Weiling and I just completed our phone interview with Tim, Training coordinator for Team Expansion. Our completed application now moves to the review committee and we hope to have a response to the affirmative by the end of January. Once we're approved, then we will attend a week-long LAUNCH session in Louisville, KY this spring. Aside from raising the necessary support, the final step in the process is to attend a 3-week session in Colorado Springs with our kids where we'll be educated on the finer points of mission life. The cost of that is $6,290 + airfare, so we are petitioning God to provide and to ensure that we'll have a spot reserved for us. Summer tends to book early. Please pray for these next few steps to go smoothly and that obstacles are avoided.

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We made our first presentation to our church's mission committee tonight. It was great to finally be able to share with everyone the reason we have our sites set on Japan and the course of action we intend to take. The slideshow contained three Scripture verses, photos from CPI and pictures of the missionaries we met while in Japan. We started off with some general stats on the Japanese people and areas we intend to focus our efforts. There were several questions asked at the end of the 20 minute presentation which we were happy to answer. The next step is to fill out a support request form and ask them to prayerfully consider helping finance this new mission.

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