If Stress = Lack of Trust, Discouragement = ?

Hello Everyone!

It's been a while since we've posted on here (a month exactly actually).

It's been a long couple months. As many of you know we had a support raising trip to WI at the end of October and were really excited that we're getting everything together and really starting to hit the ground running as far as support raising goes. Really, at that point, nothing could stop us.

Now, fast forward a month ahead - you're looking at two tired, hopeless, discouraged people. One our our main goals with this blog is to really share the ups and downs of our entire process (from support raising, to getting started in France, to leaving). Well, we're in a down.

As much as we've worked these past 6 months, we've barely seen a 5% budge in our numbers - and while we're thankful for that, we have a really long ways to go in a relatively short amount of time.

We are at about 87% of our one-time expenses (including plane tickets, training, ect.) and at 11.33% of our monthly expenses (the $5,500 we need to raise each month). If we're still looking at leaving in August (our projected leave date) we need to raise at least 9% each month (that's about $500/month pledged for the two years we're there).

It's been hard to keep going when we haven't seen any progress - I've found that we haven't been updating the blog, emailing out prayer request, or really talking to others about it at all, which really just makes the problem worse -

So - I would like to cry out to you! Please pray for us!!!! Here are something that we're really just struggling with right now:

Pray for passion for the work we believe God has called us to.
Pray for surrender of all of this to God, through which everything happens.
Pray for peace about God's time line, not ours.
Pray for contentment, that we would continue strong in our ministries here.
Pray for preparation and that we would be continually growing closer to the Lord.
Pray for provision - that God would bring the right people to partner with us at the right time.

Thanks so much - we really appreciate your prayers and support!