Two Weeks To Go

It is hard to believe that we are actually nearing the end before we leave our cozy home, our dear pets and head off to an experience that as yet is unknown.  We've told our various places of work, our friends and neighbors and that has created a lot of curiosity and a lot of questions being asked of us.  What an opportunity to share and ask for prayer and create an interest in the work we will be doing.  What will we see?  What trials will we go through? What blessings will we add to our collection of blessings already experienced?  Are we really going for 3 months?  Are we really going for only 3 months?  Will anyone miss us when we go?  Will anyone miss us when we come home?  What will our children learn about the world?  About other people groups?  About trials?  About trusting?  About themselves? About their God?  So many unknowns, but what an exciting adventure to be going on for God, as a family, together, serving Him who is our strength and provider.

Will we be able to keep up with this Blog, be together, stay healthy, and all the many other things that will pull upon our time?  We are trusting that God will give us wisdom as we set boundaries that are fully in His will, way and time.  Thank you so much for being interested enough to read and learn about what we are experiencing and how God is leading.  Most appreciated are your prayers for this experience and how it will bless others and change us.

These next few days will be a blur of activity as we finalize all the little things that need to be done.  We are still waiting to see how God will fill our need for someone to house sit and all that that entails.  We have several possibilities, and if none of them work, Donna's father has committed to coming and staying the winter in our home for us as his part in making this experience happen.  What a blessing.  Thank you so much even if we don't end up needing you to come, Daddy. Just knowing you will, lets us move forward without concern.

All three of the children's passports came in the mail today! Now to send them off for the visa's we need.  If we are unable to get the visa's before we go it would only mean that we had to make one  extra trip to a border to renew our 30 day visa we would get at the airport.  We are hoping to not have to make a border run if we don't have to, to save time, but we are sure it would add to our experiences we will be having if we do.

We are told that we need to "Press together, press together", this allows us to hold each other up, as the saying goes, "together we stand, divided we fall".  Let us press together in these last days, as the final work is being finished, whether in foreign lands or here at home, right where we are.  Let us stand together in truth, in God's plan for each of our lives, as we listen to Him, Answering His Call!