Garage Sale is a Success

Proverbs 16:3

"Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed."

It is so very encouraging to be involved in a process that the Lord is blessing. A garage sale where a person paid $20 for a bottle of water is something to experience. We did not mark any prices, so people would ask what we wanted to get for items. We would ask $5 for something and the person would say, "No that's not enough, I'll give you $10." Now truth be told, there were people that would still try to bargain after we gave them a price, but they were far outnumbered by people that gave more than what we were thinking. We had so many friends bring us items to sell that 2/3 of the stuff was not ours. We also had help from the Lindows, McKims, & Leerssens with set up, selling, & clean up. Over $1600 in a single day garage sale is quite a blessing. Praise the Lord!

Fingerprint Fiasco or Another Blessing?

You may have heard that Paul's fingerprints went miraculously. Well, Jeanette's didn't. She had to have them done three times. The good news is that, while the first two rounds took about a month each time, this third round only took one week. Now the next cool thing we heard was that the courts in Ethiopia might stay open this year. (Normally they shut down for two months every year.) If this is true, we're back on the fast track again. I never saw myself praying for the Ethiopian court system before!