New Life !!

I have the privileged to announce to the world that last week our girl Erin prayed to accept Christ in her heart. She has been contemplating this for several weeks. We talked about it several times and she said she wasn't ready. After hearing several question she voiced, I realized that her fear was that she was going to have to get up in front of the church and speak to be baptized after she prayed to accepted Christ. I assured her that she would need to be baptized but the most importantly at this time she needed to pray. She was OK with that and wanted to pray, so I had the privilege to lead her in the prayer.

How much more??

While in my office, Erin comes in and says "Dad, How much more do we need?" I told her that we were now at 89% and only needed 11% more. We are close! She said "when we get it all can we stay here just a little bit longer, maybe another week?". With us getting close to 100% she thought we would be leaving quickly after the funding was there. So I turned to her to focus my attention and to explain to her how this will work. Once our support team is together and our funds are committed we have to wait for the Jamaican government to grant us our work permit(could take 6-8 weeks or more). After we receive the paper work for the work permit then we will make a trip to the Jamaican embassy in Houston and get the rest of our families visa. We will make the 4 hour trip to acquire the visas instead of mailing them and it taking 2-3 weeks. Then she says "we need to pack everything up too!" I said yes we have to pack everything to move too. She says "can we start packing now??"
What a blessing it is to have children that are excited about our move, as parents we know it is hard for them to think about leaving but are excited about the change in our lives.