Summer Stretch

A little bit of Norah mischief...helping herself to items on the bathroom counter

And getting stuck in the 2nd floor skylight of the dollhouse. (Is it bad that this picture makes me smile?)

The girls on a trip to the Alaska Zoo

A trip to McHugh Creek on Turnagain Arm with our friends the Bittles

 July is drawing to a close and we have begun counting down days....Evie is counting down days to her 4th birthday (it's on August 21st), Norah is counting down the days she has left before she is fully weaned (well, she would if she could :) ) and Justin and I are counting down the days until we make the full and complete move to Victory (just under a month).

We fly out to Salem, OR on August 30th. We will be presenting at Bethany Baptist Church while we're there-it's the church Justin attended while he was in college. On September 5th we're flying to Pennsylvania to visit family and present at East Side Bible and Calvary Bible Church. We're hoping to make a quick jog down to North Carolina while we're there to visit our friends the Ellers! On September 23rd we are flying to Minnesota and driving to Bemidji to stay with Steve and Brenda, Justin's parents, and Justin will do some staff recruiting for Victory at Oak Hills Bible College, where Steve is president. We will be returning to Alaska on October 1st.  At least I think I have all the dates right! It's going to be a long trip but we are really looking forward to seeing lots of family and friends and striving towards being at 100% of our support goal.

It is pretty crucial that Justin be able to be at camp to work with the program this fall and we are trusting God to see us through to our full budget at that time. It's very easy to doubt sometimes, when what we're doing looks rather foolish from a world's point of view. I had a chance to talk to a missionary who is visiting Calvary right now and confide in her that I worry sometimes that we won't be able to raise our support and we'll be stuck in limbo forever. She smiled and urged me to throw myself upon the mercy of Christ. She said she has never once been disappointed by taking a step of faith. It was so good to hear those words!

We are gearing up for Vacation Bible School right now at our church. I'm teaching the 3&4 year old class. Our theme this summer is Incrediworld - an amusement park theme from Answers in Genesis. We'll be studying different animals in God's creation. If you live in the area, and have kids through 6th grade, bring them over! It's August 6-10th and we start at 6:15pm.

Victory is in the middle of their last week of camp. We'll be able to stop in and say hi to everyone on Friday on our way to Glennallen. Glennallen Community Chapel is having their annual church campout and outdoor service this weekend. Justin and I will be sharing our testimonies for the church on Saturday night, and on Sunday Justin will present our ministry at Victory and give a short devotional. We're looking forward to camping out and as always, getting to talk about Victory and what God is doing there!

Ways you can be praying for us right now:
-That God will move mountains and we will get to 100% of our support
-That God will plants seeds of faith in young hearts during Calvary's VBS- 8/6 through 8/10
-That the staff at Victory finishes strong and leaves camp praising God for the work He did this summer
-For increasing measures of faith in God, and for us to partake daily of His grace.

Thank you for your prayers! We love hearing from everyone and knowing that we are being covered in prayer. Don't ever underestimate how powerful it is when God's people pray for each other!

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