we are official now!

We just returned from 9 days of Candidate Seminar with ABWE (Association of Baptists for World Evangelism) in Harrisburg, PA. It was a long and tiring week but it was also VERY good! This week came with lots of tests as well as many blessings.

ANSWER TO PRAYER #1
It started out with a huge answer to prayer! We have been praying for a long time what God would have us to do regarding a vehicle. Traveling during pre-field with all of our belongings and things needed for meetings at churches, as well as a family looked next to impossible with a two-door sports car! So we were trusing in God to provide-and He did! We received a phone call on the way up to the seminar that God had laid on their hearts to give us a vehicle! This was a HUGE blessing-such an answer to prayer!

A TEST FROM GOD
We had a few days set aside for ABWE to do different individual interviews; one of them being a financial interview. A few years ago Ryan started a home inspection business-which obviously had some start up costs. Well as of now, it still has not paid itself off-because of the economy and very bad market. Therefore- there is some business debt that has to be dealt with.

ABWE has its rules regarding debt-whether it be consumer debt or school debt. But there isn’t anything written about business debt-that is how we even got this far. About halfway through the week it was brought to our attention that we would not be able to be presented before the board to be approved by ABWE with the debt we have.

It was really amazing to find out that one of the financial consultants of ABWE that we were discussing the issue with woke up in the middle of the night the day after we talked to him and we came to his mind-and then he prayed for us. After much discussion it was decided that we would not be presented on the last day. This presented a major road block for us. This means we can not go out to churches and raise support until we are approved! We just had to face the fact and trust God that His timing is always perfect.

ABWE gave us possibility to be presented before the board of ABWE if we could present to them people that are guaranteed to assist us with the plan we have in place. So we did everything we could in that area-by making phone calls, sending emails, and just praying-praying-praying!

ANSWER TO PRAYER #2
Sunday night-the night before the board meeting were to take place-we got a call that answered that prayer! PRAISE GOD! He worked out all the details and provided the funding we needed to proceed to the board interview on Monday! We were definitely humbled and so thankful for that answer to prayer!

So Monday we met before the board and were accepted into ABWE! It was such a relieving feeling after everything we had been through this week-but it's all God! None of this happened because of us! It was a pretty long day after preparing for the board meeting then getting everything set up, financially, with ABWE. Praise God that everyone on Team Kenya that went to this seminar was approved!

We are official now!!