Support Raising is in Full Swing!

Hello all! Well, now that we are somewhat more adjusted to life with our little guy, we have began hit the support raising hard once again! We are just 5 months away from our departure date and just short of 50% monthly funded, with quite a long way to go as far as our start up costs go. But we have full faith in God's ability to provide for our needs!

Just last Sunday night, the missions committee from First Christian Church here in Napa, hosted an informational dessert evening for Ryan and I at the ever so generous Erickson's home! We had a good turn out, but know that a lot of you were not able to make it. Thanks to all of you who did take the time out of your weekend to come listen to Ryan and I share about our hearts for Germany! If you were not able to make it to last Sunday's event, my (Elyse's) parents will be hosting another evening like last Sunday's at their home in June. We will be sending out invitations hopefully later this week!  We feel like it is very important to see as many of you in person that we can before we leave! We know many of you may have questions, and it's just so much easier to dialogue with you in person :-) And of course, we would LOVE to meet with any of you individually if you like as well! Maybe go out for a coffee, or anything! Please let us know if that is something that you are interested in :-)

For our Illinois crowd! We are coming for you! We will be spending about 5 weeks in Illinois starting in mid July! Please let us know if you would like to set up a time to meet with us to talk about Germany and how you can be a part of our support team! ​

well, Ollie's up from his nap... gotta go! :-)

Heading West

One of the big announcements that I planned on sharing with yall a couple months ago (oops! Sorry it's been so long) was that... We are moving to California!!! In about a month now, actually!

This is in now way a permanent move (much to my parents' dismay), as we will only be out there for about a year and a half. We are partnering with a church in Yountville (just 15ish minutes north of Napa) as their sort of missionaries in residence while we dive into this time of full time support raising.

This is not going to be a long detailed post. We are up to our necks right now with selling pretty much all of our belongings, and we have a garage sale happening this weekend that we are getting ready for :-) Please pray that we get everything sold and that God blesses this time of transition for us and paves the way to California these next few weeks!

Yountville Community Church

As far as housing, there happens to be a sweet little apartment inside the church building that we will be able to live in! Ryan will put in some hours helping with worship ministry, and we get a place to live... pretty good trade off!

Anyway, we are super excited and are in awe of how God works these things out! 

Blessings!

R&E

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Danke!

Danke (thank you) to everyone who showed up to our party last Monday night to hear about our Germany internship! It was so much fun for both Ryan and I and just a great experience for us to be able to share our hearts with our loved ones who don't get to see us that often anymore! We truly hope and pray that everyone who came had a great time and were able to feel just how much it meant to us that each and every one of you were there. So thank you again. Here are some of our favorite pics from the night!