Sunday, April 12, 2009

TICKETS! YAY!

It is officially official! We have purchased our plane tickets for the summer. We will be leaving June 24 arriving in China June 25 and returning home August 12. I am very excited and proud that our team has finally been able to purchase tickets. We ask that you continue to pray for our safety and for our flight situations, that we are able to make the proper connecting flights and get to our destination safely. We are very excited to get started on our work in China. We also ask that you pray for our Training week in Redding, that God prepares the right information and training that we will need when we are in China.

A few other tidbits..we would love your continued prayers for Vacation Bible School materials for the summer it has been very hard finding materials that are suitable for Chinese children because the culture is so different from American culture. Also please continue to pray for the situation in China with the government that relationships are able to reform and be solid before we arrive.

Thanks and GOd Bless!!

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Coming Soon!!

Well it's April which means we are just a few months away from leaving for China. We have just learned some important updates about our trip which could greatly effect our ministry this summer. In one of the cities where we will be spending most of our time there has been a great government change, police officers, mayor, etc. THis may not seem like such a bad thing except that now the local church has lost all of it's previously established relationships with the local government. Previously the local law officials had a good realtionship with the local church which allowed them to run Vacation bible schools with out much trouble. NOw that the government has changed there is a fear that perhaps they will not be so lienent. We ask that you keep this in prayer as you continue to pray for our team. We are still scehduled to work in this area over the summer, but now the level of caution being used by our team will have to escalate quite a bit.

On a lighter note earlier this week we finally recieved enough money to purchase plane tickets!!!!! AHHHH how exciting! We are well on our way to OFFICIALLy going haha. We are very excited and can't wait to hold that itenerary in our hands. The tickets took quite a bit of money away from our budget so we are asking that you continue to pray that God will provide the remainder of our funds, quickly!

I hope that everyone is having an amazing week! We'll update soon again!

God Bless!

China Team