As the story continues, we are still in the working to be debt-free mode. Yesterday we paid off our smaller credit card balance. It was a milestone. One step closer to being on the mission field, wherever that may be.
We have also started exploring missions opportunities with other groups, besides OM. I don't know who we will end up with, but we've had some good conversations with various mission directors of organizations. It's been productive to learn about several agencies, along with their focus and ministries. We were asked if we wanted to stay in the US and basically head their conference department for a group out on the East Coast this week, but we turned it down. They are a great organization and very gracious when we declined their offer. We honestly have no desire to live any longer in the USA. Our hearts are for foreign lands.
So in two weeks we are meeting face to face with one organization over lunch, and then have a phone call with the Christan Missionary Alliance (which helps to place you within missionary organizations) in early November.
We are still moving forward, but as of right now, we don't know yet where we will be or with who. I have a sense that things are being put together even now as I type this post, but it's timing will be perfect for us and our family. God is sensational about connecting people together and I wait contently in His precense in the meantime.
On a side note, I had a nice time reconnecting with a woman who traveled with me when I was the tour director for ICCL Ukraine. She has continued her trips to Ukraine and even has become good friends with my former office administrator (my boss in Kiev). So through the grapevine, I was able to say hello and receive a hello from her. Makes me miss Ukraine even more today.
What else in life is going on? Well, I have been busy with making preparations for CBN's Orphan's Promise group coming over in December. They will be bringing a tour group of orphans to perform the Christmas musical "The Old Russian Shoemaker" in Colorado. I've been making bookings at churches, which is a new thing for me. I have never played "agent" before, but thus I find myself learning a new skill set. So come late November and through the month of December, life will be a bit hectic with transporting the tour group, hosting them and generally playing mother hen for 14 more individuals. Fun!
Well, I think I'll sign off now. Thanks for reading, we will update as we have more information.
Kelly
We have also started exploring missions opportunities with other groups, besides OM. I don't know who we will end up with, but we've had some good conversations with various mission directors of organizations. It's been productive to learn about several agencies, along with their focus and ministries. We were asked if we wanted to stay in the US and basically head their conference department for a group out on the East Coast this week, but we turned it down. They are a great organization and very gracious when we declined their offer. We honestly have no desire to live any longer in the USA. Our hearts are for foreign lands.
So in two weeks we are meeting face to face with one organization over lunch, and then have a phone call with the Christan Missionary Alliance (which helps to place you within missionary organizations) in early November.
We are still moving forward, but as of right now, we don't know yet where we will be or with who. I have a sense that things are being put together even now as I type this post, but it's timing will be perfect for us and our family. God is sensational about connecting people together and I wait contently in His precense in the meantime.
On a side note, I had a nice time reconnecting with a woman who traveled with me when I was the tour director for ICCL Ukraine. She has continued her trips to Ukraine and even has become good friends with my former office administrator (my boss in Kiev). So through the grapevine, I was able to say hello and receive a hello from her. Makes me miss Ukraine even more today.
What else in life is going on? Well, I have been busy with making preparations for CBN's Orphan's Promise group coming over in December. They will be bringing a tour group of orphans to perform the Christmas musical "The Old Russian Shoemaker" in Colorado. I've been making bookings at churches, which is a new thing for me. I have never played "agent" before, but thus I find myself learning a new skill set. So come late November and through the month of December, life will be a bit hectic with transporting the tour group, hosting them and generally playing mother hen for 14 more individuals. Fun!
Well, I think I'll sign off now. Thanks for reading, we will update as we have more information.
Kelly
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