Evidence of God and His plan

In the last couple weeks God has continually confirmed to us that His plan is for us to go to training with International Teams. One thing in particular is His provision of 4,000 dollars from a generous supporter. Training is around 5,000. Thank You God! It is so cool when we as believers in Christ take a step of faith and then He confirms that step and then we take another and then He confirms that one and then we take another one. Cool. We fly out a week from this Saturday. A week and a half. Please pray for our travels. And if you would need some prayer for anything please let us know how we can pray for you. mattheum@yahoo.com

Peace,

Matt

Countdown

Time until Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 6:38:00 AM (Tucson time)
International Teams countdown till we go to training

Moscow, Russia

This is a picture from our trip in January 05. We went to an orphanage and we were able to bring lots of clothes for them. It was short but very cool to be able to show love to these kids. We told them the true meaning of Christmas. They celebrate on News Years a holiday but it is not about Jesus. So we told them about Jesus.

Peace,
MC

Employee of the year!

For the last ten months my beautiful wife has worked very hard to help with the financial debt that we incurred from graduate school. She is an amazing woman. She is also a loving and compassionate mom. Thank You sweetheart!

MC

Kids Playing Mouse Trap

While Jason & Sheila are in Africa their kids enjoy playing games with their cousins. We have had a full house but these kids have been gems. Good kids and very helpful. Way to go Parents!

We have had so much rain there are actual weeds growing in the yard. Today was hot and a tad humid.

Nana is back from Oregon and her eye is healing. Yeah!

Susan finishes her job soon and we are reading the books and doing assignments for the coming training in September. We bought our plane tickets a week ago and we have a date to get the kids passports in process. Please pray that we get everything done in a timely manner and that raising financial support begins well.

Nathaniel's new haircut

"Over the Hedge"

Saturday at 12pm the mail lady came to our door while I was putting my son down for a nap. The doorbell rang and I ran to answer it only to find a big envelope with the return address from Elgin, Illinois this is where International Teams is located. With excitement and uncertainty I picked up the envelope and took it to the couch to open it. I then began to feel nervous and wonder what if IT doesn't accept us. Maybe this is a letter to say thank you but no thank you. I then called Susan to tell her and she came home to do the honor's of opening the envelope since I was a tad reluctant. Guess what? She opened it and it said........Welcome to International Teams! Whoa.......!
Nothing to worry about.
So I guess I better get plane tickets since we will be flying to Chicago in just over 6 weeks. As I said earlier the training is 5 weeks long from September 8th through October 13th. Hopefully we will be able to go up to Wisconsin and down to Indiana to see some friends during that time.

Peace,

MC

Fear

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself! I have been thinking about fear lately after seeing one of my kids stricken with fear. For me it was not a big deal but to her it was the difference between life and death. She didn't get her homework done, then she was scared that she was going to miss the bus, and then she froze. At that moment I realized she couldn't motivate herself to do anything because she was afraid of the future. Frozen with fear. How many times do you or I find ourselves holding back or frozen because of fear. Maybe it is the unknown that you are afraid of or maybe you know but you are still afraid. God says in Genesis 26:24 "Do not be afraid for I am with you." He was talking to Abraham and giving him a great promise of what was to become of his life and then He says, "Do not be afraid." Wow. Life sometimes seems very uncertain but He will be with us! Check out this video of a cat that has no fear. And remember if a cat can jump in head first we should too! Peace

Please pray for God's provision!

http://www.iteams.org
September 9th is coming very soon to a theatre near you. Susan is finishing her job on the first of September. We are planning on flying out to Chicago on the eighth of September and leave the kids with Nana and Papa for two weeks while the girls finish their first quarter of school. Then we are flying back to pick them all up and take them back for the last three weeks of training. Our babysitter from Wisconsin is driving down to watch the kids while we finish.

The training expenses and room and board come to $5,000 and the traveling to and from come to $1,400.

Would you be so kind to enter into prayer asking God who owns every dime in this world for His provision.

You are so kind!

Peace

The 12 Corley Grandkids!

New News: International Teams Training

O.K. So we have been pursuing Missions and we believe God has opened doors for us to apply with International Teams. As you may know Susan & I have been working hard to pay off our loans. Since October 15th we have been living in Arizona. We figure that we had about $29,000 in student loans and a car loan of $6,000 totaling 35,000 when we came here. On May 8th we finally sold our Saturn for $6,000 and since then we have paid off many loans. The student loans that we still have add up to about $22,149.74 if we pay it off today. So that means we have paid off $6,850.26 in Student loans and our $6,000 Saturn, which equals paying off 12,850.26 in 8 months! Praise God!

Now, we have new news about our training from September 9th to October 13th in Elgin, Illinois (Chicago). It will cost us, for a family of 5, for 5 weeks of training about $5,000. We believe that God is calling us to the mission field and so this training is necessary for us to to serve with International Teams. I tell you all this because I believe God uses people to support missionaries, through pray and financial support, to do the work of God's Kingdom and I believe that if you serve God He will bless you. I am just letting you know how you can help us serve the Lord and help you be blessed!

If God is laying on your heart to pray for us then check this website regularly and pray for us. :)

Thanks,

The Colemans