Je ne parle pas bien francais!!!!!!!

Monday, September 29, 2008

Aaaaack! Maybe I should be saying, "Au Secours!!!!!!!", which if I remember correctly from my childhood days watching Canadian Sesame Street means "Help!!!!!!".

Please pray for us as we are trying to study and brush up on our high school French to get ready for our trip. We really want to be able to communicate on our own at least a little while we are over there. Please pray that our minds would retain what we are learning and that our tongues would be able to get the different pronunciations. French is such a beautiful language but it is a challenge for us as we are trying to learn it better. I guess I should write a disclaimer too that this is Kirsten typing. Maybe Jeff is feeling more confident in his French speaking skills....I hope so! I was just studying it now and feeling a bit frustrated so I thought I would take a quick break to ask you all to pray for this aspect of our preparations.

Also, all of our paperwork for our visas is now out of our hands and at the World Missions office for them to prepare to send them all in for the team. Please continue to pray that the process goes smoothly. It feels good to have our part of this step completed.

By the way, the title tells you that I do not speak French well (I think)! That is what I meant it to say anyway. :o)

Thank You!

Monday, September 22, 2008

We are so blessed. We just want to thank everyone who was involved in any way in the potluck and concert last night. It was such a special night and we were thrilled to have a great turnout. We owe a big thanks especially to Triumph's Mission Society and to Homespun! It is just so neat to see how God provides!

We also have a prayer request. We will be applying for visas for Chad and Cameroon in the next little while. We should get them with no problem but would appreciate your prayers that this process would go smoothly!

Again.......THANK YOU!

You Are Invited!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Triumph's Mission Society is having a potluck/concert fundraiser for us this Sunday night. The potluck starts at 6 p.m and the concert at 7 p.m. Homespun Gospel is putting on the concert. Jeff's dad plays bass in the group and this will be their final concert, their farewell. We so appreciate the help that the Mission Society and Triumph have given us in organizing this as we are raising support for our trip and for Homespun for putting on the concert.

We are going back to Africa!

Saturday, September 13, 2008

As we are preparing to go to Africa, I was looking through some of our old pictures from our last trip in '96. Did these ever bring back some memories! I can hardy believe that we are going back again!

We are getting so excited as we approach our departure date. We will be leaving on Nov. 5th at about 5a.m. We have been busy getting shots, preparing paperwork, thinking about packing, trying to brush up on our French (oui, oui!) and most importantly praying about the trip and what God has in store for us there and for our children as they will stay here at home with my mom (what an answer to prayer she is!). We are still trying to raise support. If you would like to help out with that, you can click the link to our Cameroon '08 site and follow the link there. We are trusting that God will provide for our financial needs as well as all of our others. Our Mission Society has planned a fundraiser potluck and concert for Sunday, Sept 21. Homespun Gospel will be performing and I understand this will be their "Farewell" concert. Jeff's dad plays bass for them. We are so blessed to have this event coming up and we are very much looking forward to it. I will post more on that later.

Right now we don't have many detail about our itinerary. We will fly from here to Seattle and meet up with the rest of the team. From there we will fly to Paris and then on to Africa! We plan to fly into N'Djamena, Chad where we will get a chance to visit the Welcome Center and visit the missionaries there. The we will take a bus down to Garoua where we will begin work with the church there. As we get more details we will post them. We would appreciate your prayers as we continue to prepare.