Working and Waiting

I continue to be grateful for all the prayers you are sending up for us. God is continuing to bless us and provide for us.

We are working and waiting. God has been faithful to provide work opportunities for all of us. For the last couple of weeks we have delivered Yellow Pages. The kids worked at this as well and did a great job. I continue to have a steady supply of kids to tutor. Some are tutored for just a few weeks to be prepared for the SAT or ACT test. Others come regularly each week. A lady also approached Keller out of the blue the other day and gave him a leaf-raking job for the fall.

The Lord has also been gracious to help me persevere in my classes this term. German is going well. I feel as though I am barely staying above water but the professor says that is how we should feel when we cram a year's worth of German into one semester. I have a paper due in about three weeks and am working on a course about the Cooperative Program online.

As God is providing for us financially and mentally, He's also working on us spiritually. As many of you know, there were wide-spread power outages here in Louisville last week so the seminary was closed all week. I received an email from the doctoral office a few days ago stating that the process of reviewing the field essays and applications had been delayed due to the outage. That puts me hearing about my test and final acceptance one week later than it was going to be. In stead of the wait being half over, it went back to being three weeks away. I now expect to hear something the middle of October. Amanda says this delay is a "trust test". God is continuing to test (and hopefully grow) our faith. Pray with us about this, too.

Prayer Requests:
*Continued financial provisions (increased hours tutoring and/or additional work opportunities for Jason, possible work opportunities for Amanda, or one of a thousand other ways God may choose to provide!)
*Our house to sell
*Regarding homeschooling--Keller to have self-discipline and Amanda to have creativity
*God's will as we seek another local church to worship and serve with
*Wisdom regarding our van; things are starting to stop working and it may be time to sell it and pray for another vehicle
*The Ph.D. committee as they review my application and field essay
*Grace to trust God no matter their decision and no matter whatelse happens around us