what next... steps for buying tickets

OK, so now I have the shots, all are up to date.  Randy had his done in 2006.

The solar power system is shipping even as I type, different parts from different places, and we hope to have all of that taken care of in the next week.  Abraham solar was a great help, if you want to buy solar power things, or just work with a really nice guy.

Now comes the tricky part, the container has a narrow window to be loaded, and we are waiting for the shipping company to give us the date they will bring the container to Portland IN for loading.  Meantime we are working on residence visas, but cannot purchase tickets until we know the date the container will arrive in Portland.

So the answer to the big question, "When are you actually leaving?" is still in someone else's hands, and we do not know.  We think it will be mid-September, but we will post here as soon as we are confirmed.

And on a very personal note, we celebrated 32 years of marriage on Thursday, something rare in our current culture!

And now you know all that we know!  Back to packing!  Thank you again for your prayers and support, we could not do any of this without your work behind the scenes.  Oh, and I am still working part-time.  Randy is completely "unemployed", but manages to be busy all day with running things to IN for packing and getting the house ready for us to be gone three years (or more!)  Jesse promises to put info up here on the site about contacting Global Ministries, just in case you wonder.

green lights... at least, not red lights!

Well, things are a little bit crazy, the stop light may have changed (we sort of need Jeff back from China to be certain where we are!)  But, we do know we no longer are in a holding pattern.  We need to have the solar system on order (thanks to Dr. Dudis for all the help!) and once it ships we can schedule the container and then we purchase our tickets!

We do not think it can all happen to allow us to fly out before August 21st, so now we are looking at August 28th as the first "realistic" and possible date.  The solar system will actually determine the final pack date and the ship date.  

When we got the first inclination of the green light on Friday morning Randy turned to me and said it reminded him of a quote from a movie..."Boys, our little experiment has just jumped to a higher energy level."  Can you identify the movie?  

Happy thought, we could be in Sierra Leone one month from today!  God will need to act in all kinds of fun things to make it happen, so we will keep you posted!  Thanks for your prayers and all the support and help! ...IQ!