. We would appreciate your prayers for all of the staff involved (all volunteers). Up to this point in time there have been thirty seven countries represented as students! Not sure yet what countries will be represented this coming school year that starts on Tuesday September 2nd.

July 3rd, 2014

Dear Team Members,

Greeting from hot sunny Florida where air-conditioning is MOST welcomed!

It is hard to believe that half of 2014 has gone by! Memories are SPECIAL and we thank the Lord for being able to visit “Down Under” to see our son Ben and his family, and on our way back to see our son Ray and his family in Kansas! Now this month we will get to see our daughter Esther and her family and our newest grandchild Dimaggio in New York  God is soooo GOOD and we thank Him for these SPECIAL times!

Dear Team Members,

It is hard to believe we are “Down Under” at this SPECIAL time of the year!

You are ALL SPECIAL to us! How we thank the Lord for your lives and for the part you have in our lives. We know He is using you “Where He has planted you” :o) We trust Him to bless and encourage each of you now and in 2014! Please share with us any prayer requests you have so we can continue to be praying for you.

We left the USA just in time, as we have heard of the horrendous winter weather that has hit so many of you. We trust the Lord to watch over each of you around the world. It has been in the 80’s and 90’s here and ever so winter. Actually the weather has been really changeable which is probably why Charlie got sick not long after our arrival. He is some better for which we are thankful.

We are enjoying SPECIAL times with our son Ben, his wife Stephanie, and our grandchildren Jayden(14), Ashton (12), Llahna (10), and Kyan (7). What a joy it was for us to be here when Ashton and Llahna were baptized on December 8th as an outward expression of their faith in Jesus Christ as their Savior. They both wanted their grandfather to be part of their baptism which was SPECIAL.

Please be praying for our son Ben with his back problems. At this writing his back has gone backwards and not doing well again. We trust the Lord to heal and give wisdom to the doctors in these days. Know Ben appreciates your prayers.

Dear Team Members,

Our love to you from the “Land Down Under!” We trust this finds you well and encouraged in the Lord!

We arrived safely in Australia at 11:30AM last Wednesday to waves, smiles and hugs as Ben, Stephanie, and our four happy, talkative grandchildren welcomed us home for three months. We hadn’t even got all the way down the exit ramp from Immigration when the two youngest grandchildren, Llahna and Kyan, ran to us with out-stretched arms!!!!!

It was a fairly comfortable flight though exhausting. We say fairly as from the time we flew out of Kansas until we disembarked in Sydney it was 28hours! I (Cherrie) dozed some, but Charlie did not sleep a wink. My low back and legs have really suffered so would appreciate your prayers. I was pleased to have my collapsible walking cane with me. Actually we were up about 43 hours before crashing and sleeping soundly in the absolutely lovely, comfortable, relaxing granny flat (in-law flat for our American friends) that friends John and Vicky Lamplough are sharing with us here in Valley Heights, NSW. WHAT A THRILL TO WAKE UP TO THE SOUND OF KUKKABURRAS LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Team Members,

The time is soon at hand for us to make our way back home to Australia to see our son Ben and his family living there and visit co-workers and friends. In our minds our arrival in February 1973 seems only yesterday! BUT of course our bodies tell us otherwise, especially now that we have two great-grandchildren!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much for the part you have in our lives. God bless each of you so much!

We start driving to Kansas on November 13th to see our son Ray and his family and of course our newest great-grandchild who we have not yet seen. Our daughter Esther and family live in Poughkeepsie, New York, so our children are spread around the world. We are thankful that Esther’s pregnancy is going well! Recently she has had a BAD cold so know she would appreciate your prayers for good health these days. She is due mid-May.

STOP PRESS: GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our daughter Esther and her husband Ricky are expecting another baby around May 18th, 2014! We are SOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY FOR THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Team Members,

How we thank the Lord for the part you have in our lives not only in the past, but also now.

Thank you so much for your part in our lives. Thank you so much for your prayers. Without prayer, neither you nor we would be effective!!!!

Just this past week Connie Cain, who is one of our elderly retirees had to be admitted to the hospital and stints were put in to help with his ongoing heart problems. Up until now the doctors refused to do this due to his already severe bad health. Family thought Connie would not be with us much longer, BUT GOD spared his life and gave Connie more time to be with us here on earth. Connie and his wife Mary have a BIG part in the Prison Ministry that Cherrie is involved in. How thankful we are for his improved health!

Dear Team Members,
G’Day from central Florida! We haven’t seen any alligators lately – just mosquitoes and hot weather. Not quite sure how we coped many years ago without central air-conditioning!

GREAT NEWS: Our 2nd Great Grandchild was born August 29th to Charles and Shawna Case. Zaiden Alexander Case – 7 lbs 15 oz 21 ½ inches long! All are doing fine. Of course I can hear Charlie saying “It is good to be a Great Grandfather, but not sure about being married to a Great Grandmother!”

July 30th, 2013

Dear Team Members,

Our love to each of you across the miles.  We thank the Lord for each of you and trust Him to bless and encourage each of you day by day.

Since mid-June we have felt more retired even though we are becoming more involved again here at our New Tribes Mission Retirement Village.  We are helping as receptionists at various times answering the phone and being there for folk at the main desk in our Assisted Living Building.  Charlie is also helping with Notary Public needs, helping when our Chaplain is away, being on call as needed, and teaching our adult Sunday School Classes at Victory Baptist Church.  Cherrie has also started helping on Wednesday mornings in a Prison Ministry correcting the Bible Study papers prisoners are doing and is really enjoying that.  We continue to trust the Lord to guide us day by day.

AN AWESOME WEEKEND!

Our 50^th anniversary celebrations started early when a UPS truck delivered a package late Thursday afternoon the 13^th of June.  Inside the box that said “Washing Machine” on it were two frames, hand made by our son Raymond in Kansas, in the shape of a 50!  It was a collage of up to date photos that all three of our children had worked on. Yes, worked on, by sending photos to Ray in Kansas from Australia and New York!  The photos were of our three children, their spouses, their children, and our great grand-daughter!  Perfect!

 June 4th, 2013

Dear Team Members,

Can you believe it?  We just unpacked our cases again!  Looks like we could be home now for a while – MAYBE!

We had the joy of being able to go up near Atlanta, Georgia over Memorial Day weekend so we could go to the military Cemetery in Canton, Georgia.  That is where Charlie’s mother has been buried.  The cemetery is beautiful!  Each grave has their own headstone and they were able to do the inscription on hers by the weekend. There was a Memorial Day program on Saturday the 25th and it was so encouraging!  We are so thankful Charlie’s Mom (Mum for our Australian/NZ friends) could be buried in this cemetery.  Charlie’s Dad died during WWII before he was born and a ruling allows the spouse to be buried in a military cemetery.

Dear Team Members,

Yikes, where do we begin?  So much has been going on in our lives!

Two weeks ago we had our daughter Esther, her husband Ricky, and their little girl Desirae, who will be three in June, here to visit us.  We had so much fun going to the Sanford Zoo, the beach, and also Sea World.  The weather that week was unusually hot and fun beach weather!  They are now back home, but we have special memories that will last forever!

Dear Team Members,

As we started this letter it was Food Friday.  I was going to say the day that changed the world, but without Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday there is no hope, but Jesus Christ did rise from the dead, so we have an eternal hope for which we are so thankful!!

Dear Team Members,

Greetings in our Savior’s precious Name from sunny Florida.  It is hard to believe we have been home four weeks already!  I keep looking back on our trip with MORE SPECIAL MEMORIES!  The day before we left our home town in Massachusetts, we were able to celebrate my older sister Bonnie’s 71st Birthday along with my younger sister Lynda and most of their family.  The years fly by and we cherish the times we have together.  Bonnie presented us with a set of six gift boxes of chocolates to enjoy on our journey back to Florida, so with our trunk packed, back seat packed to the ceiling, and six boxes of chocolates under my feet we headed out on our journey back to Florida!  Of course they were finished before we got back!

Dear Team Members,

Greetings from us Cases who are unpacking our cases! With over 11,400 miles behind us we are getting settled and are now, at times, enjoying temperatures in the high 70’s and not freezing weather like it was up north!  Last night it got down to around 50 degrees, but that’s not bad!  Two weeks ago before we arrived in Atlanta, we drove through a horrible blizzard with about 12 inches of snow.  The highway was not being plowed as it was peak hour traffic, semi-trucks were stuck, one of our windshield wipers looked like it was going to snap off, and constant prayers were going up!  Though we could not get up the hill to the motel in Hillsville, VA, Charlie was able to sort of turn around and head back down the hill so we could go through two restaurant parking lots and eventually get up to the motel :o)  Now safe and warm, for supper we enjoyed snacks and cereal we had with us :o)  It did look like a winter wonderland in the end :o)  Charlie did not call it that!  The next morning about 14 minutes after we were on the road there was no snow on the ground!

Dear Team Members, WOW it is hard to believe it is the end of 2012.  Recently we heard that “Life is like a roll of toilet paper.  The closer you get to the end the faster it goes!” We trust this finds each of you well and encouraged in the Lord.  The northern cold weatherContinue reading December 31, 2012

Dear Team Members,

At this Special time of the year we reflect on the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, knowing that without that without Him, life would be hopeless.  What peace and joy we have knowing we serve a risen Savior.  The names on the other side of this letter reflect His character and can give peace to this troubled world.

Dear Team Members,

Greetings from us Cases living out of cases! This update is from our home town of Fitchburg, Massachusetts where it is cold and a few snow showers, but not bad yet!  So far low temperatures hover around the freezing mark.  On December 6th we head to northern Maine so imagine we will really see cold weather.  Soooo glad we brought our winter boots, and warm clothes.  Some days already I (Cherrie) am wearing three layers not counting my winter coat!!!!!!!  Charlie says I always pack the kitchen sink, but this time it is our winter woolies and vitamins to keep well!  When people see our Florida license plate they must think we are crazy!