God is providing in awesome ways!  Thanks to our wonderful and supportive home church (New Vision Baptist Church) increasing their commitment we are now officially at 75% of our goal!  We started our journey as HCJB Global missionary appoointees just over 2 years ago and it’s incredible to be able to say that we’re at 75%. SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT!  Can you tell I’m excited?
We’ve come a long way during that time and God has taught us so much.  We knew that God was good and faithful, but we’ve seen a greater depth to those characteristics.  We’ve learned to be faithful ourselves to the call God put on our lives.  As we struggled at times and even thought about giving up, we were honest about how we felt and we kept going; persevering towards what we knew in our hearts God had for us.  We’ve learned patience to a degree we never knew was needed.  Those who know us better would probably agree that it usually takes some time for us to really open up-to be vulnerable and share what’s on our hearts.  Learning to do that in a different setting and really putting ourselves out there more than we’re always comfortable has been an interesting part of our growth.  We know that being honest and open connects people to us and to our ministry in a way nothing else can and that God is glorified by telling how He’s worked during both joyous and difficult times.
At this point we’re thankful to be joyful and excited (and also a little nervous) as we anticipate finally moving to Asia and doing the work there that God called us to.  We know that the past couple years have been part of His calling and that everything we have experienced was for a purpose and a reason.  And eventually the process of raising our initial support will seem like just a blip in a hopefully long, well-lived life.