It's A Date!

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We have a tentative departure date! We are still raising ministry support, but we have already raised 96% of what is needed, and if all goes well, we will leave the U.S. on October 10th and arrive in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on October 11th. Please pray for our support to reach 100% quickly. We are very excited, and yes, a little nervous. Visa applications have been submitted. There is one more vaccine to go, the last of a three-round rabies vaccine, which I am not looking forward to because the side effects seem to increase with each round. I am busy trying to tie up loose ends and sort through our stuff. Our team in Kinshasa is looking for a place for us to live. Mail works a lot better here than there, so one of the things I am trying to do before we leave is write letters and thank you notes. I remember when I was a child, if someone gave me a gift my mother would strongly encourage me to write a thank you note. Being a child, I didn't want to stop playing and write a note. That felt too much like homework. Now, though, having a list of people I need to write thank you notes to is an opportunity for me to count my blessings, one at a time. Each note is a reminder that God loves me and has blessed me, and an opportunity to let God use me to bless someone else. So, I'm going to stop blogging and go write some thank you notes.