God is so good, so good, so good!

We are so very excited to finally have no home and hardly any possessions to our name! I know it sounds a little strange, but if you had spent the last few months trying to sell aforementioned home and its roomfuls of stuff, you would feel the same way.

• We got not one, but two offers on our house while we were in Atlanta at Candidate Week. God orchestrated the situation so that we got full asking price on our house, as is! (Must be that awesome cleaner/interior designer we had come in to prepare for the showings ;-). The buyers also wanted about 75% of our furniture, so we didnt have to worry about finding new homes for it or move it.
• A gracious man in our church had a home he wasnt using, and offered it to us for the next few months until we move. It is furnished, which was just a huge answer to prayer. Also dishes, towels, trash cans, everything you need. It is also on a ton of property, i dont know how many acres, so its just like living in the country. I can now put my kids out to pasture, and they can be free range :-)
• Proclaim Aviation Ministries, who we are now officially missionaries with (which still takes my breath away and brings tears to my eyes, that i can say that. just look on their website under missionaries; yep, there we are! www.proclaimaviation.org), has a home that they will rent to us in Minnesota.  It is also furnished, and we are heading up there in a few weeks to check it out, along with the town and the airport where Patrick will be working.
• We had an amazing turnout for our moving sale, no i did not take pictures. nor did we breathe, eat, sleep, or anything else for about a week. at least it felt that way. We had enough boxes left over to have another full sized garage sale the following weekend. By then we were practically begging people to take our stuff. Pottery Barn duvet cover for $10, sure, why not? Patrick and I tag teamed as we sold each others stuff, thats easier than watching your own things get carted off for pennies!
• We spoke in church a few weeks ago, which was another "wow, this is real" moment. Our pastor is so supportive, both verbally and financially. We have an informal get together meet and greet on tues, oct 9 for anybody with questions, members of the community who dont go to our church, and people who may want to partner in this ministry. We're praying God brings people who He is leading to part of our team.
• We have prayer cards, and they will be going out with newsletters here in a few weeks. or whenever i get around to writing them. really, whenever we get around to collecting all those adresses! So make it easier on us, just leave a comment if you'd like to receive our newsletter.
• A reporter came to our sale to take pictures and asked for an interview. What do you know, apparently in Pratt KS it was front page news ;-). I was nervous about being misrepresented, even by accident, but it was a positive experience, and got alot of people thinking about international missions, and hopefully finding the peace with God that we talked about in the article. http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20121001/NEWS/121009892
• It has been so encouraging and exciting to see people participate already, in large and small ways. Family was a huge help, we absolutely could not have done it without them. The printing people did up our moving sale signs for free. the paper gave us a discount on our ad. a friend babysat the kids for me, and another friend came to the sale, even bringing along her own babysitter, so she could be completely committed to manning the check out table (huge job) for us, for the entire 2 day sale. Other people donated stuff for us to sale. Somebody I barely know, the lady who does story time at the library, just came up and gave me a donation. My dental hygienist offered to donate supplies whenever we need them, to have a clinic or something. I am so humbled to see all the people God uses, and all the roles that need to be filled, and all the willing servants that step up and say I want to do something. I cannot wait to get to Africa so we can turn around and share with this army of people back here, this is what God is doing! This is how the Kingdom of Light is turning back the kingdom of darkness, this is how the enemy is being defeated. and its because of you, my friend. and you, complete stranger! and you, and you, and you.