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Since our last newsletter, we have passed a lot of milestones. Milestones are much easier to pass than kidney stones, so we have no complaints. In brief summary: •
We celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary.
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We passed the halfway point (end of May) and now the 2/3 point (end of July) in raising our pledge budget.
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We are both now officially Certified Ministers in the Southern Missouri District.
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We learned that Jackie could and should finish her Master’s in Theological Studies by May of 2004 (this will delay our departure for Tanzania by about 3 months, but speed up her degree completion by about 3 years).
Please pray with us for continued protection as we travel.
Pray for continued favor as we try to raise our support.
We finished Candidate School and School of Missions (Jackie’s dad, who was a missionary in the Philippines before retirement, prayed for us at the Commissioning Service).
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Please pray that Jackie would finish well on her Master’s without too much stress.
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Family stuff: •
Eric and Sabrina bought their own home, and Kaiya got her first tooth.
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Tab and Jason moved to the Kansas City area, and Tab and Emma got to spend 2 weeks with us during the transition
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Sarah just turned 21. She has moved into an apartment with roommates from Evangel.
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One of the first things we will do in Tanzania is attend language school. We will be ministering mostly in Swahili, assuming we are capable of learning it. In Swahili, Asante sana, which we’ve adopted as the title of our newsletter, means “Thank you very much!” We have much to be grateful for. It has amazed and blessed us to find that so many friends, old and new, believe in our ministry and are willing to partner with us. Another Swahili phrase that already means a lot to us is “Haraka, haraka, ha ena baraka.” In English: “Hurry, hurry, and you miss the blessing.” May God give us grace and wisdom to make haste slowly.
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