Oklahoma!

We have enjoyed our time in Oklahoma! We were able to meet with 3 different groups about New Day! The first was our Oklahoma Baptist University mission team that is coming this summer! The boys will most likely be doing a soccer camp and soccer games/evangelism and the girls will be doing children's ministry and evangelism/survey work!

Our connection to OBU is this sweet girl, Dayla, who we met at our mission training in Virginia in 2003! She was a 16 year old missionary kid then and is now a missionary serving at OBU leading mission teams!

The team asked us if they should wear chacos in Zambia. Um... sure! (What are chacos?) These are chacos! Yes, you can wear these! (Must be an Oklahoma thing??)

We then drove 2 1/2 hours to Sayre, Oklahoma to see McKenzie!! McKenzie spent 2 1/2 months with us in Zambia for a summer in 2004. We had such fun together, and now her husband is a youth pastor and they are bringing a team to New Day in July!

These youth interns, Jacob & Shauna, reminded us of us back in the day :)

And then we drove 2 1/2 more hours to Purcell, to visit Lance/Staci and speak at Union Hill Baptist Church! Lance & Staci came to Zambia last year and we got to meet them. They are also bringing a team next summer - two sisters Madison & Mackenzie. Mackenzie is the International Brahma Queen! (it's a cow thing..)

This church is so supportive of us and we walked away with $3000 in donations (which brings our van fund down to $2280 remaining!!!) Lance & Staci also gave us a new Kindle Fire! Yay - now Blu will leave my Kindle alone!! :) We were amazed to see the area they had set up in the youth room to raise money for New Day!


Thanks our sweet Oklahoma friends for your support of New Day and love for us! We now have to hit the road to head to Clanton, Alabama to catch up with some friends and then on to Tennessee & Mississippi!