Greetings from the Southern Tier of New York State.

Today is the day we were scheduled to be heading west -- but due to some unfinished items it looks like we will be extending our stay here at least until Tuesday, May 2nd. Shirley, Joel and I have all been wrestling with some illness in the midst of our packing and loading up over the past few days. We are believing for healing and strength to get through this thing. Please pray for us when you think of us.

Praise God!! He continues to supply for this move day by day.

Here's an update on where we are financially:

We have been without pay from the church for the last 3 weeks and since we were counting on our church pay to help with the move and final bills at the parsonage, that puts us behind some. But we know God will supply! We still need about $700.00 for the parsonage Gas and Electric bill. I am so grateful that our God is much bigger than $700.00 and we patiently wait for His provision.

Thank you to all who have given sooooo much over the past 2 months. The truck and trailer were rented last Friday. right now it is about 7/8ths full. A big, big, big, big, big thank you to all who provided muscle power for the load up, as well as those who provided food and time to make things go so smoothly.

Please continue to pray for us to be able to finish up here quickly because we only have a total of 11 days to return the rented truck.

We are so thankful for the Body of Christ!! We couldn't imagine such a move without our brothers and sisters involved.

WithLove and For his Glory,
Joe, Shirley & Joel