Thursday, November 27, 2008

SOS Canada news

We are really excited to see God's provision unfold during this whole transition and journey to live in Czech. A couple updates...

When we began to see how God was leading us to move to Czech, one concern was the yearly hockey trips that we have led to Hlinsko, and our inability to organize and lead them if we were not living in Canada. From the beginning, God had prepared someone to take over the trips. Dan and Faith Grace have taken over the role of Director of SOS Canada! This is exciting for us because the Graces' have a big heart for ministry in Hlinsko and we know that we are leaving things in better hands than before! We look forward to seeing how God uses them in SOS Canada and also look forward to ministering with them in Czech every February!

Another concern has been the length of time that SOS Canada has waited to receive tax-exemption status. Obviously this affects us being able to offer tax receipts to our supporters. Please continue to pray as we have reason to believe that our status may be approved in the next three weeks! This is nothing short of miraculous timing on God's part...and has been quite the faith journey for us as well. It is interesting because many times we felt as though we were supposed to wait, just wait and not really begin support raising. Just a couple weeks ago we felt God prompt us to begin...and soon after we received this news! We will continue to pray, and ask that you do as well. But after three years of trying to get this status, and being denied many times, we, Lord willing, will finally be able to offer tax receipts to supporters!


We are heading to Pennsylvania to spend Thanksgiving weekend with my (Rachael) family. This will most likely be the last time we are able to get to PA before our move to Czech. Well, I better get packing!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Praise God about that tax exemption status thing! Woohoo!

And, happy day about Dan and Faith being Directors of SOS Canada. I know they're going to do a super-duper job. :)

God bless you all for your passion and heart for Czech people and sharing the Gospel with them!

Anonymous said...

What an exciting journey we're all going on!