After missing several deadlines due to unforeseen circumstances and our membership date being pushed out further than we anticipated, we are so happy to say that as of April 1st, we are members of Wycliffe Bible Translators! (woohoo!)  We are really excited to have the step of membership completed and to be able to begin working on the next phase. We are delighted to have officially been assigned to Papua New Guinea with a potential departure the summer of 2022.

We’re currently working with our PD (partnership development) coach to begin building our Wycliffe ministry prayer and financial team. We will also be working on Wycliffe assignments from now through our Equip training dates. Lord willing, our Equip dates will be scheduled for the next available dates, June 12th – 25th 2021, but we’re currently waiting for those dates to be finalized. As of now, we will be doing the Equip training at Wycliffe headquarters, located in Orlando, Fl, with a possibility of doing the training virtually due to covid limitations.

From June 28th – August 11th we are once again planning to be in Illinois crop dusting for this year’s corn run as Kenneth’s last big job before we start full time with preparing and training for the mission field. We are planning to be in Springfield, (southern) Illinois. We are looking forward to hopefully seeing and getting to spend some time with our friends from IL, even more so with this most likely being our last summer there before we move overseas. We’ll also be having weekly virtual meetings working on our Partnership Development over that time, so we’re expecting our summer to have a very full, but long anticipated schedule.

Our son Benjamin is a healthy and happy four month old bundle of 15lbs. As a friend put it “babies don’t keep” and so we are trying our best to enjoy all of the sweet baby snuggles as much as we can before he gets too big and doesn’t quite enjoy them as much as we do.

As best as we can see our timeline in the future, this is what we expect.

  • Equip training: June 12th-25th, 2021
  • Partnership Development: April 2021 – Dec 2021
  • Intercultural Communications Course in Waxhaw, N.C.: January / February 2022.  (This will help develop our skills and attitudes for living and working effectively in multicultural teams in our Papua New Guinea home-country assignment.)
  • Pre-field Aviation Orientation: Beginning of March 2022 – end of June 2022 (A program in Waxhaw, N.C., designed to equip new maintenance specialists and pilots to function safely and professionally in the field operation to which we are assigned. We will learn to model a corporate operational philosophy, both in maintenance and flight, which can be applied to any aircraft in any operation)

Prayer requests

  • Equip dates would be approved for June 2021.
  • Partnership development would progress smoothly and on schedule.
  • Grace in learning new things.
  • Wisdom for upcoming decisions.