It is in one month’s time that Krista, Alex and I will be boarding a plane with one-way tickets to Europe. We have been looking forward to this since we were 17 years old and God first told us that we would one day go into missions. God is good and has provided for us in ways we just really sit in awe of. We are just amazed.

So what is happening with us over the next month. First we are working on the BC & AC method. That is “Before Crate” and “After Crate”. We are expecting for our shipping container to leave the US just before Christmas. So before then, we have to go through all of our stuff making sure we really want to take it and that it will fit in our new place in Kandern, Germany. We also need to get our last minute shopping done (items that we can’t get there or are more expensive over there so we’ll take a bunch with us) and for me, it means getting all of the computers backed-up and ready to go into the container.

“After Crate” will consist of saying “good-bye”. So for Christmas we will be going to my sister’s in Georgia so that we can spend some special time with family. After Christmas, we’ll come back and enjoy our annual New Year’s Eve celebration with our friends Randy & Cheryl Henning where we always do fondue. My parents at some time will be throwing us a going away party and then on January 9th, we’ll be boarding the plane.

During this whole time, we will be meeting and talking with people as we still have to finish raising the final portions of our support.

Please continue to pray for us during this time:

• Pray that we are able to get all the things done and not forget something
• Pray that we are able to take time as a family and make sure that we do this transition well
• Pray that we are able to finish raising the rest of our support
• Pray that the Euro will stop strengthening as we have a lot of start up money that needs to be converted and the Euro going up, means less buying power for us