The Ort Family

Regular Updates

The Ort Family — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:07:16 +0000

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Special people flashback

The Ort Family — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:18:05 +0000

Updating our blog has not been our priority recently, as you can see.

Since our last post, we have had special times with special people – both at our home and in other states. Here are some of them:

August - AR - Georg and Martha spent a weekend in Hot Springs, and saw a friend while there.

August - AR - Georg was sung to for his birthday in Hot Springs.

October - Ana Marie and Paul Stefan attended the 90th birthday celebration for Alice Rice - wife of the late Rev. Robert Rice, founder of Literacy & Evangelism International.

October - WI - Georg and Martha attended the wedding celebration of Matt Stewart and Naomi Kamps.

October - TX - Georg and Martha attended Martha's High School reunion.

November - MO - We attended the wedding of Steven Loomis and Rebecca Serven.

November - We celebrated Thanksgiving with Martha's mother and brother's family at our home.

November - With Travis, our cousin who lives the closest to us.

November - Family members displaying a picture that Peter took and had in his gallery at a coffee shop for the month of October.

December - Peter Serven visited us on his way to MO from TX.

January - VA - Paul Stefan and Ana Marie enjoyed a few days at the home of the Roe family.

January - VA - Paul Stefan and Ana Marie at the wedding rehearsal dinner for Becca Green and Elliott Garber.

January - VA - With Elizabeth Kellogg, an excellent cellist who played with us for Becca and Elliott's wedding.

January - VA - Paul Stefan and Ana Marie with the Green Family and newlyweds Becca and Elliott after the wedding.

February - VA -Staying over after the wedding to spend time with friends (members of the bride's family) and new friends.

February - VA - The Wilkes family showed kind hospitality in having us over to their home for a visit.

February - VA - We spent a week in VA for the wedding and sightseeing, and met this sweet British lady who had come all the way from England for Becca's wedding.

International Literacy Training Institute 2009 – Tulsa

Ana Marie — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:43:05 +0000

For 5 weeks, we were blessed to have a group of students from around the world attending ILTI at the LEI headquarters.

Congratulations to the ILTI 2009 graduates!

fellowship with students

Georg sharing a testimony during chapel time

Ana Marie teaching an introductory session for the Primer Construction module

playing music at the graduation luncheon

students singing in various languages at the graduation

Paul Stefan playing prelude music at the graduation

Ana Marie playing postlude music at the graduation

Public Testimonies

Ana Marie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:05:40 +0000

A month ago, the Grace Bible Church congregation gathered in front of the church building after the Sunday morning service to hear testimonies and witness baptisms of 9 brothers and sisters in Christ.

We should never be ashamed to own him as a brother whom God will own as a son.
Thomas Manton

Sinners are saved individually, but they are not saved in, or for, isolation, but in a way that binds them together as members one of another and makes them useful to each other.
H. Cartwright, Paper of the 1999 Youth Conference of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland – ‘What the Bible Says About Church Government’, F.P. Mag. Vol.112, No.8, August 2007

The following gave public testimony of the Lord saving them and then were baptized in obedience to Him. The Lord’s work is marvelous!

Tutor Training Workshop – May 2009

Ana Marie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:30:05 +0000

eyes are opened to the words

read about Jesus

this is how to read

we practice teaching how to read

learners...teachers

now go change someone's life!

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String Workshop – June 2009

Ana Marie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:25:56 +0000

: String Workshop students and instructors (front row)

: watch yourself

: concentration

: masterclass with Larry Shapiro

: demonstration of consistent bow hold

some friends kindly hosted 5 of the students on Sunday

Paul Stefan and Ana Marie went on their first road-trip to and from Indianapolis – an over 10-hr. drive. There were some adventures along the way!

: driving home…running out of gas

: recovering

: driving through a storm

: something’s going on

: Fulton…we found out later that there had been a tornado there…around the time when we were driving through!

: beautiful

: our destination for the night…a welcoming home and hosts

: Lake of the Ozarks

: good reminder

Memorial Day with Friends

Ana Marie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:47:18 +0000

the chef grills the meat

necessities

fresh stuff

meat to eat

fellowship is done well around a table

nothing like a cake decorating book for entertainment

talented brother...adoring sister

settling Catan

Spring 2009 – part 3

Ana Marie — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:12:53 +0000

The German American Society of Tulsa (GAST) hosted their annual German Fest.

Georg and Martha volunteered for a few hours in the kitchen.

Schnitzel (a piece of breaded meat), Kartoffelsalat (potato salad), Salat (salad), and Apfelstrudel (apple strudel)

Ana Marie turned 22 on April 26th.

Paul Stefan added to his library again .

We celebrated Mother's Day by going out to Souper Salad for lunch after church. A friend from church joined us.

Peter has talent in many areas, including ice cream sculpturing .

Our beautiful mother on Mother's Day afternoon.

Paul Stefan turned 20 on May 12th, but since he was going to be out of town then, we celebrated his birthday on Mother's Day. You guessed correctly - there are books in those packages!

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Spring 2009 – part 2 – string workshop

Ana Marie — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:26:00 +0000

Paul Stefan and Ana Marie attended a Creative Tension string workshop in Indianapolis from April 13 – 22. They worked on violin technique with Mrs. Gardner, who teaches students to play without wrong tension, thus producing an excellent sound.

all the students and teachers of the Creative Tension string workshop

listening intently to technique and practice explanations

Mrs. Gardner teaching

working on bowing wrist movement

Ana Marie with Christa - student of Mrs. Gardner and excellent practice assistant

Ana Marie with her roommates

Spring 2009 – part 1

Ana Marie — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:36:01 +0000

No, this blog hasn’t died. The owners have just been busy! Here is the first of some picture post updates on our life in the past couple of months.

On March 21st, Paul Stefan and Ana Marie went to the Duggar Family book-signing event at Barnes and Noble here in Tulsa.

meeting Jinger Duggar (15 years old)

Check out the websites of the Duggars and their oldest son and his wife!

On March 27th, Tulsa received a blanket of snow.

the view from our front porch

Surprisingly, it snowed about 8 hours straight!

pretty design on a neighbor's shed

the view from a window

Recently, Peter replaced his red motorcycle with a yellow one.

On April 10, we attended a Messianic Passover Seder.

Our table at the Passover Seder.

The whole group at the Passover Seder remembering the payment Christ made for our sins.

We sang a song called Dayenu, and truly if you think about how undeserved any of God’s gifts are, it can and should kindle abundant gratefulness.