Departure date is set

Hey everyone,
Today we bought our airplane tickets to fly to Latvia on May 9 at 1:55pm. The trip is with LOT Polish airlines from San Francisco to Chicago to Warsaw to Riga. Time in the air is 18 hours. It ended up costing about 800 per adult and 600 per child.

Also today, we started packing our bags to move out of our house. Some generous friends are letting us stay in their furnished condo in Salinas for the next 2 weeks so that we can clear out all our possessions. We will be posting items for sale on www.monterey.craigslist.org

Also on the schedule...

• April 26 - Should receive the last of our documents needed to apply for visas.
• April 28 - 8:00 - Brenten leading worship and devotion at CCMB men's prayer meeting
• April 28 - 10:00 Garage Sale at our house in Marina
• May 2 - Date to be totally out of the house and get deposit back
• May 4 - Latvian Independence day (national holiday)
• May 5 - Our official "send off" from CCMB's church picnic at Toro park
• May 6 - Our last Sunday service at CCMB
• May 7 - Our last Monthly Missions prayer meeting at the Giles house in Marina.
• May 9 - 10 - Flying to Latvia

Please keep us in your prayers. There has been many bureaucratic delays to get our visas but the Lord never late. If we don't have time to get our visas, we can still move to Latvia ad then apply from there but that is our plan B - the Lord's will be done. We believe that Jesus is sending us out at this time with His authority to reach many Latvians and Russians with His word. "All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me, therefore GO" (Matthew 28)