Ok, Here it goes! I have been wanting to begin this blog for weeks now, but everything has held me back. There has been some kind of breakthrough so I am going to take advantage of it! I don’t feel like I should backtrack too much and spend time talking about packing the house, the plane trip or settling in New Zealand, that would take pages upon pages so we will just comment from here on out. My intentions in this blog site are to Journal brief snippets of random or related thinking a couple times a week (if possible) and also give updates on our mission for you to visit at your leisure. We hope and pray that it will keep you informed and involved, as much as you desire, in this ministry and in our lives.

Right, so... as I touched on before, it felt like we were in a cloud for the first week or so that we were in Dunedin. It seriously was like a depressing cloud almost of apathy, so contrary to the emotions and vision that brought us here! I don’t know if it was the jet/moving/packing lag, the feeling of closterphobia from the plastic completely covering our house windows (there is a painter working on the house..heh-heh...no it’s not Marc), or if it was some kind of spiritual oppression. Regardless of what it was, this past Thursday Marc and I finally had some good prayer time, the opening and unveiling of the windows began and I finally had a good night sleep. I praise God for your prayers! This morning in Church the pastor spoke on the passage in Exodus when Joshua and the army was fighting the Amelikites and as long as Moses held up his staff there was victory. You probably know that at one time Moses dropped his arms and quickly realized that he needed to have help holding them up in obedience to Gods leading. We totally sense our prayer partners holding us up when we are week. We are soooo thankful!

Hey, I did say this would be short, well it’s the first one, so please forgive me! :) This is an Amazing land! The untouched landscape just amazes us! Each corner we drive around is more amazing than the last! We hope to get a chance to explore a couple days after the tour. Right now Impact World Tour is just a bit north of us and is scheduled to be in Dunedin April 1, 2&3. We will try to update you bit by bit, but if your interested in the stats and testimonies of the people of New Zealand touched by God through IWT please visit www.iwt.nu/NZ/ . There have been amazing transformations of lives and cities and we are believing that for Dunedin too! Man, does it need some kind of radicle change! There is such opposition here! There have already been 2 IWT international leaders that stated Dunedin to be the most difficult city in New Zealand to “break through”. Boy is our work cut out for us and somehow we feel like this is a glimpse as to what will be before us in Scotland as well. Cool thing is, we know who wins in the end!

Ok, Marcs snoring so thats my cue to shut down the laptop and get some shut eye! Why is it that everyone denies that they snore? Yeah, and why do you only snore when you lay on your back and not on your side? Ahhh the marvels of the human body! Good night!