Our move to Africa seemed so distant a year ago when we were answering questions about when we would go and what we would be doing. It even seemed a bit impossible a couple months ago when we calculated how much we still needed to fly over and get set up.
It was so surreal yesterday when I was in contact with a travel agent trying to work out the details of a flight and so exciting when we were finally able to make the reservation and pay for the tickets. It is so exciting to finally be able to say that we will be leaving on July 18th. Even though we had hoped to be over there a month earlier we are so thankful for God’s provision to be leaving now. We know that He had this all planned beforehand.
The next few weeks we will be getting the rest of our things packed, doing a bit more traveling and trying to sell our van. I am not sure if it will happen in that order or not. It has been a journey with some ups and downs but it has been good. We feel a lot like the Israelite priests who had to step into the flooded Jordan before the Lord opened up the dry pathway through it. We have seen the Lord provide for us to get to this point and we will need to continue to trust Him to sustain us over there. We are looking to Him to continue to raise up ministry partners who want to be a part of what He is doing over in Southeast Africa.