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April 2009 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

FAY FOOTPRINTS Lutheran Bible Translators

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Volume 2, Issue 2

Lucy Jo Fay born March 31, 2009

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Praise God for a healthy baby and momma!

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Praise Him for an incredible February and March. We could feel His hand upon us while we were apart and saw Him working in mighty ways to build up our support team.

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Pray for wisdom in the timing of the next few steps toward departure to France (see article on back).

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Pray for us all as we get to know our newest family member and adjust to being a family of four.

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Pray for our last few weeks speaking in Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas, that God would continue to raise up prayer and financial partners to sustain this ministry.

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Lucy’s entrance into the world was full of twists and turns, with a relatively short labor up until pushing (which lasted 3.5 hours) before we all decided she might want to come out a different way. She was delivered by c-section with the help of some amazing nurses (and of course the Real Help from above). Baby and mom are doing very well and we are all feeling very blessed! Just a note: she will be baptized May 9th during the 6:30 PM worship service at Our Shepherd in Indianapolis for those who are in the area and would like to come.

Pray For Us...

10 lb, 13 oz. and 22 in.

In His Time... Attend IDIOM (orientation to LBT) in May ‘06 LBT application (‘06-’07)

Appointment as LBT missionaries (Jan ‘08)

Partnership Development (Prayer and Financial support) July ‘08-July ‘09

Classes at GIAL in TX (July ‘07—June ‘08)

Depart for Chambéry, France, for French study August ‘09

Depart for field assignment in Cameroon January ‘11

A Very Important Sticker

Schedule for April and May

Visas might not seem like much as they are a just a simple sticker placed in your passport, but they are very important. They tell the government of the country you’re in how long you can stay and why you are there. We have begun the process of applying for French visas. It involves getting lots of paperwork to three different entities (the school we are going to attend, an organization overseeing education in France, and the French consulate). Soon we must schedule an interview and this is where things really get tricky. We are hoping to receive a long-term student visa, which we would receive very shortly after our interview. We would then have a three month window in which to arrive in France. If our funds are not adequate and we cannot leave during that three month window, we would need to apply all over again. Also, there is a possibility that the French government might not grant us the longterm student visa but rather a regular long-term visa. This involves an extra 4-5 months of processing time. Please pray with us as we schedule the interview that everything would

Write to us at: The Fays 30 Garden Point Zionsville, IN 46077 [email protected] www.fayfootprints.com

4/19 University Lutheran in Bloomington, IN 4/26 Prince of Peace in Martinsville, IN 5/3 Emanuel in Tipton, IN 5/10 St. George in Edinburg, IN 5/16-5/17 Immanuel Lutheran in Waterloo, IL 5/24 Prince of Peace in Topeka, KS 5/31 Christ Lutheran in Topeka, KS Also of note, we will be commissioned at Our Shepherd in Indianapolis, IN on the afternoon of June 14 (Everyone is invited! Details to follow!) come together in His perfect timing.

insignificant. Also, our household set-up is completely funded!!! That Partnership update leaves one last fund: our vehicle fund. As you might have guessed, Last newsletter, we were about 25% the roads in Cameroon are not quite funded when looking at the average like those here in America. Paved of three months. This newsletter, we roads are a real luxury, to say the are thrilled to say that we are nearly least. We will need a heavy duty 80% funded, taking the average of vehicle, such as a Land Rover, to get the months of Dec-Feb. God is ourselves from place to place safely. abundantly gracious and we are Thanks to a grant from the Internahumbled at His power. Thank you tional LWML and an excess of gifts all who have been with us from the given to our household set-up, we beginning and all who have joined already have $18,099 in our vehicle this team more recently. LBT needs fund. We need to raise a total of to see that our funds are coming in $40,000. This is another great opconsistently every month before we portunity for those who would like can depart for France. In order to to help in some way but not on a leave in August, we need to reach monthly basis. 100%. If 40 more people gave $20 a The mission of month and 10 more people gave $50 a In His Love, month, we would be completely Kory, Cara, Sam, LBT is to help bring people to funded! No amount is too small or and Lucy faith in Jesus Christ by making the Word of God Note: new Send financial support to: available to those address! Lutheran Bible Translators who do not yet P.O. Box 2050 have it in the lanAurora, IL 60507-2050 guage of their (Make checks out to “Lutheran hearts. For more Bible Translators” and write “Fay information on ministry” or “Fay Vehicle” on the LBT go to memo line) www.lbt.org