Off to Orlando … Part 2

So I stayed up until midnight last night to send you the email that probably arrived in your inbox just a few moments ago.

It turns out that the email just sat in my outbox over night because of an internet connection issue.

I apologize. But this also gives me the opportunity to offer you another quick update.

I did meet with Chan Kilgore today as well as some of his leadership team. At the end of our time together he said that he would like to offer us the apprenticeship. This is truly an answer to years of prayer for us. God has now shown us our first step in the water. Now we will get to watch God provide the rolling up of the waters.

Here are a few further requests for prayer ::

• Pray for the first wave of five church planters here in Florida that I will be joining in the coming year. They are here with me in Orlando this week receiving training as well. Their task is truly monumental.
• I visited the apartment of Chan’s present apprentice. He has four children and will be moving to church plant in Italy right when we would seek to come to Florida. The apartment would be perfect for my family. Pray that God will make the way straight for our family.
• Pray for the provision of funding for the apprenticeship. The fact is that we will need to raise most of our own support when the time comes to actually plant. I do not want to exhaust potential donors for the apprenticeship, so it is my prayer that grants and denominational funding would largely supply the funding during the months of the apprenticeship.

Thank you to each one of you. You are truly friends whom we love upon whom we greatly rely.