Tampa Bay Rays

This has become our new name here while visiting my cousin in Florida!  Actually we are working on building our team as well as spending time with my cousin.  Their church put in the bulletin that the Rays were coming to visit and needless to say a few got a little too excited!  This is Travs and my first time in Florida (the girls are at home in school) and it has been enjoyable other than the humidity, the alligator and little lizards I've seen. ha!  Thanks to all of you who have been praying as we continue to raise our support team, we have had many opportunities to share here and are really encouraged by what God is doing.  I wanted to mention that last Friday Travis and I packed all our belongings in a 16' horse trailer and drove it all the way down to Mansfield MO to have it shipped with FIA (Friends In Action).  Let me tell you after many hectic months of making the purchases that were needed for Papua New Guinea, there was a sigh of relief as it was finally crated up.  God has been growing us through this whole process and usually it comes with trusting Him with the unseen.  We knew our stuff needed to be to MO in Sept. and it was going to cost around $4,500 but we only had around $1050.  I started to think; well maybe we should just wait until the next shipment in Jan. but Travis encouraged me that we should move forward, so we did.  A few days before we were to leave, we had 3 separate checks come in that totalled the amount we needed to ship!  God continues to teach me that I need to Trust Him in the unseen, that this will all come together in His timing and therefore I need to rest in Him.  This is not easy for me (Nikki) as I like to have a general idea as to what to expect.  Thanks to all of you who continue to support us with finances and prayers we really could not do this without your support!