A Recap of Sorts...

For those of you who read our newsletter, this is old news.  If you don't read our newsletters, then read on!

We have a specific departure date - July 14!  This is six months later than we had been anticipating but God is good and has showed us He has gone before us in this entire process and that His timing is perfect, not ours.  To illustrate this, within the span of a few short hours of determining that we would be here another six months, we were provided jobs and a house to live in until July!

Even though we had been mentally geared to go in January we are thankful for the additional time here.  Over the next few months Rachel will be teaching again at Northside Adult Basic Education in Minneapolis and I will be flight instructing and studying for my upcoming pilot exams in Kenya.

We are very excited to be this close to departing for Africa but we also know that there will be many challenges ahead and that the work will not be easy.  Therefore we are grateful for this extra time to make sure we are leaving with a solid base of prayer warriors and supporters.  We appreciate you and are grateful for your participation in this exciting work!