INTO THE WORLD

      I want to give y'all a little more information on why we picked Indonesia as our first stop seeing as it was not a part of our original plans. As some of you know we were supposed to start our trip in Japan, but because of COVID restrictions that was not an option as of now (hopefully we can go in August). Because of this, we were praying about what to do and where God wanted us to go first. One of the hardest parts of planning the trip is the COVID restrictions. The restrictions seem to be constantly changing and now that our first stop was not an option we were looking for places that were accepting visas on arrival to be able to get our feet on the ground SOMEWHERE. We were fearful to take that first step, but of course God dropped a perfect opportunity in our lap all in His timing.       We heard from a new mission opportunity in Chiang Mai who needed help with volunteer teachers for a Christian school that he and his wife help start in 2008 called the School of Promise.

 Hello everyone!      As we are drawing near to our hopeful departure date we have some new information about our first stop in Japan. Unfortunately, we will not be able to get in right now for several reasons. First being there is a backup of students and business people who have been trying to get in for 2 years. While Japan says they are upping their intake from 5,000 people a day to 7,000 people it will still take a long time for all of those people to be processed and accepted in to Japan . Second, because we are not students, business people, or going through a specific organization, we will have to wait for a tourist visa to come available. Our missionary contact in Japan, Heath, has been very helpful to us and is going to check on any other possible options to get us into Japan. His prediction is that the tourist visa could open up in the summer time if COVID continues to slow down, but as we all know anything can change at the drop of a hat for better or for worse. So, we will