In just a couple days, on Jan. 14, we leave as a family for our vision trip in preparation for moving long-term to do mission work in Tanzania. We are very excited, and ask for your prayers in the following areas:

1. Pray for our family, and especially our kids, to connect well with other missionaries and Africans in the community where we will live. Dar es Salaam is a large city of over 3 million people, so pray we will start building strong relationships with some key people.

2. Please pray for us to get many of our questions answered about what it will be like to live in Dar, how to best prepare for life over there, and what we need to have in place before we move there.

3. Please pray for our continued support raising efforts. We are hoping to move to Africa during the summertime of 2009, but before we can move there, our mission organization (ReachGlobal) requires us to have 100% of the support it takes for us to live and do the work there. Pray that God continues to build our support team, even as He has been doing.

Pressing on,

Eric