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So my trip up here was relatively uneventful.  I talked to Steve and Ginny on the phone to let them know I was heading out and stopped at a coffee shop called “The Great American Coffee Roasters” to say good bye to some of my friends and get a drink that is come sort of iced Caramel Macchiato but with a little more of a kick in to it.  My friends told me to get it, they code named it “Jet Pack”, I briefly wondered if I should get one to put in my car’s gas tank.

At about 4 in the morning, I was about 3 hours from home, and I thought that since I was going to arrive on a Saturday, I should get an hour of sleep so that I could at least be partially awake to spend some time with my friends.  I realized just how far gone my brain was when I made this decision when my alarm went off at 5.  I was so tired, and felt sick, I immediately knew that I should have just kept driving and slept when I got home.  I stepped out of my car to head to the bathroom to splash water on my face, and suddenly realized that it was unnecessary, it was freezing outside!!  I have become a Florida boy.

The final 3 hours seemed to take an eternity, and as I entered into familiar territory, I started looking for anyone I knew or a vehicle I recognized. As I pulled on to the final road, my mom passed me, we stopped and I opened my door to get out but my mom only rolled down her window.  I paused midway out of the car and was shocked to hear the first words out of her mouth.  No it wasn’t, “Great to see you son!” or , “Welcome Home!”.  It was “I have to go to Jackson, I’ll be back in a few hours”. I must say it was a bit of a shock, all I could do, as I drove away, was shake my head in awe of how far gone she was, and say aloud to the nonexistent passengers in my car, “My mom must be getting married”

I saw a few people before going to sleep at Nathanael’s house.  When I woke up, my first stop was Paul and Tipharah’s house where saw my nephew, Dominic, for the first time, and see my adorable niece Vesper, who is now as addicted to flying as I am.  I put her in her wagon and “flew” her all over the house, making her talk as if she was talking to a control tower.  Now every time she sees me she asks me to take her “flying”, Paul thanked me for giving him a workout every night.  Vesper never wants to land, she is always telling me to take her back up, I keep having to explain to her that the “engine” needs to rest.

            I spent some time throughout the day with several of my friends, and at the coffee shop; it was so awesome.  I seem to get a little recharge with every hug I get from someone at home.  And every conversation I have, I feel more built up.  I am so grateful for the village, for having a place where I can come when I am drained, tired, and need recharging.  I thank them all for supporting me and continually praying for me. 

            I am heading home from Memphis today, where I have been for the past 2 days.  I have enjoyed spending time with them.  We watched a movie together last night called, “Everything is Spiritual” by Rob Bell.  It is a really awesome movie, I won’t try to explain it in this post, I would be typing for several pages and probably completely mess it up for you, I highly recommend it.  I had coffee with Joel this morning, he was one of my foreman when we worked together, and someone I use to live with here in Memphis last year.  It was time well spent.

            Thank you all so much for your support and prayers.  It has been very awesome, working for Steve and it is you that makes it possible for me to do that.  He and I had a very encouraging talk before I left.  And Ginny is like my mom down there, every time I am around her, I feel totally taken care of and part of the family.  Thanks again,

Your brother in Christ,

Austin

Trips

I wrote this blog on Sunday, but the internet has not been working on my computer for some reason and i have not been able to post it, so here it is anyway.

I first must apologize for not posting a blog in so long.  So much happens here it is hard to know what to write about, not to mention finding time to do it.  It has been crazy, as usual, and hard to find time for anything other than work, I didn’t even get to have a flying lesson for a week. 

            Second, I have a very exciting announcement, my nephew was born this morning in TN, I cant wait to see him.  I stay the night in Ocala on Saturdays at Jamie’s house since I go to church with him, and I got a text really early this morning telling me.  I cant say that I slept much, I have problems falling asleep sometimes, and last night was one of those nights, but this night had a slight twist to it.  Jamie’s 2 year old, identical twins, Lilly and Chloe, decided that they fancied night time strolls around the house.  On several occasions their parents had to come out and put them back in bed.  I must have drifted off at least a few times because a few times I had never heard them come into the living room and just woke up with them in there.  The second time this happened, I awoke to one of their faces about 6 inches from mine.  I was afraid to move incase it scared them, they were already in bed when I got to the house, I almost immediately regretted this act of kindness when the one staring me in the face sneezed.

            Steve left this morning in ITEC’s RV 10, he and another guy that is on our board, are flying to Lynchburg, VA today and several other places on the way back.  They are suppose to be back on Wednesday.  I almost got to go, Steve asked me if I wanted to yesterday evening, and I of course said yes, but after he made a few phone calls with the people that were housing us, it turned out I wouldn’t be able to, maybe next time.  One of the organizations that they are going to speak at is JAARs, an aviation organization that I looked up when I was still in school, I don’t really remember much about them, but it would have been nice to meet some people in the organization, I have been looking at the requirements of each organization. 

            And speaking of trips, I will be visiting the Village next week for my moms wedding!  I am very excited, and ready to see everyone, it has been a long 2 ½ months, and this was a short leg I am afraid, after this visit I am not sure when I will be able to go up there.  The plan is to leave here Friday after work and drive through the night.  So I should arrive Saturday morning about the same time that my brother-in-law’s coffee shop opens, a very good place to make a stop after driving all night :)

            Most of this week will be spent working on getting to a good stopping point on my projects, the main one is getting the Maverick building ready to move into.  Lord willing it will be done by the time I leave Friday, at least done enough to move into.  Also, there is a few things that I need to do on my car to get it ready for a trip, some of which I did tonight. 

            I am looking forward to seeing everyone at home.  Thank you all for your prayers and support, it has gotten me through these past couple of months.

Your brother in Christ,

Austin

YWAM

This week we have had several representatives from YWAM (Youth With A Mission) including the founders son David Cunningham.  They are going to buy two Mavericks at this point and do something like a TV show which will follow the Mavericks from out of our shop where they were assembled, to the Amazon Jungle.  They will be driving and flying the whole way with a camera crew and other YWAMers.  They have a program called Grass Roots News International, and since I will butcher the explanation of it, I will leave it to them to tell you. The website is called grassrootsnews.com, and you should definitely visit it.  One thing that I didn’t see on there is their next big plan.  YWAM has 32 teams that are going to split up and go to 192 countries in 80 days.  I think he said that each team is going to spend about 2 weeks in each country.

​Yesterday, David Cunningham asked us to go to the YWAM Training area near Orlando and show them the Maverick.  We did, I didn’t know where they were going till Troy asked me if I wanted to go about 10 minutes before departure.  Of course I wanted to, there were going to be tons of people around that were all going to the mission field.  I rode in the truck with Troy and Laura (Troy’s wife) and pretty much everyone else rode in Steve’s van.  We got there first cause they had to stop at Steve’s house, and we had the Maverick unloaded just outside the Training area before Steve arrived.  

​          I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I was told we were going to a YWAM training area, but I was really excited when I found myself in, what seemed to be, the jungle.  Troy and Steve were even surprised I think.  I was driving the truck and trailer now, and I thought that I was driving in an overgrown state park. The roads were dirt, or rather sand, and the turns and hills were sharp and the forest ceiling was low, there were times when the top of the trailer was far closer to hitting low branches than I would have liked.  Steve was way ahead of us in the Maverick, he must have been having the time of his life.  When we pulled up to where we were going to be having dinner (a really old rotten wood pavilion) we saw the Maverick sudden drop out of sight.  There was a really steep hill that was about 8ft high that Steve decided that he would just take the express ride down, and it wasn’t too steep that the Maverick wasn’t able to get back up with a bit of speed.  Troy said something about Steve having a wild spark in him, I didn’t think that Troy had a whole lot of room to talk, I have seen him go crazy in the driver seat too.

​We drove it around as a car for a while then put of the parachute just to show them what it looked like, it was going to get dark too soon to fly it. I saw them fly it for the first time on Monday, and while doing so I had one of those cartoon moments while, thankfully, no one was watching.  I was tying the plane down after my lesson, and was planning on going around the wing to get the headset off the front, but since I was watching in awe as the Maverick flew in circles around the airport, I slammed my head into the side of the wing.  Turns out I am not the only one, Troy said he has had his fair share of head injuries.  Apparently, the wing is just at the right height that when you are roughly 6ft tall or so and wearing a hat, the wing is in a blind spot, needless to say, head injuries are sometimes unavoidable.

​Moving on….

​          So we next drove it with the propeller rather than in drive mode.  I don’t think that anyone was really expecting what would happen next.  For those of you who don’t know, when you start a plane, the wind created by the propeller is much more powerful than I think most people expect.  I was surprised the first time Jesse started the RV 10 and unfortunately found myself the only victim of the minor hurricane created by that propeller.  The RV 10 only has 2 propeller blades and both are shorter than all 4 on the Maverick.  So then when Steve turned away from the adoring Maverick fans, their reward was being caught in the mini hurricane of sand.  Needless to say, the children that were there suddenly thought that this awesome flying car was no longer something to admire, but something to fear.  I watched Steve walk up to a little boy that looked like he was about 2 or 3 and ask him if he liked the Maverick, for an answer, was a terrified, high pitched “No”.

​          After dinner we went to the main worship building, this was slightly nicer since that is were a lot of the construction has been happening, but you could tell there was plenty to do still.  We sang some songs, then David, and Steve spoke.  David talked about Grass Roots News and YWAM’s plan to for their 80 day trip and their trip to take the two Mavericks to the Amazon jungle, and that their first stop was going to be at YWAM Orlando, the training area we were at.  Steve talked next, and it was the best that I have ever heard him speak.  He told a little about his life when his dad died, and when he met Ginny, and their kids.  He talked about his daughter Stephanie, when she died, and the anguish he felt.  I had already had a pretty rough day, and tears were not far off, but when he started to cry, I did too. I couldn’t help it, Steve is such a captivating speaker, he brings you right into the situation, it was as close to being there in the room with him when it happened as you can get without actually being there.  By all accounts, Stephanie was an incredible person. Steve related to God’s love for us, His children, to Steve’s love for his children and grandchildren.  I have seen Steve with his children and grandchildren, it is like everyone else’s love for theirs, but with a crucial addition,  Steve lives every moment to the hilt, when he is with his family, he is with his family, he plays with them; he is building a play house in his back yard for them.  He is able to put aside his international responsibilities to play with and love his grandchildren.  So with that in my mind, and then the picture he painted of God’s love for us, I was, as always, awed, not to mention feeling completely undeserving. Steve also talked about missions, and how it is done today, and what we as missionaries need to think about and change, most of what he said is in his DVD Missions Dilemma.  

          ​After he finished speaking about missions, he moved on to explaining our other programs, the Dental, Medical, Optometry… but I left the building.  I walked up to where the truck was parked.  I didn’t know why, I just felt like getting away for a few minutes.  I was in awe of God’s love for me, all he has given me, where he has brought me, and once again realizing how ungrateful I am.  

​          We loaded up the Maverick and were out of there by about 9:30.  Steve always stops for ice cream on the way home from speaking somewhere so we spent a lot of time looking for a place to get some.  We then realized that Steve wasn’t behind us, Troy said we better call.  Steve once got in a car to drive home from Atlanta while he was on the phone, two hours later he hung up the phone and realized that he was in Chattanooga, not heading south on I-75.  When he answered my call, I asked him if he was in Miami yet.  They had just gone back cause someone riding with him left their camera case.  We stopped at the last McDonalds before home, but their ice cream machine wasn’t working, so we just went home.  

​It was an awesome trip, and I look forward for many to come, hopefully soon!  I love and miss all of you so much and cant wait to see you all in a few weeks.  Have a great day, and thank you all so much for your prayers and support.

Your brother in Christ,

Austin​

In the Cockpit

Pretty much most of my day Friday was spent in an airplane, and of course, where better to spend your time than in a cockpit?  I had a lesson this morning, we practiced take offs and landings.  I was actually getting pretty comfortable with it, I wasn’t really nervous, it just seemed normal after the first couple.  Yesterday was really windy, and flying was very difficult, all the maneuvers we practiced were made far more difficult with such a powerful wind.  Maybe that’s why I found it easier to fly today.  After we landed, I went over to Charlie’s hangar to pay for the lesson, we talked a little about where I was at and what I am going to learn next.  Normally, I would start soloing after 2 more lessons, but I can't solo without my medical certificate.  I am supposed to get the rest of the requirements for the FAA when I am in TN at the end of February, so I will continue on with my instructor in the plane until then.

Sunday is Steve’s birthday, but his family surprised him today.  I don’t know all the details, but this is the story as best as I can with the facts I know His brother, Phil, flew down last night and him and Jamie and Jesse surprised him at breakfast this morning.  Then Jesse said that he had to go to the airport to meet someone, so they drove down to the airport and suddenly Steve saw someone he knew pull into the airport too.  It is the guy that itec sold their Piper Cub to.  A Piper Cub is pretty much a smaller version to Nate Saint’s plane.  (I will post pictures of it in my album)  He was going crazy trying to get Jesse to honk his horn or something to get his attention, he kept saying, “I bet he would let me fly it”.  Well, what he didn’t know was that the whole reason they were there was to fly it.  Phil and Steve flew down to ITEC.  When he pulled up he looked like a little kid with his new Christmas present.  He was going to take us all for rides, but he had to go after only giving Troy a ride.

Troy too looked like a little kid after getting out of the plane, he told me some stories about how Steve just likes to “play” when he gets in these smaller planes, such as seeing how short of a distance he can land, or take off.  He was going on about how instead of using the runway so that they could take off into the wind, they just went on enough of a diagonal down the other runway to still take of somewhat into the wind.  That may not seem like much, but really the diagonal was steep enough that they hardly used the runway, it was more of taking off perpendicular to the way the runway runs.

The days surprises weren’t over yet though, I went inside the offices, for just a moment when Troy asked me if I wanted to go flying.  I have wondered why this question is ever asked of pilots, if we had it our way, we would never get out of the cockpit.  Needless to say, I said yes, then he told me that we were going to Gainesville, GA and would be back tonight sometime.  It was totally awesome. We flew up with my instructor who was taking his wife to spend the week with his daughter’s family.  There was a medical emergency and she was going to help out.  We flew up in the TBM 700 in his boss’s hangar.  (I'll post pictures in the album.)  

​            We left around 3 and got back around 7, we even stayed up at the airport there for a while.  The TBM is an extremely nice aircraft and really fast; we spent most of the trip at about 26,000ft and traveling over 200 miles per hour with a headwind.  Troy and I were in awe the whole time. We were flying with the big dogs!!  We kept bursting out laughing when, after being told by radio that there was another plane near us, a commercial airliner would fly within 1,000 feet of us.  

​We are home now, but it was a really awesome experience.  Tomorrow, Ryan and I want to go for a long flight in the 150, we are trying to pick an airport that is roughly two hundred miles away and fly there, have lunch and fly back.  He is trying to build hours, I can't put the hours in my log book unless there is an instructor in the plane, and I am in the left seat, so I am just getting more experience and more familiar with flying, and of course because flying is awesome!!

​            Thanks so much for all the prayer support you have given me, I have really felt it this week, I have accomplished a lot, and the time I have spent in my bible have been really profitable.  One thing that I am really praying for is that the article that came out about me in the Jackson Sun brings in more financial support.  Thanks so much also for those of you how do support me financially, I am extremely grateful for you, for without you, this would not have been possible.  Thank you, and God bless,

Your brother in Christ,

Austin

Flying with Ryan

          Thanks to your prayers, this week has been a pretty productive week. As I said
in previous blogs, I am under a lot of pressure to get the Maverick building finished.
And this week I got a lot of work done in there. We are nearly done with the office, but
there are plenty of leaks to fix around the place, after that we are pretty much done. The
main doors are a huge part of the waterproofing project and that alone will take some
time, mostly cause I almost always work on my own, but also because it is complex. I won't bore you with its lovely problems, but please keep praying that we don’t run into too many
difficulties.
           I have had two flight lessons this week, and they were really great, I just need to
keep practicing what I learn so I don’t forget it. Ryan Leeward is my age and is an intern
here, not the mechanic I wrote about in a previous blog, another Ryan. He has his private
pilots license and the two of us went flying on Saturday after I was finished working. We
took off about 4:30 or so with no real plan in mind. I had mentioned that I wanted to
practice some stuff that my instructor had taught me, but other than that, we really
weren’t sure where we were headed. We flew to Lake Weir, roughly a 10 minute flight,
and he swooped down pretty low to the water, just below tree top level, and simply
weaved back and forth a little then pulled up and climbed back up to about a thousand
feet. It was really pretty, at least where you couldn’t see the bottom, the water was really
low, so when you were really close to the edge, you could see how nasty the water was.
It was also really funny to see board walks that lead out to a lonely dock about 10 or 20ft
from the shore. He told me that there are a several people with Sea Planes there.
Ryan’s family lives near an airstrip built by his dad called Leeward Air Ranch.
His house is right next to the landing strip, along with several other houses. So after
flying around the lake for a little bit, we went to his house. I must say, it is kind of funny
to pull up to a house in a plane rather than a car. After landing, we “parked” the plane in
the front yard and went inside to see his mom and dad. They were great, I met them last
week when they came to through a surprise birthday party for Ryan at itec. It was almost
like going home, well I suppose it was for Ryan. We just walked in and his mom, Donna,
greeted us, and then gave us some food, always a welcome greeting:) Dirk, Ryan’s dad,
went with us to fly his Cessna 185. It is a much larger plane then the 150 we flew over,
and it also is an Amphibian, meaning it can land on land or water. We flew back to the
lake, and Ryan landed it. It was pretty awesome.
           When we got home, it was nearly dark, Ryan and I pumped the water out of the
floats before going inside to an incredible dinner that Donna made while we were flying.
It was great spending time with his family, and I look forward to doing it more often. It is
only about a 10 minute flight from itec. Ryan and I headed home after that, night flying
is really awesome, and from our height you could see lights from several cities and
neighborhood. I could see the whole route I take to church and from that height it looks
like it would be a quick drive, boy I wish that was so, it takes about 35 or 40 minutes. I
have never been in the front of an airplane that lands at night, it was pretty neat. Ryan is
a really good pilot, and understands a lot about aviation, having grown up around it his
whole life, I have learned a lot from him. He told me that he made his first flight when he
was two weeks old, and was steering when he was 2 years old.
           If all works out, he and I are going to fly up to TN, he will drop me off and fly
back while I am at my mom’s wedding and then he will come get me after it is over. But
we will see, itec might need him too much.

Thanks so much for your prayers and support, it is much needed and much more
appreciated. God Bless

Your brother in Christ,

Austin

First Flight

Finally, the Cessna 150 is fixed!!  I helped Ryan, the mechanic, finish putting everything back together on Friday last week, but it wouldn’t start because there was something blocking one of the fuel lines.  So obviously, we were not able to fly until that blockage was removed.  So he came out again on Thursday this week and went down the entire fuel system and ended up finding a very small piece of something that was blocking one of the hoses.  Well, after helping him put it all back together again, we were going to go flying to test it out and make sure it was fine.  He is an instructor so I asked some question and was pretty much taking my first lesson.  He was even going to fill out a slot in my logbook of flight hours.  Well, we go over all the pre-flight list on the outside of the plane and we got inside, buckled up, checked all the instruments, and the plane wouldn’t start.  Turns out, the battery was dead, and on further inspection, we found out it was bad.  Jesse found another battery to use, but it needed to be charged overnight.  

​So all in all, I had an agonizing wait of 24 hours, almost to the minute now that I think about it.  The next morning, Jesse and Troy put the new battery in while I worked in the Maverick building, I was waiting to hear the engine start, but it never came, when I went over to see how things were going,  I found the plane was gone.  I went inside the office and Troy and Jesse weren’t there.  “I take it by the absence of Jesse, Troy, and the 150, that they went flying?” I asked to no one in particular, and when they all said they weren’t sure, I went to Jesse’s desk and saw that his headset case was open and empty.  I ran out to the taxi way and looked toward the fuel tanks, just as I looked, I saw the plane pull out of there, I watched it taxi to the runway and take off.

​I watched it for a while as they circled the airport, and texted them both while they did, “You sorry dogs!”  All I got was a, “Ha Ha” and a “We are risking our lives to make sure you are safe..!”  As soon as lunch rolled around I pretty much inhaled my pizza and ran to the hangar next door to talk to my instructor, Charlie.  We planned to fly at 3.

​We pretty much went over everything that he had told me to read a few weeks earlier and there were a few new things that he told me that weren’t in the chapters he told me to read.  We were in the hangar for about 30 minutes before heading out to the plane.  We did all the preflight stuff outside the plane, then got in the plane bucked up and once all the instruments were set, we started the engine.  I cannot deny I was a little apprehensive when he went to start the plane, I have only come up to this part in the flying 3 times without it actually starting or us finding something else wrong with it.  But it started up on the first go.  He taught me how to taxi and then he took off, we only got to fly for about 30 or 45 minutes before we landed, he had to be somewhere and was already pushing his luck.  But though it was short it was so awesome, learning it myself and not just steering the plane.  I am finally starting to live my dream, and it feels so wonderful to finally be underway.  I know there is a long road in front of me, but I look forward to it.  

​My next lesson is tomorrow. Charlie wants to fly every morning Monday- Friday, but I don’t have enough support to do that yet.  I think that I have enough support to fly twice a week right now. Steve told me not to wait long between each lesson, so I don’t forget what I learn and it helps you learn faster.  I met another pilot, named Jesse, who said the same thing, He flies planes and helicopters and he is an EMT.  He is a really neat guy, he comes around here a lot to help out.

​I want to thank my supporters, Ken and Tina, Mary, Joy, Eric and Heather, and all the households in Nathanael’s Clan.  I am extremely grateful for your support and allowing me to help itec, and train for the mission field.  Also I am just as grateful to everyone for your prayer support, it is very much needed, and it is because of you that I am able to keep giving to itec.  Thank you all SO much, I love and miss everyone,

Your brother in Christ,

Austin

Roofing Life University

Friday and Saturday we finished roofing Life University.  A guy that is a good friend of Steve’s and has helped itec out a lot, David Nickles, owns a metal roofing company and he flew down to oversee the job.  He brought one of the crew in the plane with him, and the other two guys drove from Birmingham.  They needed a fourth guy to help on the job cause David Nickles was working on other stuff with Steve, so I helped.  I had a great time getting to know them, telling them about the Maverick, and what we do at itec.  When we went back to itec for lunch, we showed them everything in the front room (the museum) and the Maverick. 

The “museum”  is a room full of artifacts from the Waodani, Aunt Rachel’s chair, pictures of Nate Saint, models of the itec plane and Nate’s plan, a 20ft long Anaconda skin, a Jaguar hide, a bookshelf with all the books and DVDs that we sell, and much more.

We were only able to get about half of it done on Friday cause the wind was blowing 15 – 25 mph as the afternoon arrived, and we thought it wise to stop rather than one of us loose our head in the process of trying to control 20 ft sheets of metal roofing.

Since we were unable to finish Friday, we worked Saturday.  As it turns out, Saturday was the 55 year marker for the day that Nate, Jim, Pete, Ed, and Roger were killed on Palm Beach, and I was able to tell the roofers about it.

 Steve and David Nickles came over and took us to lunch, and while we were there we some how got onto where we were all born.  Well, when Steve told them that he was born in the jungles of Ecuador, the guys just looked at him for a moment, and when he continued to explain where he grew up (in the jungles), one of the guys, also named David, said that he wasn’t sure how much to believe him.  While we were all about to get in the van, Steve told me to remind him to give the guys some of the movies and reading material that we have.

Steve and David Nickles rode in Steve’s car, while I rode with the other three guys (Pete, Todd and David) in the van.  When we started heading back, I told them about Steve’s life.  How his father was killed with 4 other missionaries 55 years ago to the day, how his Aunt Rachel and Elisabeth, one of the widows, were invited to move in with the very tribe of Indians that killed those missionaries, and that when Aunt Rachel invited Steve to stay with her, he was adopted by the very man that killed Steve’s father.  I then told them that whatever Steve gave them as far as books or movies go, to read or watch them and not let them just sit on the shelf.

David was the main guy that I worked with, we were the guys that made the cuts on the ground and handed the tin up to Todd and Pete.  So we got to know each other pretty well.  David and Todd are not Christians but Pete was.  I asked David a little bit about it, he said that his mom used to make him go to church, so he did.  He was a pretty good kid, but when his mom died several years ago, he just went wild.  It was a pretty hard blow for him.  He had worked for a company for a year and a half without missing a day, but after his mom died, he took two weeks off.  We exchanged numbers before he left and I told him next time I am going through Birmingham I would stop in.  I should be going through there when I next go to the Village for my mom’s wedding at the end of February.  He sent me a picture of his son playing in the snow and he called me the other day. 

There is a picture of all of us who did the roof with Steve.  Life University is right behind us.  FYI: I thought that Life University was simply a nice name for all the programs that we are doing in that building, but I found out last night while Steve and Jamie spoke at a church that Life stands for Living Intentionally Focusing Eternally.  I thought that was pretty neat.  The website is not up yet, but when it is up ill post the web address.  Also, I realized that I gave the wrong book title on one of my previous blogs when I was talking about Missions Dilemma, it was made off of a book called “The Great Ommision” I had said that the movie Missions Dilemma, was made after a book called Missions Dilemma, sorry about that.  I was with Jamie behind a table selling books at a church after he and Steve had spoke the other night when I realized my mistake.  

Also, big prayer request is to pray for Mincaye’s wife.  She was bitten by a Bushmaster, a venomous snake in the Jungles, and she has been in the hospital for a week.  Her kidneys failed yesterday and they transported her to another hospital I think today.  Steve has been trying to get people to pray all over the country.  He has done a few phone interviews and was on a radio program last night.  Please pray for her.

Thank you so much,

Your brother in Christ,

Austin