So A LOT has happened in the past 90 days. First of all, we are fully funded. Yay! Due primarily to a heavy, yet exciting, decision to move from YFC as our sending organization to Red Rocks Church (our church). Red Rocks has blessed us by deciding to handle our donations and not ask a service fee of us. Funding has also continued to come in and we find ourselves SO incredibly blessed by all of you!
Friends, those wonderful individuals, are stepping forward to handle other dynamics like sending out letters and helping us stay in touch or finding us a safe place to stay once we are in Africa. Thank you!
God is moving, changing the world (not renting a U-haul for those of you that think that way) and our lives. All of a sudden we have a path under us. Once we are in Guinea Bissau, we will be working with the local church and we will do what the church tells us they need, while Erica and I listen, learn and follow. I am very excited about this because we can rule out bringing fish to quench their thirst or water to satiate hunger. We'll be sure that what we do is applicable and needed to the people we live among.
We are currently waiting to hear back from a church called Mafi in Guinea Bissau to see if they will be our receiving church. We expect this reply on African time, so it could be a little while or it could happen quickly. Once we receive this confirmation, we can start the process with YFC to get all of the launch fund money that has been donated so far switched from YFC to Red Rocks Chuch.
Once that is done, we'll have a couple of minor logistics (like we are still going to MTI) and we leave! So as it stands right now, we believe we will leave some time between March and late June. It is up to that path that is only known by one, -God alone understands the way to it and He alone knows where it dwells.
Thanks for your love, prayers and friendship!
