Our journey begins...

At the beginning of this year, God began to show Tina and I the need to 'expand our borders' and reach out to areas in need in the world.
After much prayer, and a leap of faith, we are continuing to follow God's direction and go with a missions team to South Africa for a little over two weeks.
We are leaving our two boys, Greyson and Parker in the capable hands of our parents and siblings.
Leaving the boys for over two weeks will be very difficult, so this situation alone we will need much prayer about it.
We are going to South Africa to minister to and work with the people and tribes there under the direction of Umbono and a local missionary there Nick Vaughan-Jones.
We will be visiting a hospital there ministering and prayering with the many children who are affected with HIV/AIDS. We will be showing the Jesus film in villages and sharing our testimony with tribes there.
We will be doing some light construction work, painting, and repair work on some of the homes and churches there.
We will be following up with our schedule, fund-raisers and various other interest to share with you. We look forward sharing this adventure with you!

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Our first 'fund-raiser' was in the form of a yard-sale that we had set up our house sometime back and decided this was a good opportunity to raise money.
Tina's parents donated items to sale, as did my brother and mom. My mom was also gracious enough to donate her cooking talents to allow us to sale biscuits, cookies and muffins.