Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays! Its a day filled with traditions, family and food. What is not to love about that? This year was quite different for our family though. I (Matt) spent Thanksgiving in Oregon flying christmas trees, while Amanda and Grace were with her brother in Kirkland! It was hard to be away from them on Thanksgiving, but we got to FaceTime on the computer which made the distance a seem a bit less. We have a lot to be thankful for this year! During this tree season I have flown over 150 hours! I have finally met all the requirements Helimission requires which is such a great blessing! It has been 10 years working towards this goal, and to see it come into fruition is very exciting! Also, in our last post we mentioned that we were 32% of the way to being fully funded and that our hope was to be at 100% by Thanksgiving. We just got our November update and though we are not fully funded we are very excited to share that we are 52% of the way to being fully funded! This is very encouraging and we want to thank all of you who have joined our support team and for those of you praying us through! Our new goal is to be fully funded by Christmas! We still need you to take action and join our support team! We have great momentum, but still have quite a ways to go in order to be fully funded! Please take the time and visit our support page! We are currently packing up our home as we need to be out of our place on December 15! I'll be driving up a very full load to Kent tomorrow and hope to have everything on that load minus a few suit cases of essentials! It is weird not to have any of our Christmas decor up and our traditions are all packed up pretty much! Please pray for us as we become nomadic for the next few months! Pray also that we can be fully funded as my last paycheck comes on the 12th! We hope that you all have a very amazing Christmas season and that Jesus is the center of your celebration because He is worth celebrating!!!
Here is a short video of me flying a bundle of trees
First peek at your blog. We will be with you in prayer and more when we can during this mission. You two walk the walk and it has been a pleasure watching this mission come together, and a pleasure knowing there are young people bearing the burden of many of our desires to be the answer for suffering Christians worldwide. It has been a privilege. Ron and June
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