So, I have to agree with Katie. Honestly, it’s still hard for me to believe the trip is actually going to happen (at least as best as we can tell right now), when just a week ago we were so far away from being able to do it financially. I knew God had some plan up his sleeve, but I was beginning to wonder if it wasn’t going to include us taking the trip.

The money part seemed impossible. Actually, humanly speaking it pretty much was impossible. But God didn’t seem to pay attention to that.

I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to fully express our thanks to each one of you who has given and prayed. But we’ll try our best to do so. I want to especially thank the family (you know who you are) who gave a huge gift, which was very significant in pushing us toward our goal.

As a result of this, I’m happy to announce that I just purchased our international tickets. Woohoo!

(There may be additional expenses that we didn’t anticipate, so we are still accepting donations; but the major expenses have been covered.)

I think I hear some gongs and lizard-skin drums coming from Sera land, where they are expressing their huge thanks as well…