We made it to Maine without any problems. We stopped and reported to a supporting church in NY on the way. This Sunday we're in northeastern Maine up near the border with New Brunswick.

We got done almost everything we needed to finish before we left Grand Rapids. This was an amazing act of God because 8 days before we were to leave the BI network went down. It was just before Dan Dennison came for 24 hours to help plan the long-term network architecture (design). He was a fantastic help, but with parts that had to be order and other issues it took
a week for Birch and James Wittenberger (the IT guy at BI) to get it back up and running again. But he finished Thursday morning so he planned to have all day Friday to finish his projects and pack before we left Saturday morning. Friday morning he got a call from the office, the network was down again! It took them into the afternoon to figure out what the problem was and get things working again. Pray for Dan & his wife Adrienne. They want to come with BI, Dan to manage the network and do other computer related things, and Adrienne to do linguistics. Pray for God's timing and financing. They would be a tremendous help and we really enjoy working with them.

We have another big prayer request. For the first time we have a young man coming with us as a shorter termer. It would work much better if there was another man to come with us so he didn't have to room and travel "alone" and to have someone to share with and discuss all that they are seeing and doing. This is a huge commitment - two months and $4-5,000. The young man who is coming with us has delayed going to college by a semester so that he can come. Pray that God leads someone to join us who can be a blessing and be blessed by this trip.