Down the road

Home in Geneva, IL.

Well, this is quite a bit down the road from the first post. Time-wise as well as literally (about 2000 miles).

We are now in Magdalena, Mexico! We praise God for a great trip down. Thank you all for your prayers. Kaleigh was awesome. She slept most of the time and was very cooperative when we made her endure the torture of the car seat for a few very long days.

We left Geneva at 9:30 pm Monday night and headed west. Kaleigh slept soundly until after 5am! We were very thankful about that. We continued to Denver, where we stayed the night.

Here is our first feeding stop at a McDonald's...they both look pretty alert for 5am.

Wednesday we drove through the mountains and down through Utah. It was a nice change in scenery from the corn and beans of Iowa and Nebraska. We stopped in Flagstaff for the night before passing through the "Red Rock country" of Sedona. We made it across the border into Mexico by dinner time.

She did get a little bit ticked at times, after the long day in the car...look at that face!

Friday I headed back to Nogales AZ to unload the semi that Joe and Denise Maller drove down. It was loaded with our things, some food from the Bloomington food bank, a seed drill, health/layette kits etc. We dropped off the food and kits at the food bank and took our things to a storage shed in town. We cannot cross it all at once, so it will be bit by bit. Pray that it all goes without problems!

We were able to cross the majority of our clothes and some other neccesities (aka baby things!) on Friday.

It is great to be back, and we are very grateful for the prayers we feel everyday. We'll keep the post coming as often as possible.

In case you are wondering, the house is not ready and we are living with Bill and Joan Schick for a little while. We have painting and door hanging and some trim work to do...plus there is no toilet, sink or showerhead in our bathroom. There is a group of local men working on the tile in the rest of the house......pics to come later.

Kaleigh is a huge hit with the kids...the girls are always asking to carry her. She is worn out by the end of the day.

Hopefully we will keep the updates frequent, though things are a little hectic right now, living out of a suitcase and running between campus and Bill and Joan's house.(it's a few miles.)

More to come, but at least this is a start!

A new step....

Well, this is a first for me in many ways. My first move to Mexico (married and with a daughter), my first blog, and my first post on the blog.

If you found this post, Emily and I desperately need your prayers as we look forward to moving to Mexico July 22nd.

We will be moving to CVE and living in the new group home with some of the kids. I have created this blog to update those who want to know what's going on, and are willing to lift up this work to our Lord in prayer.

We are thankful to be called to go, but we know we can do nothing without God's grace and strength. I hope that through this blog, we can communicate with you the joys and struggles we will face, and you can encourage us and be encouraged as the updates come.

Please pray for-

*Safety and success as we move
*Grace to adjust to living at CVE
*Language skills
*Wisdom for the many decisions
*God's Blessing on the mission of CVE, Magdalena.


Please bear with me as I learn how to do posts, etc. I am very new to this.