Mission Work

May was a bittersweet month, we got to see the students plan their next steps, graduate, and move out. 

We had the students over for dinner, movies, and video games to spend some time with them before they left. It was a great night, I think we all stayed up until 11pm. Caleb was the last to leave after playing Mario Cart with all of the Smiths.

We had the Equip Graduation Dinner and got to meet a lot of the family members of the students and this really was goodbye. Some left right after the dinner was over to go home. 

We are also in the midst of planning our next public mission trip to Canada and our first meeting is coming up soon!

Demolition on trailer #2 of the staff housing is almost ready, we have the zoning permit, we are just waiting on the building permit! Mike & Lisa Miller will be putting a house where trailer #2 used to be. (Or used to be soon!)

We are still in the process of getting permits for the broken building and apartments above the storage area of the mechanic shop.

Home Life

Kylie had her 11th birthday! She wanted to eat hamburgers and French fries for her birthday dinner and wanted fruit pizza as her dessert! 

Peyton and Kylie started working for their grandmother to earn money and keep up with her large property and many farm animals. 

Joel and I got away for a weekend at the beginning of the month. To spend time together and to also test out the camper so it would be less stressful to use when we took the kids out!

At the end of the month we took the kids out for our annual beginning of summer trip! Most of school is over, things slow down with serving at church, and it is getting gorgeous out! This is a great time we get with our family before the summer season starts and is a whole other kind of thing. We do a lot of bike rides, hiking, fishing, campfires, and games. So thankful we get this time with them! 

Homeschool Corner

We officially wrapped up the school year! Hooray! Then I began the work on their portfolios for evaluation.  I do and don’t like making portfolios, they are a process and a bit of work, but what I love about them is seeing what we did through the year. Especially all the family mission trips and field trips and just extra together time. I love seeing those memories. We have a pretty great life, you all make it possible to have this life! 

Prayer Requests

• Support: We are still not fully supported and are actively raising support.
• Homeschool: that is an ever going prayer
• Guidance, wisdom, and discernment as God leads us as we lead the ministry.
• Our smaller family car had the engine blow a piston rod, we need a whole engine repair or replacement. Prayer for finding an engine that is low in miles and affordable and funds to pay for this repair.

Ministry Prayer Requests

• Mission Trips: Prayer for getting connected with people to match needs for teams
• Shipping: We have many shipping containers going out soon full of supplies to help ministries share the gospel around the world!
• Staff: We are in need of another front office staff member and another mechanic to meet our growing needs in those areas.

Family Needs

Support

We are very grateful for the team of supporters we have. Thank you! We are currently at $2,500 monthly and where we need to be is $3,570. This covers what we need to live each month as this is our only income. It has been by the grace and provision of God that we are making it. We could really use your help. Prayers and awareness of this need to others is much appreciated!

Would you like to join our team? We need your help to continue to accomplish God’s vision for us at the ministry. Would you join us as a monthly supporter so we can continue the work God has started? We want to take you along for the journey and we would be honored to be able to share the experience with you. You would become part of the team and we would share how God is working and the impact it is having on His Kingdom. Please pray and ask God if you should join us.