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the craziness that has been the last two weeks

We’ve had a pretty busy, event-filled couple of weeks. The school year is over, AAE seniors have graduated, we are officially unemployed, Justin has been practicing with his All-Star team, we volunteered at Fish Fest, we had our long anticipated Applebee’s fundraiser, we shipped 6 boxes to Chicago for placement on a shipping container to Vienna, and we have reduced the belongings in our house to our clothes and the few pieces of furniture that we have yet to sell...

...and in all this, we are still hanging on to the promise that He will provide the funding for this mission. We are currently sitting at 27% of our required support...obviously we have quite a ways to go before we leave on July 31st.  It has been interesting over the last weeks as we prepare for our move to Europe. We definitely have taken many steps to prepare yet there is one hurdle that we CANNOT get over on our own.

We'd love to hear from you if you could support us financially. We are in huge need of supporters giving in the 50-75 dollar range.

Also, if you are one of our faithful supporters, we have a huge favor to ask. Would you be willing to host a presentation for your friends and family. We'd love to be able to share our mission calling with as many people as possible.

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