We're back!!

Please forgive us for not updating this blog more often . . .we promise to get better at this!!! I just wanted to share this latest update email that Bryan sent out to some people. We are still working on getting our email list together, so if you didn't receive this one, we haven't forgotten about you. We hope all is well with everyone & that you have a great Memorial Day weekend. Anyways, here it is:

Dear family and friends,
Greetings in the love of Christ. We hope this email finds you well. We are very busy at this time of year, and we imagine that many of you are too. Robin is finishing up a training class at work and is working up to twelve hours a day. Bryan is finishing up school and baseball and is also working long days. We are writing for a couple reasons.
First of all, we want to let you know about an upcoming fundraising dinner at our church. Our Sunday School class is hosting a dinner to raise support for our ministry in Costa Rica. The dinner will be at 5:00 on Saturday June 3rd at Christ United Methodist Church in Louisville, OH. The church is located at 600 E. Gorgas St. in Louisville. Feel free to write and request detailed directions. A meal of hamburgers, hot dogs, pasta salads and desserts will be served. We will not be selling tickets, but we will take donations at the door. All the money earned will go towards our trip. Along with the dinner, entertainment will be provided. Bryan along with two friends Tony and Andy Wolfe will be playing music from the cd that they recently released. We will also be selling the cds that evening. Half of the profits from sales of the cd will go towards our trip as well. For more information about the cd, check out: www.wolfeandkandel.com We will also be available to talk about our trip and answer any questions you have that evening. If you have any questions about the dinner, please let us know. We realize that this is a busy time of year, but we hope to see many of you there.
The second purpose of this email is to update you on our support raising. We have been working to raise support for our trip for nearly a year now. The process has not been easy, but it has given us the opportunity to travel to many places and tell others about the ministry God has set before us. We've been blessed by many financial donations, prayers and encouraging letters. Currently, we have nearly 50% of our financial support collected or pledged. We are excited to have nearly half our support raised, but we realize there is much work left to do. We are still working hard to raise the 100% of support that Latin America Mission requires before we can depart for Costa Rica. We hope to leave at the end of August of this year. If you have any questions about our trip or our support raising efforts, please don't hesitate to ask. You can email us, write to us or call us. We would be glad to hear from you and answer any questions you may have. If you are interested in making a donation, checks can be made to "Latin America Mission" and sent to: Latin America Mission PO Box 52-7900 Miami, FL 33152 If you send in a check, please include a note that states that the money is for us, but do not write our names on the check (for tax purposes). If you prefer, you can send the check to us and we will send it to LAM. Also, if you are interested in receiving a pledge card from us, let us know. Pledge cards can be used to pledge an amount of money each month. Thank you and God Bless you. We hope to see many of you on June 3rd. For those of you who can't be at the dinner, we would love to hear from you.