Thank you to each of you that came to the Farewell Fundraiser at Jim's last week! It was such a GIANT encouragement to have old and new friends come along side me with cheers, prayer and support! What a blessing to have the body of Christ rally behind the things God is up to! And it was nice to see people one more time before I drove East in the Uhaul...I will really miss you Seattle! 
Thanks to your generous gifts I'm very close to my $1950/mo goal. I can almost say "Athens, here I come!" But meanwhile, I'm unpacking in Idaho and doing homework for the training that starts Sept. 12 in Elgin, Illinois. Task #1 is to find the book "Foreign to Familiar" about cross-cultural living, read it, and write a paper on it. If only I could remember which box it's in...
