(Ministry E-mail Update sent out Friday)
Preparing to Leave… three simple words that entail a lot!
We are preparing to leave the Carolinas on March 1st! Wow… that is coming so quickly. Both a very exciting and sad day that will be! Our last Sunday at church will be February 27th. Our last time at BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) will be the Monday (Dano) & Tuesday (Melinda) before that (Feb 21 & 22). The kids and I also hope to make it to MOPS on the 25th! Please pray that we say goodbye well!
We are also preparing to leave the states for Southeast Asia! We hope to leave by April 10th, but we won’t know the exact date until we get our visas! Then once we have our visas, we should be able to purchase our tickets! Please pray for God’s perfect timing in both these areas. Please pray that our visas would be approved without a hitch.
Through you, God has provided what we think we’ll need to pay for our visas! Thank you! We are still in need of gifts to help purchase our tickets. We don’t know the exact amount of either of these items, but we do have estimates. Please pray God will provide exactly what we need. Thank you so much to all of you who give so faithfully every month. Your faithful monthly gifts are what help us serve day in and day out. Your faithful monthly gifts are what will KEEP us on the field! THANK YOU!!
You may wonder where we will be during the month of March… or maybe you already know! We will be moving to TN to have some quality time with our family before leaving for 3 years. (Praise the Lord for FBC Hendersonville for letting us stay in their mission house again!) Three of our kiddos will have birthdays while we are there so we’ll have ample “party time.” A friend Dano graduated with is hosting a “Goodbye Dinner” for us which will also be a fundraising dinner. If you are in the area, it will be in Springfield on Friday, March 18th 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. You can RSVP on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=167384173305150&ref=ts or you can e-mail me, and I will get you Keith’s info. The dinner will be held at Bethlehem Baptist Church on Hwy 76 and Bethlehem Rd. Everyone is welcome! It will be a very casual & informal time of visiting. We hope to see you there!! Please pray that God would be glorified during this dinner and during our month with family. Please pray that wonderful memories will be made for us, our children, and our family.
Thank you for your continued prayers for our family! Please keep our health in your prayers. We are just about finished with our immunizations! Dano will be traveling Thursday (yesterday) and Friday (today)… please pray for his safety. (He got home safe & sound!) Please pray as we finish getting rid of things… that things that need to sell, sell… and things that we’re giving away would be a blessing to the right people. Please pray that we’d not neglect anything we need to take care of before heading overseas. Above all… please pray for peace and calmness in our family as we are in the midst of so many changes and that our lives would be a testimony for HIS GLORY!
Thank you for your prayers for Emma… for a detailed report, you can visit our blog (Feb 2, 2011 post). She’s still somewhat recovering due to getting a cold shortly after her surgery. Also, she’s started having headaches since her surgery. =0( Please pray for her headaches to stop.
Please let us know how we can pray for you!
Blessings to you,
Melinda for the crew
Dano, Melinda, Olivia, Derek, Emma, Wesley, & Virginia Whited
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HOW TO GIVE:
Send in a check made payable to Wycliffe Bible Translators to:
Wycliffe Bible Translators
P.O. Box 628200
Orlando, FL 32862-8200
please include a separate note designating it for Dano & Melinda Whited Account # 215422
(gifts with this designation that are not our normal monthly gifts will go toward our airfare costs)
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