Dear Friends and Family,

Sylvia and I hope you all had a good Easter remembering oneof the cornerstones of our faith.  Theresurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ is another confirmation of ourfaith.  With Jesus defeating Death we allmust continue to stand strong in the good times and in the bad or hard times aswe are tested and molded in preparation for eternal life with Him.  Be encouraged because He continually coversus with grace and gives us that strength to carry on.  Sylvia and I continually see it in our lives.

As many of you know, we have trusted the Lord with our housesituation down in South Carolina.  Due toour tenant moving out, the current housing market situation and not being ableto sell the home,  we have been prayingabout whether or not the Lord wants us to move back down to SouthCarolina.   Many of you have been prayingwith us in this regard and we are so grateful for your prayers.  Over the past two weeks the Lord seems to be guiding us to make the move to SouthCarolina through putting this on both our hearts and by opening a lot of doorsdown there.  This move comes at adifficult time for us.  We have 2 supportraising trips coming up as well as plans to go to Spain for a month this summerto help meet some of the urgent staff needs by directing two of the L’Arcada trainingprograms.  The stress and financialburden of a move at this time pushes our faith to a new limit as the Lord worksin our lives to help us learn to trust Him more. 

Sylvia and I have been extremely blessed by TrinityFellowship Church up in MI as well as Spring Hill Camps over the last two years.  They have been an enormous spiritual andemotional encouragement for us as we have been raising support and have reallycome alongside us to offer counsel, friendship and care.  Our little daughter Shania came into theworld up here also and we have made many friends during this time. Even thoughwe have a lot of friends and family in SC it will be hard to leave.  However, when Sylvia and I got married wevowed to have Christ at the center of our relationship.  Following His will needs to be a priority inour lives and we strongly feel he is leading us down to SC.    We have prayed a lot over this and we havetalked to a lot of different people, trying to budget and plan for this move overthe past few days.  We are looking atmoving mid-May after completing the previously planned trip to Illinois.  

Below are some praises and prayers we would like to sharewith you.  Thanks so much for your prayerand/or financial support.  We could notdo this without such a neat team of people. It is a blessing to be surrounded and supported in prayer.   Let us know how we can be a blessing to youby sharing with us how we can lift you up in prayer.   Give us a chance to bless you also. 

Praises

·        Jesus Conquered death on the cross!!  What a blessing and what an amazing God wehave.  We must continually remember togive Him the glory for everything.

·        We want to thank the Lord for making this moveclear and giving us peace in the process

·        My parents passed through for a week and we hada good time together as they enjoyed spending a little time time with their granddaughterand us. 

·        One of the obstacles of moving down to SC was thelack of a car since we sold our car when we moved up to Michigan. The car weare using now is being lent to us by Trinity Fellowship, who has said that ifwe moved down to SC we could keep the car. We are so grateful to the Lord and Trinity for this as it is one of themany doors the Lord has opened in the process of decision-making regarding themove.

Prayers

·        Please pray for us as we make this move. We trust the Lord for finances in two major areas:

·        1) Moving truck costs and 2) Tickets for our one-monthsummer trip to Spain to help out in the ministry.  Pray that the Lord would provide as He alwaysdoes when we follow Him.  If you wouldlike to help with these needs, please click here to go to our support page and learn how.  If you have any questions let us know via email or phone. Thanks so much

·        Pray for Shania as she is having a hard timesleeping at night. We think it is because she is teething but as many of youparents know it makes days harder when you are tired.