WOW!

Things have been changing this last 30 minutes faster than I could keep up with!

We had a goal for Monday that would allow us to purchase our tickets.  We started the day $188 away.  We had a partner who said that they would do the $100 when the $88 was accomplished.  We have prayed that God would answer our prayers to reach this goal by Monday, but also agreed that His perfect timing was better than any goal we could set.

We sent out a few emails to people who were praying about partnership and let them know why Monday was our goal and left for the day.  While gone we got an email that we had a new partner for $50.  Posted an update on facebook when we got home - $38 more to go.

A friend sent me an email that they would do $1 per month.  Remember every size partnership counts and we were just as excited over that partnership as any other partnership.

Posted an update and before I could finish with the paperwork for the $1 partnership got a facebook message asking to change the goal to $7 - they were taking $30/month.

While telling them thank you another person chimed in said DONE!  They were taking the last $7.

Now here is the funny story - I am horrible about rounding and SEND told me no rounding for this goal - had to be exactly the amount they said - well, I had been rounding 23 cents off not expecting it to come down that close (ok, one day I will learn).  A partner (who knows about my rounding habit) was watching the progression on facebook and sent me a message to see if the $7 was still needed and I told her no - it was all done, but I had rounded by 23 cents.  Guess what she did?  She increased her partnership by $5.

So God not only answered our prayers for our Monday goal - he exceeded it!  Isn't that just like God?

So on Monday we will call the embassy and pray that the kid's VISAs have been resolved and then we will be set free to make our airline reservations.  We are hoping to depart sometime between September 28 and 30.

There are still 3 provinces left on the partnership map - but God has taken care of every other detail, so I believe He will finish the map as well.

Tonight, however... there is some serious celebrating and praising going on in the Hunter household.