April Prayer Update

Dear Prayer Supporters,

A lot has happened since we last updated you in March!  Thank you for all your prayers - they were certainly needed and felt!

Answered Prayers:

- Praise God that we are now just OVER 100% financial and prayer support!  
- Praise God for six encouraging speaking engagements throughout March and April.  We really enjoyed reconnecting with many of you and meeting new friends while we shared our testimony and plans for future ministry in Malawi.  Micah and Rachel fared very well, too!
- Praise God for continued good health for all four of us!  This seems somewhat miraculous because of how busy and demanding our schedule has been.
- Praise God for a smooth transition for Jonathan as he ended working at the bank and came home to many details and preparations (and potty training Micah).  
- Praise God that Jonathan received his ministerial license with the BIC church after passing his oral exam.
- Praise God for the sale of both of our cars and our washer/dryer (worth more than Becky's car)!
- Praise God for a smooth trip to Colorado.  Micah and Rachel both enjoyed the air travel and endured many hours in the car pretty well :)  


Continue to Pray with us:
- Pray for God's continued protection in travel, health and spirit. We are enjoying some down time with family in Colorado right now, but then will enter 5 weeks of training where both kids will be in childcare.  Becky has been feeling especially exhausted after weeks and months of many details, planning and preparations combined with some possible altitude sickness.  Ask God for physical strength/recovery, mental clarity and spiritual energizing and peace.

- Pray for sleep!  Both kids are getting up a lot in the night since we've arrived in Colorado which interrupts our sleep a lot (hourly, at times).  We all need some good, solid sleep (as we hear Rachel crying in the background for the second time this evening, poor girl).

- Pray for each of us as we respond to each transition in our own way.  Micah, in particular, is making sense of "home".  He asks to go home, but has also begun to express that this (Grandparents' house in Colorado) is his home for now because this is where we are right now.  So, he is beginning to catch on that we move a lot.  We have brought some of his familiar/favorite toys and books to help with a sense of "home" and stability.  We'll also be baking our "new house cake" in the coming days here.  Being three years old, though, his confusion and stress tends to come out in the form of tantrums (impressively few, so far).  Pray for us as we discern how to respond to and love him in these times.  

- Pray for continued stability in Malawi following the recent sudden death of their president and the peaceful transition of power to the vice president.  Pray for economic stability as Malawi's government strives to improve relations with foreign governments.

- Pray that God will prepare us for the new relationships we will form when we arrive in Malawi -- students, coworkers, fellow missionaries, friends, and others.