We are moving out! Moroccans are moving in!

Wow! A lot of very exciting things have been happening for us lately! We have sent out letters and emails to tell friends and family about our plans to go to Krivoy Rog and we have gotten an incredible response! In one week we raised 23% of what we need! We have 24 other people who have shown interest but are thinking about how much they’d like to give! Also, many people have committed to praying for us and keeping us accountable with how we spend our time.

In light of this encouraging response, we feel good about stepping forward and making February 1st our take off date, provided we have the funds in place. We hope to contact our friends and family who have shown interest in supporting us financially to see if they had a certain amount in mind. This will help us very much with our planning. If our potential supporters still feel good about helping us out, and the timing is good for them, we hope that they will be able to respond in the next couple of weeks so we can start working on our visas and travel details.

We also want to find out if people on our mailing list would be interested in receiving email updates. Please let us know if you would like to be added to our list by emailing us at millers.ukraine@yahoo.ca

You are probably wondering about the Blog title "We are moving out! Moroccans are moving in!” Well, this is an incredible story of God's sovereignty and I hope I can do it justice in telling it. For the past 6 months, Bethany and I have been praying that when we leave, God would use our house and our stuff to bless someone who could use it. We always hoped that it would be a family from overseas, like missionaries or a refugee family from a Muslim country. We really didn't tell anyone about this prayer and a couple weeks ago, God gave us almost exactly what we were asking for! Through a contact at work, we have a family of 4 from Morocco coming to live at our house and use all our stuff starting on Dec. 1st! I wish I could give more details but I don’t know how much I can say about it on the internet. Sorry for the mystery... =)

Dad Miller tying our box spring to his minivan

There have also been some incredible developments happening over in Krivoy Rog! It looks like we might have a place to live, and the people in Ukraine are very excited about us getting there soon to help out. There is an amazing Canadian family there who has been so helpful to us. We hope to help them out with their ministry which has a lot to do with helping orphans. They are the nice people who will hopefully rent us a place to live. If you'd like to learn more about these great people, you can check out their website. http://www.halonen.ca/

I have been working on a recording arts curriculum and some ideas about how to use music and recording as a way to build relationships and help people make better choices in their lives. (The best choice we hope to offer is to invite the youth to make Jesus their king and greatest treasure!)

Well… that’s not all the news, but it will have to do for now. =)

-Dave of Dave and Bethany Miller