pray – July 2009
Happy Saturday!
Our Current Concerns
- Annette will be having back surgery on Monday, August 10 in Atlanta. Probably enough said right there. But being away from home is tough on kids, and we’ll all be away from home for at least a week during this process. We’d appreciate your prayer for Annette’s safety and 100% success of the surgery, as well as an easy transition for our kids as we stay at Stephen’s parents’ house for the week.
- We need a minivan or a large SUV. We are scaling back on expenses which means getting one of our vehicles out of our hands. That will be like getting a raise, but we are left with one small car that requires a good hip-hit to close the back doors when all three of our carseats are installed. We need God to provide a minivan or large SUV for little to no cost.
- Our kids. Moving is hard on anyone, but especially kids. We’ve had some tough days with McKenna, especially. Seen some breakthroughs, too. And we’re learning a lot in the process, which is good. But it’s still tough…and we’ve insisted that we will not allow this transition to make our kids bitter towards the Church.
- Finances. It seems that every missionary goes through a season of God stripping away the nonsense and getting focused on the fireproof stuff rather than the flammables [see this post to get what we mean]. We are not the exception. The economy has hit some of Stephen’s web/graphic-design clients hard which in turn means less work that we had been counting on to get us through the summer. Please pray that our Financial Support Team will grow.