We started out Monday morning geared up and ready to do some leg work for the upcoming move. Our younger three need to get passports and we all needed to get some sort of vaccination.
I'm sure many of you understand what it is like getting everyone rounded up to go do something that nobody really wants to go do. Can you say "herding cats".
Once we got going we made our first stop with success and then the rest of the day was down hill. We missed appointment times, forgot to make appointments, left paperwork at home and ended the day with everyone but 2 getting shots.
I have to admit that all the problems we had were due to my lack of planning. My husband and children could have been very upset with me at every turn. Yet God used them to show me grace. I am always so grateful for my husband but especially during this adventure. He kept reminding me that God was greater than our circumstances and this was just opportunity to prepare us for the upcoming challenges that we will be facing.
Thankfully our success on the mission field is not dependent on my being able to plan and perform. It is up to God and I just need to be a willing servant.
Later on in the week we received an anonymous card with a support gift from someone in our neighborhood. What a surprise and blessing that was! Just another reminder of what a great provider God is.
I am looking forward to seeing how God is going to bring all the details of where, how and when we will make it to the Dominican Republic.
Please pray for us as Pat and I, along with Gary and Judy, prepare to go down to the DR on Monday. It will be a scouting trip to visit various ministries, schools, check out housing and other details. I plan on posting about our trip and all that we see.
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