Well, the time is finally drawing near. We have been packing for the last week, and today we are heading back up to San Andreas. It is going to be hard to leave all the wonderful people we have gotten to know here, but we know God has plans for us, and we need to follow through on them. We will be in San Andreas for a couple of days, then on Wednesday, July 2nd, we fly out. We go from San Fransisco to Amsterdam, have a layover, and then fly down to Abuja, Nigeria. We are very excited to be going! We have be planning and preparing for so long that it is hard to believe that the time has actually come for us to go! Thank you for all of your prayers and support. We could not be doing this without you.

Hello everyone! Thank you so much to all of you who have been faithfully supporting us and praying for us. The lack of freaking out at our apartment is evidence that God is in control. We are getting very excited about going! It is less than a month from our departure date, and things are still going smoothly! Man, our God is good! We have both told our jobs that we will be leaving, and it went well, so that is a relief. On a side note, if you have sent stuff into Visa Ministries and not gotten a receipt, please e-mail me so I know and can talk to them about it (joylovessonshine@gmail.com). Thanks again for all of your love and support!

We got our visas!! The Consulate of Nigeria in Atlanta, Georgia was very quick to get them back to us. This is a great relief. All that is left is for us to purchase our medical insurance and to figure out what to pack. THANK YOU so much to all of you who have been supporting us. We are half way to our total fund raising goal! It is very exciting to see God work in the hearts of those around us and to see him provide for out needs. We could not do this without you and we are eternally greatful.

We have officially sent out the paperwork for our Visas! They will be arriving at the Consulate in Atlanta, GA on Tuesday, May 6th. It hopefully won't take the Consulate long to approve them. Once we have them back, we will be legally ready to go. We still need to buy our travel insurance and raise some more support. We are about a quarter of the way to our total goal, and about half way to raising the money we absolutely need. Thank you to all of those who have helped us out this far! We could not do it without you!