When we left Roanoke, we headed to Ohio. We stayed in Mason, OH for about 3 weeks and what a blessing that was! We stayed in a mission home there and the host church just spoiled us. We were able to visit with church family and friends that we enjoyed so much! We didn't enjoy Seth breaking his elbow while there....but God took care of him and he healed up pretty quickly and without him having to have a cast!
From there we stayed with different ones in Joshua's family all around the Columbus area for the next few weeks. They were all so awesome and we are so thankful for them and all they've done for us! We treasure each moment that we get to spend with family and friends along the way.
God also answered our prayer about our boys attending youth camp. We were invited to go to Anchor Baptist's youth camp as a family and we all had such a great time!
We definitely had some excitement during that week with Jared having (supposed) appendicitis. Joshua and I were in the hospital with him for a couple of days, but praise the Lord, Jared was able to be treated with antibiotics and was able to go back to camp with us for the last day with no surgery!!! We met some great new friends and got to know some others better. God was moving in that camp, and I for one was blessed and challenged in my relationship and walk with the Lord.
We traveled to New York next and stayed with wonderful friends for a week. We are so grateful to those who have opened their homes to our family along this journey. I know what a hard thing that can be sometimes and I pray God blesses each one mightily! We hadn't been in New York since we moved away over 10 years ago, and it was so good to see friends and church family again. We enjoyed every minute!
Then we started heading down to West Virginia. We stopped over in Erie, Pennsylvania for a couple nights...again God blessed us there! Great mission home, great church, and we enjoyed spending time with the church family and the pastor there very much!
And now here we are in West Virginia. We are gearing up to start our homeschool year on Tuesday, the 1st of August, and catching up on some things...one being this blog.
As of this morning, we have visited and worshipped with 46 churches and in 12 of those we have presented our burden for Dominican Republic at scheduled meetings! Every church we've been to has been wonderful and we've realized again and again how small the world really is, with mutual friends everywhere we go. We are so humbled and blessed! God is so good! Starting next week our meetings start to pick up...praising the Lord for that! We're excited to see what God is going to do and we're excited about what He's already done! Praise the Lord we are 28% (updated from a mess-up) supported now!!!
Please help us pray for our van situation. Both need work done this week...just pray for God's will and for wisdom and guidance on how we should proceed.
Thank you all so much for your prayers, encouragement, and support! We appreciate every single note, email, message, and call! We love you all!
