Sarah and Keane

You would not recognize this apartment. All the parents were in the past week and made a massive dent in the great packing challenge. My parents are staying this whole week and then driving my car back to North Carolina, so they have been hard at work doing everything from packing to cleaning the bathroom to taking us out for one last meal at Mai Thai.

Sunday night, however, we were planning on taking a break from packing to go out to eat in the city with my parents and our good friends Jim and Caitlyn. They needed to make a “quick stop” at a friend’s house to pick something up…which turned into a huge, beautiful, German-themed going away party for us! All of Keane’s frisbee friends from the past 5+ years were there. There were brats and polka music and even an accordion! Our hearts are so full. Thank you, everyone, for making us feel so loved! A special thanks to Malz and Chris, who were the most amazing party hosts ever.

We will miss you all!

Hello dear friends and family,

It’s been a little while since we gave y’all an update on support raising. We have that and a couple other things to announce as well!

We are at 55% of our monthly support needs! Two weeks ago we were at 37%, so this is really encouraging news, and we are so grateful for the ways in which God has been calling both friends and complete strangers to join our support team. There is still a long way to go until we can purchase our plane tickets (we need 90% for that to happen), but we know that God is in control and we are praying for his will to be done in this and every situation in our lives.

We were greatly encouraged by a weekend retreat with our church’s young adults group. We were up on a lake in Northern(ish) Wisconsin…surrounded by lovely nature and wonderful friends…it was a good weekend of games, reading by the lake, tubing, and eating meals and s’mores together. This weekend, we are really looking forward to seeing both sets of our parents in the same place!! We will be getting lots of help from them in packing up our apartment as we anticipate moving out at the end of July.

We have two very quick announcements to make:

1. We are speaking at our church’s prayer meeting this Wednesday at 7pm! Please email us for more info: keaneandsarah@gmail.com
2. We are thinking about putting together a group of people that we can email on a weekly basis with prayer requests. We love sharing some general prayer requests with everyone through our newsletters and blog posts, but we sometimes have very specific things that we need prayer for that week, and so we would like to be able to email those things out to people every Monday. If you’re interested in that, please shoot us an email at keaneandsarah@gmail.com or leave a comment on this post and let us know!