One More Hurdle

We are only one week away from our Team Dubai family reunion in Tulsa! Unfortunately, only eight out of nine of us will be in attendance due to an error on the part of the International Office at our school. Our keyboard player, Jonathan Pinto will have to fly straight from Bahrain (where he currently is) to Dubai where he will meet us. We will miss him very much during our Tulsa band practices and on our 15 hour plane ride from Atlanta to Dubai, but we have learned flexibility many times this year and we know that this is nothing we can't handle.

Please continue to pray for our team: for safe travels as we come from all over the country to Tulsa, and again as we travel to Dubai, for final trip details to fall into place, for unity and for us to be faithful ministers of the gospel.

Here are a few pictures of our wonderful team from throughout the year...

20 days until Team Dubai family reunion!

Time apart: one month down, 20 more days to go.

In the last month, members of our team have been in Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Oregon, New Hampshire, Bahrain, Arizona and Texas. Not only are we all over the country and the world, but we are all DOING very different things with our time off. Studying organic chemistry, leading worship, spending time with family, vacationing, renewing Visas, life guarding, nannying, interning at churches, and designing, among other things.

Regardless of the fact that we are physically away from each other, the Lord has been faithful to keep our hearts united. We have continued to keep Tuesdays sacred as our team fasting days, giving up anything from food to facebook. As we sacrifice in order to draw closer to Him, He has been showing all of us a lot about focus.

Please pray that in these last two weeks, we will be continually prepared for this trip and our hearts would be more and more united as a family in Him.

Team Dubai successfully completed ropes and tour camp!

We learned so much...about encouragement, team work, loving each other, etc.

It was a challenging week, but it knit our hearts together even more than I thought possible.

We are a family now and the six weeks until our trip are our next obstacle. We will be reunited in Tulsa on June 27th and are praying that the Lord would make this an "absence makes the heart grow fonder" time. In order to do this, we are being intentional about staying in touch, we are fasting and praying together every Tuesday and we are keeping our hearts committed to the vision of the team.

Please keep us in your prayers.