Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
An Update
I realize it has been over a month since I last updated you all on our progress. I will try to do better and give weekly updates......okay, I'll try.
Both our dog and cat are in their new homes and are doing well. We are slowly emptying out our house and packing up our belongings. We thought we had a buyer for our house but that didn't happen so we are back to square one on that.
Our support has been coming in slowly but surely. We are at about 10% of our monthly support and about 30% for our airfare/training fees.
We were able to speak at two other churches besides our own and were really blessed by those congregations and their interest in Mercy Ships and our part in it. We will be speaking at another church next month along with our own church and we are excited about both of those opportunities.
I am continuing to homeschool the girls during this time so that makes life interesting. We started school during the summer so we will be able to take some time off for traveling and not feel like we are losing any school time. The girls just completed 8 weeks of soccer through a Homeschooling league in our area, that was a lot of fun. And both girls are losing teeth like crazy so the Tooth Fairy has been making lots of visits to our house in the past two months! Deborah who is still 7 lost her 11th tooth last night and Anna who is newly 5 has lost her 4th tooth as of tonight!
Ray continues to be excited about Mercy Ships and wishes we could skip the 'moving' and just be on the ship right now. I think for me the process helps me in the whole transitioning thing and I'm glad to have this 'extra' time. As much as I wanted to already be in our training right now I can look objectively at our situation and see how God planned the whole thing out for us for our best.
I really will try to do better and update more often, maybe even with a picture next time!
Edited to add:Ray is still employed as an Electronics Technician and will continue at his job until we leave to serve with Mercy Ships.
Both our dog and cat are in their new homes and are doing well. We are slowly emptying out our house and packing up our belongings. We thought we had a buyer for our house but that didn't happen so we are back to square one on that.
Our support has been coming in slowly but surely. We are at about 10% of our monthly support and about 30% for our airfare/training fees.
We were able to speak at two other churches besides our own and were really blessed by those congregations and their interest in Mercy Ships and our part in it. We will be speaking at another church next month along with our own church and we are excited about both of those opportunities.
I am continuing to homeschool the girls during this time so that makes life interesting. We started school during the summer so we will be able to take some time off for traveling and not feel like we are losing any school time. The girls just completed 8 weeks of soccer through a Homeschooling league in our area, that was a lot of fun. And both girls are losing teeth like crazy so the Tooth Fairy has been making lots of visits to our house in the past two months! Deborah who is still 7 lost her 11th tooth last night and Anna who is newly 5 has lost her 4th tooth as of tonight!
Ray continues to be excited about Mercy Ships and wishes we could skip the 'moving' and just be on the ship right now. I think for me the process helps me in the whole transitioning thing and I'm glad to have this 'extra' time. As much as I wanted to already be in our training right now I can look objectively at our situation and see how God planned the whole thing out for us for our best.
I really will try to do better and update more often, maybe even with a picture next time!
Edited to add:Ray is still employed as an Electronics Technician and will continue at his job until we leave to serve with Mercy Ships.
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