It's time to celebrate! We have reached our support goal for serving in Malawi! (we're at about 100.3%) God is good! We are extremely grateful to our entire support team! Because of their generosity and eagerness to participate with us in God's mission in Malawi we are off in just one more week (read: seven days of packing, preparations, and goodbyes).
Prayer requests:
- that our TEP (work visa) would be granted and received in time for our August 18 departure
- that EI Malawi will find suitable housing and language teacher for us
- for peace in our final preparations and good-byes
- for safety as we travel to Ontario for training and then on to Malawi (3 days in airplanes and airports with 3 girls)
SCHEDULE:
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- sat-aug 2: goodbye potluck at the park (JOIN US! noon-3pm at Main Beach, Cultus Lake)
- sun-aug 3: special send-off services at our home church (Sardis Fellowship) and send-off party at the Pronk's (3-5pm)
- wed-aug 6: fly to Toronto for EI orientation and training
- fri-aug 8: weekend with Cambodian missionary friends in Niagara Falls
- sun-aug 17: African church service in Toronto
- mon-aug 18: travel Toronto-London
- tue-aug 19: travel London-Johannesburg
- wed-aug 20: travel Johannesburg-Blantyre, Malawi
If you would still like to be part of our mission in Malawi by contributing financially, we can foresee two areas of need:
- help our family cope with rising costs || last week we received an email from EI: "Inflation is very bad, food has either gone up in price or disappeared. Fuel was already at the price we pay now in Canada back in April, and has gone up more than ours!"
- contribute to our vision budget || we believe God has great plans for Malawi and there will be many opportunities for us to serve Jesus, invest in his Kingdom, and extend God's justice to the hungry, the orphans, and the oppressed. We can't say what that will look like yet, but we invite you to be part of it.
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