Back tracking so everyone can catch up on our lives 

Friends & Family ~

The Lord is GOOD!! This past Sunday evening Art had the opportunity to share what is going on in our lives up to this point at our home church. As most of you know we go to a small country church (which we love)! This small church has given us so much support. At this past business meeting they agreed as a church to support us financially. This past Sunday we realized how much prayer support we are getting. After Art spoke Pastor Dan invited the church to come up to the front lay hands on us and pray as I glanced up I noticed almost the whole congregation coming towards us!! The support is overwhelming at times. They prayed us as individuals and as a whole. The blessings that this small church have given us are AWESOME!!! LaGrange also took a love offering up for us during both the morning and evening service. The amount that they were able to gift us with, will be a huge help in paying for our costs for the trip to and from Colorado this week. This last Saturday evening we celebrated Michael’s birthday a bit early so that family would be able to spend some time with him. The Case’s were great and let us have it at their house as we don’t have enough furniture any longer for people to sit on. We had a wonderful time and Michael got tons of cools stuff including a new digital camera to take to Congo with him.

As most all of you know we are heading to Mission Training International on Friday night. We will be gone for 3 weeks and are really excited to not only take part in this training but to take a trip half way across the country. Art’s last official day at work is tomorrow . While he can go back part time when we return he hopes to not have to. This time in our lives is very exciting yet scary all at the same time. When we first started this process we were told by Global that Art should quit his job when we have about 75% of our support in place, Joe said about 50%, at this point we are at about 15% and yet we have still taken that step of faith that our support will be in place before the end of the year. We also still have not sold the house as of yet. So not only do we not have our support in place but we still have many financial responsibilities to take care of. We do have a trip scheduled when we return from Colorado. We will be heading to Virginia to speak to people from the pastor of Art’s church he grew up in. The Zoller’s have graciously set up both a home group presentation time for us as well as speaking briefly at their church on that Sunday morning. We hope to be able to make a stop in South Carolina (this is a long shot right now) and North Carolina while we are down south. While we are at training we will be able to receive emails so drop us a line.

During this time of stepping out in faith we need prayer support as the attacks are coming more frequently and ferociously now as we strive towards the final leg of getting to Congo. This last week while letting the dog back in the house at 4am he chased a bird (yes I said at 4am) onto the porch and it hit the outside pane of glass on the sliding glass door and shattered it. I was just reaching to open the door from the inside. Needless to say my heart stopped for a second. We have cleaned up the mess but will need to take care of this before the house is sold. We are attempting to just replace the piece of glass but may need to replace the whole door.

Our prayer requests:

1. For traveling mercies as we drive to Colorado this weekend and then back in 3 weeks

2. For a time of spiritual building and refreshment while at training

3. For the sale of the house

4. For financial support many people who have verbally agreed to support us still have not sent in anything so we are not sure where we really stand at this point

5. For continued protection from attacks (though as long as we are being attacked then we know we are on the right path) So not Protection From but Protection Through attacks

I pray for each of you and hope to hear from you all soon.