Monthly Archives March 2012

They are going to need visas.  And if you give a missionary visas, they are going to need luggage.  And if you give a missionary luggage, they are going to need to fill it with stuff…..

I can’t believe in a week from now we will be getting ready for Sunday morning….in Bogota.

So much has happened in these last few weeks since we got the okay to buy plane tickets that I can’t believe we are still standing.

Last week we went to Atlanta to get our Colombian and Peruvian visas/passports/citizenship and our pre-departure visit with MTW.  Here’s how those two days went: woke up early to drive to Atlanta.  Got to the Peruvian consolate where they started to process the kid’s citizenship.  Ran over to the Colombian consolate to hand in our paperwork for our visas there...

We have one-way plane tickets to Bogota, Colombia!

We leave April 6th.

That’s in 18 days.  18.

If you were to come over right now, you would have no idea that we are about to move over seas in 18 days.

If you were to see our packet of papers, you would have no idea how they will be ready in 18 days.

If you were to see our faces, you can see that we have all the emotions of people about to move overseas in 18 days.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our “Push for Peru.”  Your prayers and support made this happen.  We still need a little more, but at least we have a set goal… and tickets!

Tomorrow we leave for a visa excursion to two consulates - Peru and Colombia wherein we hope that Jeremiah and Gabriella will become Peruvian citizens without problems.  Please pray for that.

That’s been our new slogan these last few weeks.

As you can imagine, we are so ready to leave – emotionally and physically.  We’ve been on this journey towards Peru for over 7 years now; Nathaniel for even longer, and we are so anxious to go.  Seminary is done, support raising is almost done, and much of our paperwork done, and we are STILL in the States!

People are always asking us when we are going to go – and we want to say, “tomorrow!” but until we have that last bit of money in, we can’t buy plane tickets, we can’t arrange for our things to be moved and stored, we can’t give our 30 day notice on the condo, we can’t sell our car, and we can’t tell everyone when we plan to leave.

So we are in the middle of a very intense campaign to ask for support – and I am going to boldly ask right...