Prayer, please!

So a number of people have been asking how they can be praying for us. Here's what we have been telling them:

1. Praise God for calling us to such an exciting work.

2. Please pray that we would stay on track to meet our initial support goal of 50% by March 15.

3. Please pray that this pre-field time would be a time of encouragement to our friends, family, church and supporters.

4. Pray that we would be further united as husband and wife through the stress and anxiety of life changes and preparations for serving cross-culturally.

5. Pray for Honduras and the people there; pray for our team and all of their exciting ministries; pray the Lord would be working in the hearts of many!

Our Timeline

When Adam and I were engaged, we just wanted to be married.  Engagement was a means to an end.  The time of preparation for the wedding and our marriage was fruitful but we knew engagement wouldn't and shouldn't last forever.  SOOO, we set a date.

Similarly, we are in a time of building our support team but we really just want to be in Honduras.  This was evident the Thursday of our Vision Trip.  Statistics say is takes 22 months on average to raise support. We know this time of building a team will be fruitful but  it too shouldn't last forever. SOOO, we've set a date.  We desire to be in language school by September of this year. Yes, 2012.  8 months from now.

Here's a short timeline:
January to June 2012: Building our support team full time!
June 3-8, 2012: Training in North Carolina (if the funds to go are in our account)
July 1-31, 2012: Cross Cultural Ministry Internship in New York City (must be at 70-85% of our monthly budget)
August 2012: Packing up and having a mad garage sale!!
September 2012: Language school in Costa Rica for 3 trimesters
September 2013: Honduras!

We know this may be an ambitious goal but we know the Lord can do it, if it is His will.