We're Leaving for Austria!

We praise God as He has provided for our every need! In a little over two weeks, we've gone from needing $1500 per month to being able to book our tickets for Austria. He is truly amazing. Your prayers have been heard. The tickets are bought and we will leave from Los Angeles on February 4th and arrive in Austria on February 5th. We will spend a month at the Oasis, then three months at language school in Germany, and then be back at the Oasis to start the ministry. Please continue to keep us in your prayers as we transition to Austria. The home page of our website will list our prayer requests and praises. There you can also view our newsletters, pictures, and videos. We will continue to keep you up to date on our blog as well. God Bless!

Praising God for All He Does

Hello again to our amazing support team!

We have gotten the approval from IT to purchase our tickets when we have 90% of our support pledged. To date we have 85% of our support. If we can raise the last 5% by January 28th, we will be able to leave for Austria toward the beginning of February. If we do not have 90% by the end of the month, we will apply for our resident's permit in the U.S. This is an alternative that we would like to avoid as we would potentially have to wait up to a year within the U.S. to receive this permit. To reach our goal, we need $495 more per month (between monthly pledges and occasional gifts) by January 28th.

We ask you to please join us in praying that we will receive pledges for the $495 monthly we need to leave for Austria. We know that this is not impossible with God and have seen how He has provided in amazing ways thus far. Since our last e-mail, we have seen our support level rise 9%. We praise God for all He has done. Please pray that we would know God's timing… whether it is to leave by the beginning of February or later in the year. Also, pray that we will trust God wholeheartedly in the decisions we need to make and not try to rely on our own plans. We thank each of you for joining us in prayer, we are strengthened and encouraged by your prayers and we know that without prayer none of this would be possible. We will keep you updated and we can't wait to be sending you our itinerary for our departure.

With lots of love,
Dan and Regan

A Time Sensitive Prayer Request

Hello to our amazing support team!

We just wanted to write a quick email to ask you to join us in prayer. You may know that we are trying to leave for Austria by the end of January. The reasoning behind this intended departure date has to do mostly with applying for our resident's visas. This process has changed a lot in the last couple of years, and how it works currently is that the Austrian government starts fresh with applications each January, throwing out the applications from the previous year. Also, they only give out a certain number of visas per region. When we were in Austria at the end of August, we discussed what to do with our team leaders and they felt that we should try to get to Austria by January and apply for them there. That way, while we waited the eight or so months to receive our visa, we could be going to language school and beginning our ministry at the Oasis. Our Plan B was that if we were not financially ready to leave in January, we would apply at the Austrian consulate in Los Angeles. The problem with Plan B is that we would then have to wait in California in order to personally pick up our visas upon receiving them, not knowing how many months that could take.

We ask you to please join us in praying that we will receive pledges for the final $1,500 monthly (that we need to get to Austria) within the next couple of weeks. We know that this is not impossible with God and have seen how He has provided in amazing ways thus far, and is daily adding to our support level. Please pray that we would know God's timing… whether it is to leave by the end of the month or later in the year. Also, pray that we will trust God wholeheartedly in the decisions we need to make and not try to rely on our own plans. We thank each of you for joining us in prayer, we are strengthened and encouraged by your prayers and we know that without prayer none of this would be possible. We can't wait to be sending you our itinerary for our departure.

With lots of love,
Dan and Regan

Happy New Year!

We hope you have all had a Merry Christmas. As the new year begins, we are looking forward to seeing what God will do in 2008. As of now, we are still working hard at raising funds to go to Austria. As each day passes, we know we are one day closer to being in Austria. It is exciting for us as we prepare to work with refugees there. We look forward to hearing from you and seeing how God is working in your lives.