October Report
First let me start out by saying, “Thank You,” for all the e-mails, cards, phone calls and gifts given to us for our birthdays. They were such a blessing to us.
October was a very busy month for us, and was spent mostly in the state of Texas. We are finishing up our deputation as we continue to raise the last of our support needed to leave for Australia.
Support and Visa Report
We are currently at 94% on our support level and as I mentioned in our last prayer letter, we have sent over all of our paperwork necessary to apply for our Australian Visas.
I spoke with Bro. Manessis (the national pastor helping us with our visas on the Australian side) via e-mail, and he is confident that our application should be sitting on the desk of an immigration representative by the end of this week sometime. We are so excited! The application, once turned in to immigration, could take as long as 6-8 weeks to be approved. Once the application is approved on the Australian side, they will send us an application that we will need to fill out and turn in to the Australian Embassy here in the United States, which will include, health checks, and background checks from local and federal law enforcements. Once we turn these applications in and get approved we will purchase plane tickets and prepare for the BIG move to Australia.
Pastor Manessis seems to think that this whole process should put us over in Australia sometime around March or April of 2010, depending on how quickly or slowly immigration is about approving our applications. Please pray for this process and also pray that our visas will be approved without any problems.
Thanksgiving
We are excited that our schedule affords us the opportunity to be home for Thanksgiving. We have so much for which to be thankful. Most importantly, we are thankful for God sending His son to make a way of salvation so that mankind could escape the fires of hell. We are also very thankful for churches like you who support missionaries, in your prayers and finances, so that we might be able to share this Good News with others. We trust you all will have a wonderful, Happy Thanksgiving.