New Addition Coming Soon!

No, this isn't our new baby. This is Joshua after he was born. But I thought I would get the blog ready with baby pictures, because that is what you can expect after Tuesday, August 14, 2007. Annette will be induced tomorrow! We will make sure to put up some pictures for you to view of our new baby. Please pray for a safe (and quick) delivery for both mommy and baby. We are excited to welcome our fourth addition to our family! So stay tuned! Now for a quick update on everything else. We are hoping to make a smooth (whatever that word means) transition to Las Vegas in the next two weeks. The home where we are staying will be re-occupied by its owner on August 25th, so we need to be out on the 24th. Please pray for housing to open up in Las Vegas so we do not have to make an extra transition to another dwelling. Micah is scheduled to begin school on August 27th, so if our housing opened up at that time that would work out really great. We grow more and more excited to land in Las Vegas! On the fundraising front, things seem to be going slow with pledge cards coming in as of late. That is the nature of summer though, so we are still encouraged. We have almost broken the $100,000 barrier in pledges, and this is extremely encouraging! We have a lot of people and churches making decisions in late August and September, so please be praying that the Lord would move in their hearts to join this mission to North Las Vegas. My parents are hanging in there and still have their home on the market to be sold. Housing market is not good for that right now, so please pray for their house to sell in the right time. For a few good reasons, I have elected to put off going through ordination until January of next year. I will be coming under care of Pacific Presbytery at their next meeting in September (they asked me to do this first then go through ordination at the next scheduled meeting in January). This works out a lot better for me and our family. With all the transition going on, I found it difficult to effectively study anyway. This slight delay in the ordination process has yielded some great family time at a local waterpark (its been really hot in St. Louis). This has helped both the kids and Annette tremendously! So here we stand, asking the Lord to provide a healthy and safe delivery and baby, depending upon the Lord to open up a place for us to live in Las Vegas, trusting him to provide for our financial needs, hoping that he will work out all the details with my folks, and asking him to help me study for ordination exams. We are also joyful that he has blessed us with another child, thankful that he seems to be working to open up a home for us free from financial burdens for the next four or so months, trusting his promises to provide everything we need according to his glorious riches, confident that he will work out all the details with my folks at the right time, and glad he has been preparing me well for these ordination trials for the past three years. We would not want to be in any other place! Please join us in praying, because that has been the cause of our faith sustaining during this time of transition. Prayer makes the difference!