ALMOST THERE!!!

We are $10K away from leaving for Russia! Praise the Lord! Wanted to let you all know that the church we were at this past weekend, New Life Wesleyan in Ohio, decided to support us! They will be making their faith promises as a church at the end of the month, so we will find out in early November how much they will be supporting us! We are so thankful for this church and their hearts for missions! It was a great weekend. The Lord really reminded us again that HE is the one that is going to provide and that HE is faithful! Our home church, Faith Wesleyan in Terre Haute, IN made their faith promise commitments as a church last Sunday. They committed over $164,000 to missions this year! It was a amazing to hear how the Spirit was moving and touching lives through the service and the commitments. We are so excited for November to get here so we can see how far we have come in our fund raising! We have 3 ministry visits scheduled in the next 2 weeks. Please pray for us as we make our 2nd ministry visit to a friend of mine tomorrow evening.

Thank you for your support and prayers!
Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

Missions Conference

We are currently participating in our home church's annual missions conference.

• Last night we did a session with the youth about Russia.
  
• Tonight we will be giving the people of the church a taste and feel of Russia through different kinds of food and information.
  

• On Friday night we will enjoy "Dessert with a Mission". This night is a time set aside for people of the church to gather at someone's house in an informal setting to talk more with us about Russia, our call, and our prayer needs.
  

We are excited to once again participate with Faith Wesleyan in this event! We are sad we are not in Russia, but glad to be here to share with the people about the ministry the Lord has been and will be doing in Russia through the Global Partner missionaries.

On Saturday, we are traveling to northern Ohio for New Life Wesleyan's missions conference. We will spend Sunday morning with them and then head to Granville to be with my family for the week before we head back up to MI for another church! We are on the move, but excited to begin sharing our ministry with individuals along the way!

Thanks for your prayers! We are about $11K away in Faith Promises from leaving for Russia!

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

Michigan

Sunday we will be driving to Union City Wesleyan Church located in Union City, MI! We are excited to be with this church! We will be speaking on Sunday morning encouraging the congregation to join the blessings and rewards that there are in giving to the Lord through missions. Pray for us as this church is a potential supporting church! Pray for the Holy Spirit to work through us during the service.

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

p.s. We are GRADUATING from our KC training tomorrow! Can't wait to share what we learned with you!

Calculating

We are still waiting on 2 more churches to add us to their support, but here we are so far! Remember we also have a $4,000 budget cut so our percentage is even higher than 74%! Praise the Lord! We voiced in our latest email update that we wanted to be 75% by the end of September and here we are the MIDDLE of September and we are there! Yay! Just think what the end of October could bring?!

We are finishing up our class this week on Thursday. Our coaching begins next week as we begin meeting with individuals. We'll be updating you soon! Thanks for your prayers!

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

Coming Along

We are 71% funded! This is as of yesterday, September 3rd. We are still waiting on 3 other churches' faith promises to make their appearance. We have already received verbal commitments, so we are just waiting for the churches to let GP know. Our General Director of Global Partners, Dr. H.C. Wilson has been working hard over the past couple of years to make some positive changes for the missionaries regarding financial matters. We are so thankful for
Dr. H. C. Wilson's leadership and passion for missions! We have a cut in our budget that will bring us down $4,000 per year! We are so excited to have this figured into our budget! That means we are even closer to our 100% financial goal! GP won't have it figured out % wise for awhile since budgets across all missions fields will have to be adjusted, and of course this takes time. But the $4,000 cut from our budget is effective immediately, we just can't see the numbers right now! We'll let you know when we can! So, as you look at that 71% just imagine it being a little higher with the other 3 churches added and $4,000 closer!

Thanks for your prayers as we have just finished our first week of KC training. We are refocusing our minds and hearts to again understand the importance of support raising. I am reminded about God being the source of all our needs. We have Monday off, but will dive right back in on Tuesday!

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

Remembering Life in South Carolina

Russian Language Ministries--the place we learned to speak Russian!
(I have a picture of Philip and I after our oral final in front of this sign, but it turned out pretty sad, so you just get the sign!)

Our dear babysitter, Keziah!

Ron and Nancy who are missionaries to Ukraine

Just wanted to share some memories of language school with you! We enjoyed spending time with Ron and Nancy at language school. They just recently sent us a mug with a picture of our Russian class on it! They are on home ministries right now and are serving with the Baptist Church.
We were very thankful for Keziah, our babysitter! By the last week Adalynn learned to not cry when she heard the door open and saw Keziah walk in. It only took 6 weeks!
We are trying to keep up on our Russian by doing Rosetta Stone, going over our case endings (grammar), and reciting and listening to Russian dialogues!

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn

Prayers Answered

Did you pray for us this weekend because if you did the Lord heard your prayers! Chapel Pike Wesleyan has joined our support team! What a praise and encouragement! We are so excited to have this wonderful church on board with us! Thank you for your prayers! We are encouraged this week as we begin our work with Kingdom Come Training. Again, the person in our home office at Global Partners is out of office until September 1st, so we will have new numbers (percent status!) later this week!

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and Adalynn