Hello again

Well, as you can tell we have taken a bit of a break from the blog world. The truth is that we have not had too much going on other than Ryan frantically trying to finish his classes so he can graduate this spring from his masters program and I have been working all the time at the day care and making tons of soap for awesome people to buy :-) It's not at all that we have in any way forgotten our goal of moving over to Germany, it's just that sometime God asks for us to be patient and wait for His perfect timing. It seems as though we have been waiting forever! BUT we do know that it is important to finish up our degrees, pay off school debt and make sure we are set and ready to start strong with full time support raising come May of this year. Our estimated time of departure for Germany is sometime in the year of 2013!

We do have a trip to Germany coming up at the end of the month actually! At the very end of the month Ryan and I will be leaving for Germany to attend a conference/ missionary retreat at the Kontaktmission headquarters in Wüstenrot. We’ll get a chance to meet with KM missionaries from all around Europe as well as to meet with a smaller group of missionaries to Germany to plan, discuss and pray. We are currently looking for churches and or individuals to prayerfully as well as finically support us so that we are able to go to this conference this year. We went last year and are still amazed at how wonderful of a week it was! We were to be able to make connections with other missionaries to Germany as well as other European countries. We will be flying standby to and from Germany to try and save on airfare, so all in all the week will add up to about $1,500. If any of you would be able to support us in any way (financially and/ or prayerfully), that would be so amazing! Please let me know.

Here are some pictures from last year's conference/ retreat:

We hope to keep up with this blog a lot more as we come closer to our goal of leaving for Germany in 2013! Stay tuned for more updates and to see what going on with me and Ryan!

Love and blessings to you all!