This is a post that has been in my head for about a month.  A month ago I was vising the church I go to MOPS at, and the pastor was preaching a sermon on faith and how it important it is for us to step out and test our "faith muscle".  I had meant to write in more detail about it and how much it ment in light of our step of faith for our trip to Kenya, but we got sick and life just got crazy.

Then, I read this amazing quote from Beth Moore's blog today (and it reaffirmed what I'd been thinking, only says it MUCH better):

God called us through Christ to an adventure that never ends. To seeks answers that are never fully satisfied. Not here on earth anyway. You and I were given restless hearts so that we’d only be satisfied with a wild ride. Some of us try to find it elsewhere because we've reduced our relationship with God to a neatly compartmentalized religion we pay regular homage to. We keep our faith to ourselves because we haven’t got that much to spare. We expect little and get little. This way, we don’t have to let it get to us much. But if you engage in the real, live walk of faith with the real, live Jesus Christ, it’s GOING to get to you because HE’S going to get to you. You will get your feelings hurt at times because you’re close enough to be vulnerable. Faithful enough to put yourself out there. Because sometimes walking by faith and not by sight creates as many questions as answers.

She had several points in her writing, but her comments on our need for adventure, or a wild ride, reminded me of that initial sermon I heard a month ago. 

This last few months have been interesting. It has been a blessing for support to come in. Friday & Saturday we had a team retreat to get ready for our trip next month. I drove the boys up to Mom and Dad's–it was a huge help to have them watching the boys! As I was driving home Friday, I was thinking and praying about how much we still needed to come up with.  Our host church (not the church we attend) wanted all funds in by the 15th. If we had not met our goal, they asked that we be prepared to write a check for the difference.  I was praying (and fretting) about how we just didn't have the ability to write that check.  We were blessed during this weekend to receive the final amounts that we needed!  I had been planning to write this Friday saying "We have 84%!" Then I had thought I'd be writing "We have 95%!"  Instead, when I finally had time to write this post I'm able to say "We have 104%!!!"  What a blessing!  (The extra money will go to help another team member or to pay for the VBS supplies we're going to be bringing with us.)

We will try to do a better job keeping you up to date on our preparation and then the trip. I hope to write a bit more about our retreat and then more details on our jobs later in the week.  But this post is long enough and it's getting late, so I'll end it for now.  Thank you all who have supported, and thank you all who have been praying for us! Please keep it up!