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Most of you faithful readers know that our family has been invited by MCC to serve in Zambia for three years. More on this can be read on my wife's blog at http://offeringupmylife.blogspot.ca/. We got rid of a lot of our STUFF on Saturday. We had invited some friends, church, coworkers to come and help themselves, by donation. So it was kind of a condo-moving sale. We had all kinds of kids stuff, clothes, games, books, kitchen appliances, dishes, etc. strewn all over the living room. And people came, and took some stuff, and made generous donations. Then my parents and another guy from church helped us take it two blocks away to the MCC Thrift Store. It was so nice to be free of all that extra stuff (even though some of it was hard to let go of)! The sad thing is, we have just as much still sitting around that we 'need' for a few more months. But, at least the clutter is a lot less as we try to list our condo for sale. While it was good to get rid of things, it was also good to connect with the friends that came by. Friends are good!

During this whirlwind of packing and sorting, I got a bit sick. Just didn't feel good. I was fine for most of the day of our sale, but my tummy hurt a bit in the evening. The next day (Sunday), I got the runs, and I don't mean the running to church kind like I was sort of planning. I cancelled playing bass on the worship team and still planned to teach Sunday School, but our Kidzone Leader graciously took over the class for me. The church also prayed for us (and others) during what I felt was a 'holy moment' of listening to the Holy Spirit. Church is good!

We get to go visit the Travel Doctor tomorrow and see what kinds of weird medicines we'll need for three years in Africa. The main things to worry about are malaria, and to a lesser degree Yellow Fever, though that's more of a travel ticket vaccination, it looks like. We're also trying to figure out our Orientation in Pennsylvania in July, combined with our vacation in Colorado in August, and then a bit of time back home before we head overseas in September. Lots of preparation to do.