Praises!

We would like to give thanks and praise to our Heavenly Father! Sunday night our home church took up an offering for us- and God greatly blessed! From that offering alone we will be able to fully pay for both of our plane tickets (round trip) and have some money left over to put toward the cost of the institute ($2500 per person).

We are sure that God will continue to provide for our needs. At this point we need roughly $5000 in order for everything to be fully funded.

Another update...that doesn't really seem like a praise to me at the moment...but it is God's plan. Originally we were going to have several hours in London where we would be able to go out and explore, however, with our latest itinerary we will only have about 1.5 hours. We will not have an opportunity to sight see London, but we are convinced that at some point in our lives God will give us that opportunity-now is apparently not the right time! :o)

Thank you for your continued prayers for us as we prepare to leave. Only about 5 more months until we leave!

Please pray that...
God will continue to provide funds for the trip
We will be able to get everything in order
God will give us strength as we will be leaving our families and living outside of our comfort zones for 6 months!

God is providing!

We would like to thank all of you who have been praying for us as we prepare to head to Uganda in December. It has been a while since we have posted an update, so let's get you all caught up on how God is providing for our trip!

As of Thursday (two days ago) we have a pretty much finalized itinerary. We will be departing on December 28, 2009. We will fly from Washington to London. Originally we were going to have about 12 hours to spend in London between flights which we were very excited about! I (Rachel) have never been to London before so we were excited to have a few hours in which we could do a little sight seeing. God has changed that though and given us 25 hours in London! Our plan now it to arrive in London at 9:00 AM their time. We will get a hotel room and freshen up a bit before heading out to explore the city! After a what we are sure will be a very tiring day, we will be able to get a fairly good night's sleep before getting on the plane for Uganda the next morning around 10:00 AM.

God is also beginning to provide the funds that we need. Tomorrow evening our home church (Twin City Bible Church) will be collecting a love offering for us! We have also had some people who we have met through Mike's job who have given us some money toward the trip. Several opportunities for support through local churches in our area are also "in the works".

We praise God for his provision!
Thank you all for your continued prayers!

Tickets Cost Less than Anticipated

Just a few days ago our travel agent told us that the airfare will be about $2,000 cheaper than expected! What an enormous praise to our Lord for providing in that way.