One of the sayings we heard over and over at our training at Missionary Training International (MTI) in Colorado is, "You never know where the missionary road will lead." This proved true during our time there as a missionary preparing to go to Uganda as a nurse received word about an Ebola outbreak in the area she would be serving. The outbreak took the life of a Ugandan doctor who was to one of her colleagues and held the potential to delay her departure date by months. After a few weeks of uncertainty she left for Uganda a couple of weeks late.
Another time this saying proved true was as another family at MTI who was planning on tent making on the mission field received a phone call telling them the company they were going to work for had to make cuts, and their contract had been terminated. In one 5 minute phone call 2/3 of their support was gone. God has since provided a way for them to go to language school as planned and they are currently working at raising the needed support and trusting that God will provide.
Now it is our turn, although what we are considering is not nearly as drastic as the previous two. Up until now we have been focused on moving in June and attending a two month intensive language session in June and July. After talking further to the language school it sounds like a better fit for our family would be to attend language school from late August to mid-December.
Pushing back our move date would have other advantages as well. It would give us more time to meet our support goals and would us more time to prepare to move. We are currently planning on moving about a week after Tracey is done with school. Waiting a couple of months also has its draw backs as it would basically move our "ministry" start date from early August to January 1. This would cause things to be moved and shuffled in 2009.
At the moment we are leaning toward pushing our move back to August. Please be in prayer for this decision and that God would grant us and Students International wisdom and that we would choose the course of action that would best start SI-Costa Rica.
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8 years ago
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Wow- we'll be praying about this with you. It's so hard to have big unknowns like this. Praying God will make things really clear for you and bring everything together.
First off-how did you get blogger to let you put a .pdf file up???
And no, God doesn't give us a road map, but He lets you know what's coming up just when you need it. Since about the middle of November we have been wondering if we needed to move our move date back to fall, but it still wasn't clear. So we continued to push on knowing God would let us know in HIS time. January 1st-He let us know. MTI had looks on the doors for a good reason! We are looking now at leaving end of Sept/early Oct depending on the time it takes to get a new passport expediated. :)
Be sure to let us know your plans for March-we'd love to meet you somewhere for a visit!!
Brian & Kelly Jo
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