So when are you going?

I get that question a lot. I get it from family members, from churches we are speaking at, from random strangers I to whom I explain why I am "minimally employed".
The honest answer is we still don't know. We do know we are getting closer though and we are going through a checklist what we need to do before we go.

We need more supporters--we are almost at a level to go for the first 3yrs and are about 3/5 for a full time support. We still need more communication support (See last post), we love the moral support we are getting, and we are needing some types of logistic support as well.
We need immunizations.
We need plane tickets
We need visas
We need to do wills, powers of attorney and other stuff like that
We need to finalize plans for our vehicle
We need to stay the course
WE NEED PRAYER

Given those "needs" here are our plans for the next two months
MONTANA PLANS
Yes we are going to MT this September. We are trying hard to get there. We had originally planned to leave for MT on the 24th of Aug but we did some dental check ups this week and we need to take care of those things before we go to MT. Nonetheless we still are going to keep our speaking engagements (unless something else occurs) for Septemeber
Travel Plans
Leave for MT sometime the last week of August.

Speaking Engagements
9.13-Billings MT
9.20 Columbia Falls MT
9.27 Hamilton (waiting confirmation) MT
10.4 Richey MT

Misc Plans
Reconnect with friends and supporters in our home church of Cut Bank Community Bible Church
Sometime in there I might work some shifts at the IHS site I worked at in Browning as well.
Obtain needed vaccines for Republic of Congo
Apply for Visa for the Republic of Congo

Return East in OCT have more dental work done, do one last round of visiting family and if we have our visas, our plane tickets and all else is a go then we will leave the end of OCT.

Please pray for our children as we continue to bounce around from house to house, help us to stabilize their routine,
Pray for Anna and the kids as they start homeschooling this Sept.
Pray for us as we speak at churches
Praise God for the health our family so far and traveling safety.
Praise God I was able to do some work to gain finances to mitigate unexpected dental costs.

thanks so much for your prayers, your communications and other support.

Plans Changing

You may be wondering what are the next steps for us now that we are not making it to the language school in Quebec this January so this is the 411.

The immediate plans are to spend the holidays with our families scattered from Ringgold GA to Lewisport KY to Dice KY. These form an almost equidistant triangle in the Southeast. There may be some opportunities for us to speak there as well but we are not sure yet.

We will then return here and I will continue to work at the Blackfeet Community Hospital. We will then resume a lot of the activities we were involved in before we tried to relocate and will add hopefully a French tutor to help us out.

We will also finalize (hopefully soon) the adoption of Kathleen and shore up her documents (passports, legal guardianship etc). What we need to do for that is to finish a home-study by a social worker and pass a background check......

We do appreciate everyone's prayers over the past several days and especially the past 72 hrs. I must confess that it was quite the emotional and physical drain on Anna and I.

To put it all in perspective we again are relying on God's perfect will. Whether or not this delay was an attack by Satan on our plans, a gentle "lets wait a bit" from God, just the result of our decisions and actions, or some combination of the above matters little at this point and our response is to model Joseph and David. Joseph's statement to his bro's in Genesis 50:20 where he states "You meant it for evil but God meant it for good" reminds us that God is sovereign and can handle both Satan's attacks and our incompetence. And David's response to God allowing his child to die in 2 Sam 12:20. We learn David got up and worshiped God....He also ate and bathed but we were doing that already...

So like Paul we will forget those things behind and reach forward to the things which are ahead and press toward the goal of the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus (phil 3:13,14).

Thanks again for your prayers