August 1 Deadline - packing and trusting

August 1. That's the date we're aiming at to be out of our home here in New York. So we've been packing like mad and clearing out a lot of stuff from our house. We're leaving some things here in our house while we're in Kenya working at Tenwek Mission Hospital - so the photo above shows you our strategy for moving back and forth from Africa.

We're also packing things FOR Kenya. Clothes for everyone for the next few years including those of us who are growing like weeds, school curriculum for the kids, things not readily available in Kenya (or that are just much cheaper here) - it's an interesting task.

Friday we head to the Travel Clinic in town to get everyone up to date on their "I don't want to get some tropical sickness" shots. Caleb is in for a bad day I'm afraid. 

Grateful for: 

• 80% of our monthly financial needs!
• short term work - we've yet to start taking a salary with WGM so monies coming in now will all go to startup costs
• family time in August - and places to lay our heads!
• friends who are letting us join them at their Adirondack camp with our family in August

Prayin' about:

• renting our home in East Greenbush
• work visa paperwork to come through
• completing our monthly financial support
• speaking at Petersburg Baptist Church Sunday July 26th
• speaking at Ithiel Falls Camp Meeting Tuesday July 28th
• shipping container details
• staffing at Tenwek Hospital is bare bones these days.  Pray that we can get there soon, and for strength and energy for those there now

Our hope is to be out of our home by August 1 with all of our financial needs met, spend time in August with family (with one more week of work to pay the bills) and then fly out to Kenya sometime in September - God willing. We are also making plans to pack a shipping container with two other families who are heading to Tenwek - bringing items that are difficult or expensive to obtain in Kenya.

Thanks to all who have been so supportive and encouraging to us. It is a wild ride doing what we know God is asking us to do with our lives.