Moving down the "to-do" list

So, the past little while has been scattered, but productive! The biggest and best news is that we've got the tickets!!!! We're so excited to have that huge factor of the trip nailed down! There were a few hitches in our itinerary at first, because we were expecting to have to go down bellow for training with Global Outreach, but when their training schedules looked like they were going to be a problem for us, everyone was wonderful in working out a solution. So, we don't have to spend time in the continental US after all; we get to ship straight out for Africa and have custom-training on-sight. We'll be leaving Oct. 8 (but we don't reach Uganda until the 10th), so we should have enough time to wrap things up around here, even though the days are seeming to fly by pretty fast now. Our return date is June 6, after spending a night in London. Getting the tickets helps you to realize how long eight months have the potential of being, but as long as we look at the future with God's strength, and not trusting our own, its an exciting and wonderful time.

As well as getting our tickets, we're both practically done with our official applications to Global Outreach as well. We're all up on our immunizations, we're spending valuable time getting to know the Fulks family that we'll be so closely interacting with, and we're finally getting collected enough to talk to people around us about our plans/itinerary. It's been a hectic, tiring, but productive time.

Being able to rely on God's strength has already been a huge part of our trip (yes, even before we've left Homer). The more thought and prayer that's given to the subject, the more we realize that there is no way that we're able to succeed in the venture on our own, as a matter of fact, it's doubtful that we would even have the ability to want to go in the face of all of the scary insecurities. But the only way to walk in God's will and plan is to do so in HIS strength, with our eyes turned away from ourselves on onto our Lord and Savior, who knows exactly what we're capable of. . . and then makes us walk outside of that so that we have to fall into His strength and wisdom.

We're continuing to seek God and his will for us daily, as we continue to prepare ourselves for our move. The next big project is to research, put together and circulate support letters, with contact info and details of our trip, goals and needs. Please continue to pray for us as we work to pull everything together and share our lives and God's plan for them with the people around us.