July 10th through August 8th we were based in Sterling, Illinois area for Kenneth’s work. He was spraying corn and soy beans for the business he works for in Florida. Most of the aerial application was in northern Illinois and around Arthur, Illinois area and southern Wisconsin. It was a busy and exhausting time. The days were long, typically 5:30am to 11:30pm. Meghan helped us out with the meals, laundry and odd and ends that needed to be done. We are very thankful to the Heavenly Father for the safety he granted us during the long fatiguing days of the “corn run season”.



This last week we spent time off from work recuperating and relaxing. We spent most of the week with the Gingerich family RV glamping on a lake in Seneca, South Carolina.

This next month, September 14th thorough 26th, Meghan and I are planning to be in Waxhaw, NC to do our technical evaluation with JAARS. The evaluation is a two week process where my aircraft mechanic and pilot skills will be evaluated and where it will be determined on whether or not we will be a good fit for the mission organization. Several months ago we completed the application and got our response from the organization that we were “a fit on paper”.

With Covid-19 schedules and uncertainties that have come with it, we are not sure how the JAARS field training and preparations will progress. We are praying that the JAARS and Wycliffe training schedules, that we need to accomplish from September though end of June 2021, will progress as usual and not be cancelled or postponed. If all this would go “according to our desires, we would be ready to go overseas summer of 2021. If all this, and the prayer and financial support raising we need to raise by beginning of January does not happen, we will not be able to complete an “only once a year pre-field orientation” that happens beginning of March through end of June. Which would then push us back to the following year, summer of 2022 to be ready to go overseas. Please pray with us that God would allow us to be ready to go overseas by summer of 2021. Although this is our desire, we want to be in the Lord’s will and continually commit our lives to the Lord and His timing.

We have some really exciting news! Lord willing, mid December we will have our first child to nourish and care for!