Aaaaaannnd....OFF We Go!

Well it's been a pretty productive week.  We've scheduled a few meetings and made quite a few contacts to follow up on next week.  Our little break did us well.  We needed some extra time to make a new display, new prayer cards, and "visit" our home church.

Our support this last month was really good.  We picked up one more church!  Our total support is almost 65% now, and there shouldn't be much excuse for it to not be closer to about 80% by 2011.  We are still waiting on 2 churches that have promised to start sending too.  We are very excited about how God is providing.

But we're back on the road tomorrow!  We're headed off to South Carolina tomorrow, and from there to Knoxville for a couple days, enroute to a missions conference in Indiana.  Then, to a missions conference back down in Mississippi.  From there, it's up north to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, back in Indiana, then back to Ohio, and finally back south to Georgia for a meeting on the 13th of October.  We may or may not stop by our hosts in Alabama around then, but either yes or no we'll need to head to LA (Lower Alabama) for a missions conference on the 16th, finishing there on the 17th, and driving overnight to get to another missions conference in Miami, FL starting on the 18th.  After Miami, we have several meetings in Florida, and then WHAM.  NOTHING after October 31st until November 28th.

Yep, that's a bunch of missions conferences to look forward to.  A total of 6, with a couple meetings which are part of a "Missions Emphasis" month (a total of 2).  It would be so great if each of these churches took us on for support.  We are praying for 19 more, that average $50 apiece.

So, it's a two month trip, with a geographical range from Chicago, IL to LA (again, Lower Alabama), down/over to Miami, FL to the top right of the trip in Cleveland, OH.  To drive a big circle between the 4 corners would be about 3,500 miles, but we're going back and forth quite between states, so it will probably be closer to 6,500 by the time we finish after nearly 2 months of traveling.

I put new tires on the van today to prepare.  I forgot I needed an oil change, but it can wait until Knoxville.  I need to meet with Pastor Allison tomorrow morning, pick up some dry-cleaning, load up the van and we'll hopefully be on the road right after lunch.  We're in no hurry, but there's a great Mexican restaurant we HAVE to go to when we get to where we're going tomorrow evening.

Happy trails to us!