Hey everyone,

We wanted to give you all a quick little update since our last email that went out a couple weeks ago. Without getting into a bunch of details, we have decided to come back to the states as a family for most of the summer. As we mentioned in the last update Eden and Briana were planning on going back for Eden’s best friend’s wedding already and because of very generous donations (1 large chunk was already sitting on my in-laws table without our knowledge before we had even sent out the update) from churches and individuals, we have received almost all of the funds for 5 roundtrip tickets. Initially, with just Briana & Eden, it was going to be a very quick 4-5 week trip.

After and talking and realizing it would be good for us all to head back for a quick trip to see family, we asked you all to pray for wisdom as we were torn. Well in just a few days we received some wise input and the Lord provided most of the funds for our whole family to come back. We are very thankful for those of you who gave and wanted to help us with this trip, and it wouldn’t have been possible without you. A big reason we are doing this is we will not be coming back to the states until after Eden graduates (so summer of 2027) and we felt a 4 year term between was going to be hard for many reasons. We are softer and more spoiled than those old school missionaries!

As much as we would love to see ALL of you, it will be a very quick 2 months with lots of things that “need” to get done while stateside as we won’t be back for another 2+ years as I mentioned. So because of that we will not have time to travel to all of our churches and visit with everyone (even though we would love to), we hope and pray you all understand this. There are a lot of changes coming to our ministry (which we will update you all on soon) and we are looking to use this time to regroup and refresh with family.

One more need we have is a car….we were wondering if anyone in the Eastern, Pa area would have a reliable car they’d be willing to loan or rent to us for the summer. It would be from around May 20th-July 20ish. We will need to drive it to Indiana for the wedding and a couple trips back and forth to Pittsburgh so something reliable and big enough for 5 people would be great.

We will be leaving the tribe to head back in just over 4 weeks. This time is coming fast and we need to get everything figured out and still buy plane tickets and what not so if you have any leads on a vehicle please let us know as that would be something we can check off the list. If anyone else would like to help with the trip, you can message us. We have enough to get us to the states but a li’l short still to come back but we know the Lord will provide as He ALWAYS does. We again want to say thank you to everyone who gave and prayed and encouraged us. We will be sending out a video update in a couple weeks with some big changes to our ministry so be on the look out!!