I'm dreaming of a green Christmas

I just can't take another white one, it's so much easier to shovel rain. I remember being in FL once around Christmas, and my cousins were talking about going to the beach - that was so strange to a native New England girl. Now, it sounds delightful. Somehow when I grew up and had to shovel snow lost its allure.
All that is to say that we are hoping to be in Guatemala before Christmas. Our new target leave date is on (or the weekend before) December 1st. We would like to start teaching when school starts up again in second semester. Getting there at the beginning of December allows time for Ken to go to language school, and me to furnish the house. I'm hoping it won't take me a whole month to shop for furniture, but you never know. Maybe I will whittle some all on my own, or let the girls do it. (Wait - that could be dangerous.)

Our pastor recently said something about no longer using the term "raising" support, but yet "discovering" support. I really like that term. We know that God wants us in Guatemala and that he has the means to get us there. He is choosing to do that by allowing others to support us. We are praying fervently that all of our support will come in quickly. We know that there are many out there planning on supporting, that just haven't gotten around to mailing in their response card. It is reassuring to know that those people are out there, yet we can't figure their support into our totals until our agency has the paper in hand. They don't need the money until we leave (or leave our jobs rather), just the paper saying it will come. Please join us in praying that those people will send their cards in quickly.

Blessings. I'm off to keep up with my recent addiction, the Olympics.

New Leave Date

Well, we missed our first leave date of August 1st. We are going to be setting a new leave date, probably late Nov, after some prayer. Please pray that we will listen to God's voice in this. Also, please pray that we will start receiving more commitments for monthly support. Our up front costs are doing really well, but we really need those monthly commitments.

We were reminded of God's promises today as we saw two absolutely stunning rainbows. God is good!

Abigail starts school in four weeks. We can barely believe that she is old enough, but she is definitely ready. Joy hardly knows what she is going to do with herself while Abs is in school all day (twice a week.) Surely Emma will more than make up for the missing person!