We have some GOOD NEWS to share!!!!
HEALTH
I have now had 9 days of no vomiting and no meds (sorry - that may be too much info for some people - but in my case - this is such a HUGE praise!!!!) After 4 weeks of volatile and violent sickness - it is looking like I am moving past that stage. Every day I have said over and over throughout the day.... "Thank you God that I am not sick...thank you so much"....and every time my voice has cracked and I have teared up. Unless you have ever been so violently sick for so long - you can't understand how emotional it is to be HEALTHY. I don't understand why some women experience no problems with pregnancy, and yet others like me become violently ill. Yet I trust the Lord with my life.
I am SO thankful for so many of you that PRAYED earnestly for me during this time. I thanked God for you in the midst of my sickness - knowing that God was using you to get me through this dark time.
DATE TO FIELD
As of yesterday we received a PLAN and a TIMEFRAME from our directors in Spain!!! Brad's visa is still the only one in our family of 4 that has been granted - but we are going ahead and setting a date for leaving! Even if we have to come back later to retrieve the other visas. With Spain this process has been so unpredictable for so many missionaries! Ugh!
So - tentatively our new final date to LEAVE for the field is January 10th! That is in just 32 short days with the holidays crammed in there too! We have been trusting God while we wait on these Visas - knowing that our lives are in His hands. We had been starting on language study - and then all of a sudden - WHAM! we found out about our little surprise and I had several weeks of sickness. So in retrospect - we are thankful that we didn't have to surge forward with visas during this past month - because it would have been IMPOSSIBLE considering my condition.
SO HOW CAN YOU PRAY?
THIS IS HUGE!
1. First and foremost: PLEASE pray for a miracle here. Pray that mine and the girls visas will be granted BEFORE we depart in January!!! That way no one has to make a trip back to the states in the coming months to pick them up! This is HUGE! And we KNOW our God can do it! Please pray earnestly with us for this miracle!
2. Pray that as the last minute pressures come on us of having to purchase the transformers and supplies we need before we go, of packing concise for the container shipment, of taking care of final bills and utilities, of finding cheap flight tickets, and all that goes in with a move like this - that we will NOT be overwhelmed. Pray that we will have peace, energy, strength, wisdom, finances, and help to accomplish it all without becoming over stressed.
3. Pray that God will go before us and help the residence paperwork on the Spain side to go quickly and smoothly. This is big.
4. Pray that God will go before us and open up the exact perfect and right home for us at just the right time and rental price.
5. Pray for this new life. Pray that God will protect this baby and even now bless this child to become a mighty person for Him.
PRAYER NEEDS of Missionary Friends:
DAWN MARIE HELIN - one of our team members at IMM in Spain has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She is undergoing chemo and treatment right now. The Helins are an AMAZING family that God is using in great ways in this ministry. They also have 4 incredible children. Please pray for perfect healing and blessing in their lives.
WADE DICKERSON - Wade is the husband of one of our PHENOMENAL staff members, Nancy, at Assemblies of God World Missions. This past Wednesday he had another cornea transplant in hopes to restore his vision. He has already become legally blind and can hardly see at all. He is so discouraged by his loss of sight and we are all praying for a MIRACLE. PLEASE pray for Wade that God will intervene in this and help the transplant to miraculously take and restore his sight. I can not imagine what this must be like.
Let's pray friends! Thank you! When we agree together in prayer mighty strongholds can be moved!
