Looking Back and Looking Forward

Christmas, Flowers, and New Beginnings

November Video Update: Fiji, Fellowship, and Friends

September Update

                                                    

Back in New Zealand!!

From Mission Forward

June Update!!

From Mission Forward

New Zealand Visa Miracle!!!

Yeah, we talked to the Embassy on Wednesday and sent the visa to them that day also!!!! We should get it in a month !! Praise the Lord! We are now in Nebraska for the weekend visiting Jeds grandmaw one last time. Wednesday we will be flying to Alaska for Geoffs Wedding and having fun with friends for a week! Pray for our safe travels and that it does not snow to bad!!!

Pray for our NZ Visa

Hey guys, we need you to give a quick prayer for us. We have our medical certificates, chest x-ray certificates, job offer forms, and job qualification evidence—almost every form we need to include with our 2 year Working visa application. The only thing between us and going to New Zealand in June is a police form that basically proves Kayla and I aren't criminals.

The problem: we did not know it can take 13 weeks to process a simple criminal background report. What's worse is that our Medical and Chest X-ray certificates will no longer be valid if we have to wait to send our visa with the police form.

What to pray for: that New Zealand Immigration (whom we are waiting to hear back from) would tell us that we can send our Application with the forms we have and send the police form at a later date. Better yet please pray that there would be another way of proving to NZ Immigration that we are of good character.

Thanks everyone so much for your prayers!

April Update!

Back in the Rockies

After 4 delays, 1 cancelation, a night in a hotel, 2 meal vouchers and another delay, we are finally in Colorado. We've already spoken to Faith's Mission's Committee and it went well. We are now here in Loveland for the next two months where we'll be meeting with friends, connecting with the church, and spending time with family. We're just shy of reaching 1/4 of our Monthly support goal, so please pray our efforts here will be fruitful.

Its all coming together!!!

Life in the Bayou!

Today is January 23rd, it is now 5 weeks before we leave Louisiana and go to Colorado for two months, then back to Louisiana for a month and then off to New Zealand!! Crazy how time goes by so quickly and how God just shows you how he is going to completely provide for us! For a quick update on the past couple months... We moved to Louisiana on December 1st to raise support! We had a wonderful Christmas with my family and lots of fun family time! I had a good birthday with my husband (which included breakfast in bed, quality time all day, a movie and yummy Copelands at night with all the family) We worked at Logan's Roadhouse for 5 weeks (our last week was this week). Now we are in the middle of raising support.

Raising Support!

Last week we spoke at our first church. It was a small church in the middle of the woods of Louisiana. Honestly we were not expecting much but BOY did God like to surprise us!! Jed said the other day that he is experiencing something totally different with raising support then he ever has had before. I have lived here all my life and I have been going on mission trips since I was 12 and I have always been provided for but this is different. We are going overseas for good, no more school, no more short trips, this is for life! Thats a little scary sometimes to think about. We are speaking at 5 different churches and two of them have mission committees that we are speaking to also! This isn't just two minute presentations, this is Jed preaching and having the entire morning service and then both of us presenting in the entire night service! We were not expecting this! God is good!

Pray!

There are a couple things that you could be praying with us about:

• Pray for the next six sundays we will be at different churches, pray that their hearts will be open to Mission Forward!
• Pray that we will figure out our visa situations for New Zealand soon!
• Pray that Jed and I will have meaningful time with family and friends before we leave Louisiana!
• Pray about what you can do to be a part of Mission Forward!