Here we go!

Wow ... it really been an unbelievable month and we have been so blessed in so many ways:

• We sold the house! In God's perfect timing, He brought the perfect person along to buy the house. We are so excited for the plans that the new owner has for the house ... knowing that it will be used for ministry makes it so much easier to let go of.
• We are close to having about 50% of our fundraising done!
• Mary Ellen was blessed with a free ticket to the DR so she traveled with the Jupiter Christian School team on March 5th and they helped her take 10 bins of our belongings down - a HUGE blessing! She will spend until the 12th of March doing some more training with Cheryl - another HUGE blessing!
• We participated in our first missions conference as missionaries at our home church - Grace Immanuel Bible Church. Our church family has been such a tremendous encouragement to us!

Our updated time-clock looks something like this:
We will close on the house the last week of March. Provided that all goes according to plan, on April 1st we will begin the journey of our lives! We will leave Palm Beach County, Florida (home for over three decades) and take the next ten days to reach Colorado, stopping to visit family and friends along the way. Cross Cultural training begins at MTI (Mission Training International) in Colorado Springs, on Monday, April 11th.

On Friday, April 29th, MTI finishes and we will fly directly from Colorado to Guatemala to begin five weeks of language school at Centro Linguistico Maya in Antigua, Guatemala. While in the program, we will live with a Guatemalan family and will be fully immered in language learning.

On the 3rd of June, we will return to South Florida to spend a little over a week with family and friends before leaving to head to the DR on the 14th of June! If you are able, please reserve the afternoon of the 11th of June to attend a farewell get-together. We should would love to see you before we leave! We will send out more details as they become available.

Please continue to pray for:

• Our final stage of moving out of our home & our ability to let things go.
• Travel mercies as spend the next couple of months on the road and in the air!
• Our time at MTI and our cross-cultural training.
• Our ability to learn - and RETAIN - Spanish!
• All the goodbye's and see-you-later's we will be having to say.
• 100% funding!