Our Sending Church

This week I, Jeyson, made it to New Jersey in time to join Stephanie's family for Thanksgiving. Of course Stephanie I are really excited to see each other again after almost 5 months apart. After over two years in different countries it seems too good to be true to finally be together for good! It is so nice to talk face to face instead of over scratchy phone lines and to actually be with each other instead of only seeing pictures. It took 24 hours of travel on 5 different flights to make it from Goiania to Newark....it was really exhausting and I was glad to finally arrive Saturday evening.

Some exciting new news is that Stephanie's church approved to officially support us and be our sending church. The church's name is Calvary Bible Church and it is located in Whitehouse Station, NJ. Stephanie grew up in the church and has been communicating with them for several years about our direction into missions, so it is such an encouragement to have them officially standing behind us. Also on Sunday we took a trip to south Jersey where we had the chance to share about our ministry at a church. I had actually met the pastor of the church in Brazil and he happened to live close to Stephanie's house in the States so we kept in touch and met him and his church again yesterday. We have a few other churches lined up to speak at in the next few weeks as well, which we are looking forward to.

Everyone has been asking about wedding plans and it is so fun to see things really coming together. Yesterday we went to pick out a tuxedo and we are planning the ceremony, it is starting to feel like it is really going to happen...only about four weeks now!

The Big Day

After several months of intense flight training today the big day finally arrived...the day for Jeyson's check-ride. A check-ride is when a government worker rides in the plane with a pilot and evaluates if they can get their private pilot's license. In Brazil there is only one weekend a month that you can take the check-ride and since Jeyson is leaving next week to go to the States, this weekend was the only opportunity he had to take the test until we return to Brazil in the Spring.
Jeyson has been working with other missionaries since June to complete everything necessary before the could do his check-ride. However there was so much to do that it took up until the last days to know whether he would be ready to take the test. A week ago we looked at the weather forecast and saw rain predicted for every day and it started to look hopeless! But thanks for praying because God brought weather good enough to get everything done...and Jeyson passed the test! We are so excited that Jeyson is now a private pilot as of today!! This is a huge achievement which brings us closer to our goal of Jeyson being a missionary pilot. The next step is for him to get his commercial pilot's license.....but first we have a wedding on the horizon!