First major prayer request! We are needing to transport important medicine for some kiddos that AIM AIR will deliver. It needs to be kept cold and in our carry-on baggage. We have a doctor's note. Many of us have the room in our carry ons for it, but we are nervous about TSA and how to keep it cold for the long travel hours.


Will keep you posted on progress!

Pearl River

We arrived safe and sound in New York last night. Uneventful flight - which is rare for us. Our driver didn't kill us with his very aggressive driving (also a plus) and we were met by smiling faces and new friends! We had a...unique meal of burritos with baked beans instead of pinto, black, or refried. I ate about half of it before it was too much.

The rest of our team arrives today. One of the Moody students is from Fresno, CA! We have agreed to discuss Central Valley connections later. The excitement is growing inside me. It helps that all day today my job is to rest. I finally feel recovered from our crazy moving week last week.

I love that AIM gave us our schedule for orientation already and planned breaks every day for us. They also said that we are to take a day of rest weekly while on the field. I have never heard that in my other mission trips, but I feel it's important. I'm encouraged by the thought that my entire well being is being thought of.

We know that we will by staying in Mayfield House. It's a large guest house in Nairobi. It has many rooms, and our entire team is staying there too. Last night we explored our surroundings and found some photo albums of AIM over the last 100 years! There were pictures of Africa from mid 1920! I felt awe struck by the culture and commitment of these missionaries and the organization itself. There are so many families that have multi-generational family members serving and living in Africa. I got a little fearful when I read about the few airplane accidents that killed some missionary pilots. I find it hard to trust Nick's safety up there sometimes. I remind myself that God is in control of both of our lives. Nick truly doesn't belong to me, he belongs to the Lord. It is not my decision as to when he gets called home.

Thus far our current prayer requests are: safety (physical, emotional, spiritual)
We praise God for our awesome trip thus far and the excitement that we both feel.

Money Support

I'm not sure who follows this or reads it....but I just updated our financial support. We got over $4,000 in the mail last week while we were visiting friends in Tennessee!!! God never ceases to amaze us! We only need $1,000  and that's if we reach the most expensive situation possible. If we go over our funding amount, we can start being refunded cost of medicine, our flight to New York, and any other expenses I saved the receipt for!

layout

I felt semi creative. So I changed the heading on the blog. What do you think?

ramblings

Nick and I have felt the purpose for this trip change over the past couple of months. It's been neat to see God speak to us as individuals and then express these thoughts to each other only to discover that we have been thinking the exact same thing! Amazing!

We initially came to LeTourneau and approached this trip as one step closer to being full time missionaries. That isn't the case anymore. We are still excited to meet the missionaries and serve/learn from them but we are now going with prayerful hearts and hopes that God will show us if full term is where he wants us. We are starting to feel more called to staying in the states and discovering and learning what community/giving truly means. Also, Nick struggled greatly with his one maintenance class this semester and he didn't enjoy it. He isn't sure he wants to maintain an aircraft while flying it as well. So we shall see! We eagerly anticipate God's answer in all of this!

Thanks to the five families that have given financially and thanks to the numerous unknown people out there lifting us up in prayer!

official dates

Our unofficial dates are now our "official" dates. :) Total cost: $8,000 (OUCH!). This does NOT include our airfare to New York for training and debriefing. Yet, we aren't nervous about the support coming in. It proves to me just how much God has taught us since I lost my job.  God is good.

unofficial dates

unofficial dates for Kenya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! June 28-30 orientation/training in Pearl River, NY (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE) June 30-July 29 Kenya! We are going with a few students from LETU and a group of couples and guys from Moody!!!!