Wow, time is sure going by quickly now! We have about 5 months before we leave and I feel like we have so much to do before September. I am trying hard not to stress and to leave the details up to God but this is so hard! I believe this is part of what God wants me to learn though so it's fine, I am doing my best to let go of my control issues.
We had a big garage sale in March at the church and it was wonderful to see all of the support! We had lots of people donate some great items for us to sell and by the end of the day we made just over $2,000! There's one plane ticket! To date, between saving and financial gifts we have been given, we have made about $7,000 which means we still need around $28,000. I have been told of some great fund raising ideas, and the next one I am working on is a "Dessert and Silent Auction" night. I have approached some people who I felt might be interested in donating their time or talents and have quite a few more people/businesses I am going to ask. I really want to make this a community event in hopes that lots of our friends from the island will come. We have a wonderful church family as well as many friends in the community so we hope to mesh the two groups and have a fun night!
As some of you know, Aaron and I went away to Switzerland for the first 2 weeks of April to attend Dustin and Susanna's wedding. This was an amazing 2 weeks with a quick stop in Vegas to surprise one of my best friends who lives there. While in Switzerland, we met some amazing people and it just so happens that some of them will actually be in Perth on the YWAM base when we get there! It was awesome to make some friends that will be in Australia to greet us when we arrive. We saw God's hands all over that vacation, from start to finish and felt so blessed to have time set apart for just the two of us. We needed a little time together before we set out for our next big adventure, but now we are ready and going full speed ahead!
If you haven't read the rest of my posts, please do! They have lots of details about our needs, what we're doing and our finances. Speaking of which, we came home to yet another envelope from a friend wanting to be one of our 140...if you don't know what that means, go read my other posts to find out! I think we are down to needing about 120 or so instead of 140 so this is good! You too can be one of our 140, it's pretty easy to become part of this elite group! Thanks for reading and come back for more soon! We appreciate your love and support and appreciate any help you can offer, weather it be your prayers, fund raising ideas, financial advice or gifts, or whatever it may be. We already feel so blessed to have so many people standing with us as we make our way to Perth to live out God's plans for our family. Blessings to you!
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