Grill

Jeremy & Lara,

Do you know if there is a grill at the B & B and if it is gas or charcoal???

Booked our Flight!

Hey Team,
Just wanted to let you all know that I just finished booking the flight for Hayden, Keaton & I to leave our life in the south and start our new adventure in the Northeast! We are flying from DFW to Baltimore on May 17 at 7:55 a.m.....I can officially start my minute by minute count down! :) Okay, maybe just by the hour for a couple more months! Yahooooo!
Lara

SO BIG!

Parker lost his first tooth!

PRAY!

This is bigger than us...no doubt about it. If it succeeds God will have to get the credit. Plus, he gets to define success. Pray for:

• The spiritual development and preparation of each team member
• Open doors to begin developing in SC right now.
• Jobs for all.
• Housing for all.
• Peaceful trust that God will provide jobs and housing for all.
• Name, logo, webpage development
• Our faithfulness to our current assignments...Stay focused! Jesus could return before we even get there.
• The retreat coming up.
• Open, honest, commtted, family relationship among all on the team
• For me to be an assertive and sensitive leader.
• Two additional families and one single man who are praying seriously about going with us.
• Jeremy's fear of bears.
• Jeremy's fear of the cold. (not the colts)
• Jeremy's fear of Lara if he says too much about the bears or the cold.

What else? Add to the list...

Number 7 is on the way!

Our quiver is full and we are grateful!

Ice Angel in Texas

It is definately time to move North!

Market Days!

Well, we did it! Our realtor came over today and we will put our house on the market mid-March. We will be painting, decluttering, and replacing our carpet. I think we should have a party and give everyone a paint brush when they come through the door :)
Richard will be gone quite a bit over the next month when so much needs to be done so please pray that we can get the necessary work completed.

IT IS FINISHED!

Well, at least the first draft. No, I am not quoting Jesus here, I am celebrating the completion of the first draft of the book I have been working on since last May! Wooohoooo! What an amazing process. What an education I got doing it. It was like taking about three college level courses. Surely the hard part is behind me. (he said naivly)

But, here is the deal: it may not even be print worthy. We will see. If not, it will have been a great ride, and I am thankful for it. If so, well, I have about three more ideas cooking.

Pray for me on this...I have no idea if I can write well...but I know I can finish a book.

It is editing time.
vic

The Barbarian Shipps

The most radical demonstration of faith is to be obedient to the next thing God tells you to do.

One of the beautiful things about following God is that it is simple. We don't have all the answers to satisfy the world's questions, but we have the answers we need for this moment. We don't have the strength we need for the future, but He has supplied the power for right now.

I honor you, Jeremy and Lara, for being obedient. God said, "stay home this weekend," I don't know why and you don't know why, though by the end of the weekend you may know. There may be revealed a very dramatic reason why...or maybe not. Either way, you were obedient. You waited and listened and obeyed, regardless of what you wanted. You could have found a way...stretched yourself...taken the matter into your own hands, but you trusted God by faith. It was no small thing. If everyone did what you did, every time, you would not live in Abilene, but in Eden.

Was it hard for you to make this choice...maybe. But it was not complicated or difficult to figure out. It was simple. And it was barbaric.

Beyond your gifts and abilities...this is why you are a part of this adventure.

As the Waters cover the Sea

God spoke through Habakkuk the summary message of scripture...and our purpose for moving to State College: "For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord." That may sound a bit religious to you, but it is, in truth, what we are about. I believe this move to be strategic in positioning us to contribute effectively to the cause of this verse. May we be alert to the movement of the Spirit as he uses us toward this glory.

It is a crisp 23 degrees in SC this morning. It is finally acting like winter...a good thing, I believe. Ask me in 5 years if I still believe that. As I expected, now that we are on this side of the new year, the slide is down hill to the time to move. Things are starting to accelerate. Buckle up, it is going to be an exciting ride.

Be praying about the retreat Feb. 2-3. The lodge and barn are all set. I talked to Ruben, the owner last night. Pray for him...on Jan 16 he goes in for surgery. They will take a bone from his hip and put it in his foot. (that would make for some interesting annalogies.) Pretty major. Ruben respects our team and has been amazingly generous to us.

God has chosen you for this mission. (and maybe some others that are praying about it) May we never forget it.

vic

Change to New Version

Hey Everyone,
You may have noticed that when you sign in to your username to post a blog it asks if you would like to switch to the new version of Google Blog - you will each need to do this. I have switched our Blog to this new version and it said that you won't be able to post to Mission Imprint unless you switch also. It is quick and easy. Go for it! See you on the other side. :)
Lara

Details

I am amazed at the way that the Lord cares about the details of our lives. Here is my precious boy all sick with the flu on his new UNICYCLE! He was so excited. A thousand thanks to the Baums...the Lord definately used you. I pray that this is a lesson with last with him forever.

Prayers for my Mom

Hello everyone - I am writing to ask for your prayers for my mom. She has had some pain for sometime in her abdomen and last night she went to the hospital and the doctors are running some tests and are talking of surgery. I will let you know more information as I do. Thank you, Jeremy