KENYA BOUND!!!

Well, it's kind of hard not to believe now.  The above photos are a testament to God's provision, faithfulness & fulfilled promise. We have finalized the purchase of our round trip airline tickets to Kenya! We owe a mere $700 of a figure that was at one time close to $30,000. 

We are so grateful for so many of you that have supported this trip and encouraged us in so many ways.

Trip preparations continue to go well. The team continues to rehearse, learn English, fundraise, prepare teachings & other activities, and seek the Lord and His flawless purposes for this trip.

We definitely have the most difficult financial mountains to climb behind us now for the missions trip to East Africa.  We would continue to ask for your prayers though for the remaining funds left to be raised. We still have to raise money for:

• In-country Kenyan flight from Nairobi to Kisumu (closest airport to where we'll be ministering - $2,250 ($150 per person)
• Rental vehicle while in Uganda - $200
• Food - $800
• APPROXIMATE TOTAL LEFT TO RAISE: $3,250 US

If you would still like to donate a tax-deductible gift for the trip, please from now on send checks to our church in the U.S. (as we've now been able to calculate our mission, Youth With A Mission), takes almost a month to process & deposit our donations for the trip. You can give through our church in the U.S. by making out all checks to:

"Mount Paran Church" 

and sending them to the following address:

"Bolivia Missions - the Moreheads"

c/o Mount Paran Church

2055 Mt. Paran Rd.

Atlanta, GA 30327

Our church ensures that we'll receive 100% of your donation & will put it all towards the trip.  Please again let us know that you are sending a gift for the trip & we will make sure it gets put towards the Kenya trip & not any other of our ministry endeavors.

U.S. Visa Update

We've witnessed God's faithfulness like never before over the last 3 weeks! We'll give you the brief version here.  As previously reported, 12 of our team members (to be able to transit through the U.S. & save over $600 a person on airfare), needed to travel to the U.S. Embassy here in La Paz, & go through an extensive interview w/ an Embassy official here. The process is by no means an automatic thing as most Bolivians get turned down, deemed as flight risks to stay in the States. 

Deterrents

1. 5 weeks ago (3 weeks before our visa interview), there was great political unrest in Bolivia & the U.S. Ambassador was EXPELLED from Bolivia
2. 4 weeks ago (2 weeks before our visa interview) -  anti-U.S. protestors attempted to storm the Embassy, & Embassy officials were evacuated. Thankfully the embassy was untouched & protestors were driven away by Bolivian police 
3. 3 weeks ago (1 week before our visa interview), there were road blocks between Santa Cruz (our city) & La Paz. 
4. Upon arrival to the interview & while in line, several members of the group were told that their applications were invalid because the printout was not on a laser printer & the bar code could not be read - thankfully they were able to reprint them at a nearby internet cafe in time for their interview
5. Seemingly everyone who'd gone before the team was being turned down their visa requests

Despite all of that, God granted the team His favor & grace... and by noon on Monday September 29th, 2008 - ALL 12 members of our Bolivia to Kenya team WERE GRANTED U.S. VISAS TO TRANSIT THROUGH MIAMI ON OUR WAY TO EAST AFRICA! 

Thank you so very much for those of you who've been praying for us in this process & for the encouragement you have been to our team and this endeavor God has put before us!