May 21, 2007 Enroute to the Philippines Today

Today we leave for the Philippines. We are anxious to be on our way. We are not sure what the future will hold for us but we entrust that into His care. Thanks to all who have been praying for us.

We will arrive in Manila at about 11:00 PM Tuesday after traveling for about 20 hours. The temperatures in Manila have been in the mid to upper 90s these last days with the heat index around 105-110. So there will be quite an adjustment for us.

We pray that we will be able to move into our apartment before the end of the week. It will be nice to have a place to call home again.

We plan to take up language study to brush up on our Tagalog those first months, before we take up the challenge of a new language. Be praying that the Lord would guide and direct us and that we would be sensitive to that direction, lest we run ahead of Him or lag behind.

We do covet your prayers. “Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise be glory and honor for ever and ever Amen”

We will write again from Manila once we are able to get “hooked up”, to let you know we arrived safe and sound.