We wanted to update you all on the situation. Due to the timing of death and our flights we had to make a decision as to stay in the states and most likely lose our tickets or continue to Indonesia.

We spoke with our Pastors and decided to stay back a couple weeks praying for everything to work out with the tickets so we could stay and help my (J) mom with settling my grandfathers estate a little bit. I took a bus out to Pittsburgh on Friday and have been helping my mom with cleaning and what not and Briana and the kids are driving out to Pittsburgh today (Monday) for the week.

We appreciate your prayers and kind words. After hours and hours of going back and forth with the airlines we were able to get our tickets changed to the 26th for a minimum fee. PTL! Even though we were excited to be heading back to Dem-Land today at 8pm we believe we need to stick around a couple weeks to help with the situation.

If you are in the Pittsburgh area there is a funeral service at Bible Baptist Church in Plum Borough, Tuesday at 9am. Following that we will be driving to Frazysburg, Ohio (where my grandfather is originally from) to have another short service and burial.

Thank you all again to everyone who helped with this unexpected change in plans.

This will be short but I would ask for you all to pray. Last night my (J) grandfather passed away unexpectedly. We can rejoice because he was a man who loved Jesus and we know he is with his heavenly Father now but the details are not pretty.

With out getting into details my family was planning on leaving to head back to Indonesia in 4 days and we bought non-refundable tickets (to save money) and I am torn as what to do in regards to staying and helping my mom (we don’t have extended family) settle the affairs of the house, my grandmother who has severe dementia but also not feeling at peace with the possibility of loosing the money for the plane tickets if the airline won’t honor the death certificate. (Money that some of you gave to purchase the tickets)

Please pray for peace and also that the airline will allow us to change flight dates. If you have any questions feel free to call us at 484-300-7069.