I'm writing tonight from a comfortable armchair in a rambling old farmhouse in the middle of Oklahoma.  We are on the second home of our journey and are already amazed at the hospitality of our friends.  It's wonderful to have friends that actually want us to visit.  I love to have visitors but don't always expect others to feel the same way.  After all, there are six of us...


I can't believe that we only have four weeks until we leave the country.  Time is getting short and, thankfully, so is our to-do list.  Although we haven't bought everything we need yet, we are just a few thousand short of our budget for up-front costs, including a car!  A friend put us in touch with a missionary family leaving Uganda who have an affordable car for sale that we are interested in buying.  Once again, we're excited to see what God is going to do!  Monthly support is coming along well also with probably 75% raised so far.  Thanks to all of you who have committed to sponsoring us or have already given us up-front money.  We have been so blessed and pleasantly surprised by the generosity of the body of Christ. 
Our house sale is also going well, moving along at a slow but steady pace.  We are set to close on June 23rd but are hoping for things to happen a bit faster than that.


Well....I'm feeling tired and ready to go to bed.  Please continue to keep us in your prayers.  We love you all and already miss home.  Thank you for the daily encouragement and tremendous support you have given us.  


- kristi -   

This is just a quick post to update all of you on how things are going.  It's been a crazy week, full of ups and downs, but God has definitely been working throughout!

As you know from our last post, we signed a contract on our house on Friday, April 30th.  On Monday evening my realtor called to tell us that our buyers terminated their contract.  We were very disappointed, but continued to work on last minute preparations for leaving, hoping for another buyer to come quickly!

On Wednesday night at 8:30pm he called back...our buyers wanted our house after all!  Apparently after looking around for a day or so, they changed their minds :)  We're hoping this will be the last time they do that!

Today we had our last Uganda team meeting and BOUGHT OUR TICKETS!! That's right...one-way, non-refundable tickets to Uganda.  We were even more excited when we found out it wouldn't cost us $12,000 as we had originally thought, but only HALF of that!  What a blessing for our family!

God has been so good to us and continues to show us that His plans will be fulfilled.  We are especially thankful for our team and the unity we have experienced with them.  We are looking forward to community life with them in Uganda :)

Please pray for our team members, Cody and Michaela, as they also need to sell their house before leaving.  We appreciate your prayers and emails so much!  You are a vital part of our team!!