June 23rd Update

Just a quick update on a few things that have been happening in our lives since the last post:

• God has continued to bless our support raising and we are now at 85% of our required goal! Just a little under $500 in monthly commitments for us to be released to Ireland. The Lord keeps placing people in our path who have an interest in our ministry and want to partner with us in their finances and prayers.

• With a lot of help from our church we had a successful garage sale, clearing out a lot of our stuff and making some money in the process to help with moving expenses. Special thanks to John & Angela Caprine, Stacy Bins, Stephanie Osowski, Kerri Wittwer, Jason Green, Shannon Howard and everyone who donated items to the sale!

• I attended my grandfather's memorial service this past weekend. It was a great time of remembrance as we shared memories and stories of him with friends and family. I was blessed and honored to share the eulogy/message at the service for him.

• This Sunday, the 28th, we will have our commissioning service at Summit Ridge Church in Las Vegas. Dave McBride from Operation Mobilization in Tyrone, GA will attend and help give the message along with Pastor John. This is a service that is totally being done in faith that God will provide the remainder of our support in time for us to leave by the end of July. If you are in Vegas, we would love to see you there!

The next couple of weeks we will be working on packing up the house and getting everything ready to load on a U-Haul to Enterprise, OR. We will store some of our stuff there at Sarah's mom's house. Before we leave, we will take a short trip to San Diego to say goodbye to most of Sarah's extended family. We'll spend a week or so in Enterprise and then a week or so in Marcola, OR before (God willing) flying out of Portland to Dublin during the last week of July.

Please prayerfully consider what part God would have you play in all of this as we look to wrap up the final bit of support raising. Stay tuned!