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Hey everybody! The support raising process has officially started...whooooboy. It's as difficult as it sounds...but God is in control. We had our first support raising appointment on Sunday and since then we have already had a handful of people who have faithfully committed to supporting us with a monthly pledge! If you haven't received a letter yet, or, you are interested in supporting us, please send me an email. Today, we had the opportunity to visit St. Paul's Lutheran School in Garden Grove. I went here 1st-8th grade, and Justin attended for K and 1st grade. I spoke in their chapel service. It was really cool to be able to go back and share to kids sitting in the same pews that I sat in. God placed it on my heart to encourage them to listen and obey God's calling in their lives and that he is working, even at their young age, to prepare them for something great. Please pray for us in the next couple of days as we connect and share with Orange County friends a...

So we will be sending out our first set of support info letters today...if there are any of you who would like to get yourselves on our mailing list, please send me an email with your mailing address. We have just begun the process in establishing our account with RCE, our sending agency, and have already received our account number (there will be another post soon detailing RCE). I had the opportunity to skype with Dan Wendell, the missions pastor at Sea Coast Grace...Amazing how God makes connections as Doyle Surratt, the main pastor, has a real heart for missions to Europe. We will be communicating in the next couple weeks to talk about how we can partner within the context of our calling to Vienna. Please continue to pray for us as we decide whether to commit for 2 years or a longer term...

Hey everyone, We hope you all had a great weekend. Wow…God is good! We left on Friday morning at 2:30 to head down to LAX for our flight to Iowa. Everything went well, except my name must be on some TSA list because on both legs of our trip (coming and going) I had to check in with a ticket representative who had to verify my ID and birthday…interesting, to say the least. We arrived safely and made it to the hotel in great time. It only took about 20 minutes from the time our plane touched down to the time we walked into our hotel room. Fortunately, we were able to have some down time on Friday afternoon; we took a taxi to a local mall (something out of a lame 80’s movie…) and had some lunch. After, we were able to catch a nap and watch some of the Olympics before ordering some dinner and then getting to sleep. We spent the day on Saturday with Sharesa (the VSC recruiter) and Kristi-Anna (another prospective teacher – secondary music) at a Panera restaurant in the outskirts of...