| Olá from Coimbra, Portugal! We’ve been in country for just over a week now and are looking forward to starting language courses soon. Upon arrival, we met an MAF family on our team who came 6 months ahead of us to begin their language school. This family has been such a great help to us in getting settled here and finding our way around the city. We have bus passes now which will be our primary form of transportation (along with walking) during language school. We have a few more logistical items to cross off our to-do list this week so that we can begin our courses the following week! We continue to study our Portuguese in the meantime using Duolingo and Portuguese-English dictionaries/post-it notes. We appreciate all that you have done to get us to this point. The financial and prayer support we have received from our support team has been an immense blessing to our family as we follow God’s leading for our lives. We pray that this next year in language school will be an enriching time for us and we will be readily prepared to minister in Mozambique in 2021. As this is a partnership, how can we be praying for you during this time? |
NEW CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE KOHER FAMILY
Ryan – Email: rkoher@maf.org WhatsApp: +351 911 067 119
Annabel – Email: akoher@maf.org WhatsApp: +351 911 841 108
We don’t currently have a phone number to be reached at aside from WhatsApp. We can make outbound calls to the US though so if you desire to chat on the phone, we can arrange a time to call you. Portugal is 8 hours ahead of PST.
Letters: Ryan & Annabel Koher
Rua Gomes Freire N˚ 65, RC
3000-204 Coimbra
Portugal
Packages: Mission Aviation Fellowship
C/O Ryan & Annabel Koher
PO Box 47
Nampa, ID 83653
We can receive letters here in Portugal, but we are asking for packages to be mailed to MAF in the US. This is due to the customs fees that we will obtain here in Portugal if we were to receive a package. Someone from MAF can accompany the packages to Mozambique when they have an individual heading out there and we can receive them when we enter the country.
We will also be having various friends and families visiting us during our time in Portugal so it may be possible for one of them to bring a package along with them, but we would need to arrange this ahead of time so please let us know if this is something you desire to do.
Prayer Needs
- Pray that the Lord will give us an easy understanding of the Portuguese language
- Pray that our schedules will align in a way that will allow us to care for Elias without childcare for this semester. We have been unable to find childcare at this time so we are attempting to get into two different class schedules
- Pray for good health. We have each had a scratchy throat, slight cough, or itchy nose since arrival. It makes it hard to sleep with a little one who doesn’t feel 100%.
- We’re still raising funds for a vehicle in Mozambique. We are $19,726 away from our goal. We are also still raising monthly support. We’re in need of a minimum of $421/month.
- Pray for Coimbra. There isn’t a strong Protestant Church presence here and the handful of churches that are here are quite theologically weak. There is a prayer for revival in the city when truly there needs to be a formation and growth of the Christian faith here to begin with
PRAISE GOD!
- We have been connected with a group of Gospel workers here in Coimbra. They meet every fortnight and we were able to participate this past week. It was such a blessing to be with other like minded individuals.
- Our apartment is spacious with LOTS of windows
Give towards our vehicle fund or commit to monthly gifts HERE
Our mailing address is:
Koher Family MAF
PO Box 47
Nampa, ID 83653-0047