Heading Back Home

Hello everyone we are leaving Williston on the 2nd of August. We fly out of Minneapolis on the 6th of August. We are so excited to be home. We will start to write regularly again when we are back in Mexico. We have a busy time when we get back. Our niece is coming back with us for a week so we have many differnet jobs we will be doing. Thanks for the the people that have helped make this possible for us. We appreciate the finacinal support that people have given to us. We are so thankful. Many blessings to you all. Amanda

Busy Time

Hello everyone, as you know we are back in Williston using our time to connect with friends and supporters!! This time has been awesome, however we had a suprise oppertunity offered too us two weeks ago and we sorta had to put our fundraising time on hold. Mandy and I had an older enclosed trailer sitting out in the trees at her parents house for the last couple years. We had put some storage stuff in there that we were not ready too get rid of until we knew for sure what was going to happen in Mexico. Well, now that we know we are going to be staying in Latin America for a while we decided that we needed to get rid of our stuff. We sold everything that we had around here in North Dakota, but we still had this little trailer left over. We could have sold it as well, but we had a vision of the trailer full of clothes. We wanted to somehow get the thing to Mexico to help those in need down there. Well, we were visiting with some firends and they told us that they would be willing to take it to Texas for us!! New Hope Church paid for the gas to get them there, and we have some friends that are willing to hold it for us until we get the authorization from Mexico to bring it in!! This is a huge answer to prayer because we did not have a vehicle to take it down, nor did we have the time or money!! This was a huge answer to prayer. At that time we could see that God was starting to bring all this together. The only thing that we had now was that they said they were leaving in 2 weeks and we needed the trailer ready to go! So I was able to get ahold of our friends in Mexico and talk with them about bringing it in. They talked to the appropriate legal team and they assured us that it would be possible to get it in, but there was certain criteria that we had to follow. This was no problem, just alot of work. At this point, time was certainly working against us. Well, to make a long story short we were able to put the news in the New Hope Church bulletin, and in the local paper. The resonce from the people was overwealming!!! It was great to see people coming out with cloths, shoes, blankets, baby items, baby cloth's, lots and lots of everything!! I want to say thank you too all of you that made this possible!!! Well, to make a long story short, we took donations through last thursday, and we spent everyday last week sorting, and seperating the supplies. Womens cloth's in one pile, men's cloth's in another, and baby here , young mens there, and so on, and so on. Finally with the help of the kids from Eckert we were able to get it all packed, labeled and weighed!! We have over 2000 LBS of clothing for those in need!! We dropped it off last thursday night, and it headed for Texas frieday morning. We got word last night that it reached its destination in Alamo Texas last night!! Thank you Sonny and Doretta for doing us, and the people of Mexico, a HUGE FAVOR!!! Now we are just doing all the legal work to get it into the country. We are flying back out of Minneapolis in about 2 weeks. From Mexico we are able to connect with the local church and drive up to Texas to get the stuff and pull it in. God is soo good and we are able to further the spreading of the gospel because of those of you that are helping us, with food, clothing, finances, and resourses!! This really puts us in a unique position now being able to help with the physical needs as well as the spiritual!! We will keep you posted with more info as this project progress's. We have posted photos of the trailer and us working at our flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rossandmandy/ . Thank you again too all of you that made this possible through your gifts and resources.
We are also still fundraising, and we want to say a special thank you to those of you that have partnered with us. The last couple weeks we have not had alot of time to spend with all of you because of this trailer project. We have given the fundraising over to God and told Him that it is He needs to provide for us, because we are not able. We are limited in our time that we have to see each and every one of you. I know that all of you that are willing to stand along side of us while we go and do, and just as much responcible for the spreading of the gospel than we are. Without you none of this would be possible and we thank you. When I spend my time in prayer each day I ask that God pour out his blessing on you for the sacrifices, and selfless giving that each of you take part in, for us. Each time we sit down at the table together, or drive into a village with a car load of cloth's, I thank God that you were willing to give to us, for Him!!
God bless you all, and we will write more soon.

Hello from North Dakota

Hi everyone, before I get started we would like to apologies for not writing lately. We have had a whirlwind month. We are still home meeting with churches, supporters and hopefully new supporters. We are still not at our budget but God is good and we are looking forward to returning back to work soon. It has been wonderful to see parents and family. It is great to be able to go walk up to your loved ones and give them a kiss anytime you feel like it. We appreciate all they do for us. Thankfully the Internet is available and we are still able to communicate so easily. This has been such a blessings for those lonely days. This has also been a blessings to be able to communicate with our brothers and sisters back in Mexico. We will not be writing as often while we are home, unfortunately there are not enough hours in a day to accomplish everything. But we will try to communicate more often. We leave Williston the first of August. We will make a couple more stops before we get back on the plane to fly us home. Our niece Shaylee will be coming back with us for two weeks. We are so excited to show her our home and our new friends. We will write again before we leave. Many blessings Amanda