Lost Paperwork

The dreaded day has come. Some of the paperwork we need has been lost in the shipping world. One of our daughter's paperwork that we need to move was sent to us from Texas. The carrier picked it up in TX, but then has no record of it after that. Just because you have a tracking number does not mean they can track it. So, we wait for the carrier to try and find it in their "lost and found" department. If it is not found we will start the process over, a process that will take about a month too long.

To make things a little worse these documents are her identity and the carrier is concerned that her someone could steal her identity from the papers. Oh the joys of a world where one's identity is considered valuable to a thief.

This is just a minor setback and all things will happen in God's time. Just join us in prayer. I just pray that the carrier will show up today with these precious documents.

Love to all.

The countdown begins

I am so excited. It seems like just a few days ago I was fearful and weary, but God has taken those things from me and replaced them with excitement and peace. God is good like that. We have been so blessed and humbled by the love and support of everyone. God has been doing some amazing things in our family and I just want to share some of it with you.

Each child has had their own moment of frustration and fear of the upcoming move. Each one's has manifested in a way unique to the child. A few weeks ago Mari-Madeline was upset and Walker was comforting her and this was all he said "Mar, we have to trust mom and dad, because dad knows what God wants for our family." This settled her and she was fine after that. I was brought to tears and felt God wrapping me in His arms and saying I have taken care of it all, trust me. I fully trust God and to see my son trusting us and God just takes my breath away.

We got to spend a wonderful few hours with another couple that will be living with us in Honduras. Ryan and Chuck got to spend some guy time talking and Katie and I got to spend girl time talking. God has taken care of the details of personalities and friendship. We love Chuck and Katie and could not be more blessed than to be working with them in the field. Chuck and Katie volunteered to come to Tennessee and get all our things for the shipping crate; again this is God's provision alone.

Something that I will never be able to fully put into words is how humbled I am by all of our partners. We have had so many people join our prayer team and our financial team. God alone is in control of this and I am so grateful that our partners are with us. It is such a blessing to know that someone is praying for your family and ministry daily. We also could not be fulfilling our call to international missions without our financial partners. Thank you to all of you. We are at 31% of our monthly budget and have almost all of our one-time expenses covered.

I know this was long and thank you for reading it. God is good.....

Moving on down to Honduras

Our things have left! All of our precious belongings are on their way to Honduras. The missionaries just left with a trailer full of our plastic crates. They are taking them to load onto the shipping crate headed to Honduras.

It is so exciting to see things moving foward.