Paul
I love the jungle, I love to hike, I love having family times and having holidays by the beach. Being with people who want to grow and learn new things excites me and gives me great joy. My motto in life has always been “Live life to the full!” If life doesn’t have challenges and risks then I curl up in boredom – so I do not choose the way of boredom and look for challenges and risks that keep me on life’s edge! My favourite verse is Phil 2:12-13 – Work out your salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who works in you to will and to do according to His good pleasure. I’m on a quest to discover what His good pleasure is and I would have it no other way. I love life and I love Jesus being the Centre of my life.
Penny
There are so many things about life that I love. I love family and friends. I love taking risks and relish a challenge. I love hot climates! I don’t like being cold! I love beaches and sunsets! I love kids! I love reading, walking, swimming, sewing, gardening. I love managing things, and caring for people. I love fishing and being in a boat or canoe! Most of all I love Jesus. My life motto is to live without regrets!
Luke & Pennie
Time has flown by for us since our year in Thailand working with Mum and Dad. Our big recent news is the arrival of our baby girl, Sufjan (soof-yan). She is growing bigger so quick and we are loving every minute of being parents and looking forward to getting a little more sleep when… um… when does that happen? She has been voted best looking baby in the world by an international independent panel of experts, which we’re very proud of.
Luke is supposedly studying visual arts full-time but instead spends most of his time staring at and playing with Sufjan, who he is a huge sucker for. He swings between frustration and elation with his work at school, but is grateful for the experience, and austudy. His favourite subject is drawing and he is probably addicted to coffee. At least it’s not heroin. He also enjoys reading fiction.
Pennie’s life is pretty full with being a mum but she enjoys sneaking in moments to be creative with her friends and is involved in a TEAR womens action group, raising awareness, and money, for the empowerment and rights of women (particularly mothers) in developing countries and those disadvantaged within Australia.
Sufjan enjoys trees, cuddles, sucking her own tongue, burping, having her own space, pulling faces, birds, being outside, and shadows, especially ones that move. She loves listening to music and kicking around on the floor. She has her father wrapped firmly around her little finger, though her favourite thing in the world is still milk.
Together we’ve recently moved to a beautiful country town by the beach, Goolwa, about an hour and a quarter from Adelaide. We all love the fresh sea air and the sound of waves as we go to sleep each night, and everyone in Goolwa is super friendly. We have pretty successfully boycotted major international corporations in favour of the ‘little guy’ for about 2 years now and are hoping our small contribution to affecting change in our world is making a difference. Support local business, every dollar votes.
Mum and dad seem to have mottos, so to follow suit, ours is ‘Love one another, it’s as simple and difficult as that’.
Jaci
I’m currently studying nursing and love it – I want to be a pediatric nurse – I love working with kids, they are so incredibly resilient. I think being a pediatric nurse would be one of the most heart- rending as well as most rewarding professions that I could choose, and I’m very much looking forward to it.. One of my favourite ways to pass the time is with a big cup of tea, a good friend and some good conversation…..put me in a cafe pretty much anywhere in the world with a good book and I’d be happy. I am blessed with amazing friends and family and I’m just enjoying everyday life.
Zac & Michelle
A year after we arrived in Australia, Michelle and I are much more settled, thankfully. It was a tough first year, both of us had trouble getting used to being so far from where our hearts are, which is back in America, at Hume Lake. Michelle is working as bakery manager at a supermarket here in Adelaide, where she works incredibly long hours. I’m attending University right now. Although I’m still keen to get into the Paramedic course, I unfortunately, didn’t get in this year but did get into ‘Community and Disability Rehabilitation’, which is under the same Health Science umbrella, so I’m hoping to get good grades and transfer over to the paramedic course next year. We’ve booked a holiday for next year, 2011 to go and visit Thailand, to see my parents and show my lovely wife where I grew up. We have moved from Croydon Park to Highgate in January 2010. This might have no meaning for many of you but it was an amazing move for us. Croydon Park isn’t a very good suburb and the house we were renting wasn’t nice at all. So we’ve moved to a much better house in a much better suburb and we are loving it – especially Michelle, who now only has to drive five minutes to work instead of forty-five. Thank you all so much for all the prayers you have all offered for us in our difficult first year in Australia, we appreciate them so much.
Caleb
I am Caleb, the youngest of the Wilcox bunch! I was born in 1990 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. When I was a baby my parents joined a mission called YWAM & I have pretty much grown up moving about with my parents, going to this country and that. It was interesting seeing some of the world. I was home-schooled until my third year of school when we moved interstate to South Australia and there I went to a public school in Adelaide called “The Heights”, just for one year, then back to home-schooling again. I was 8 years of age when our family re-located to Chiang Rai, Thailand. I learnt heaps more about the world living there than I would have had I stayed living in Australia. So I am glad about that. I finished year 12 in Chiang Rai in June 2008 and in August that same year, I moved to Adelaide. After living in Asia for 10 years, I noticed a pretty big difference in cultures but I am adjusting and it’s all good. In 2009 I studied (Pastry Chef/Baking) in Adelaide and enjoyed it but decided after I finished I didn’t want to do that forever so now, (since beginning 2010) I am doing a Bachelor of Arts at Adelaide Uni, majoring in Philosophy.
