News From the Dyars...

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Greetings from Beautiful Northern California!

What in the world? Stuff blooms in February? 65, 70 degrees in the winter? That’s just not right! February is cold, single digit lows, snow, wind; not sunny, beautiful, shorts and T-shirt weather. Mark’s already thinking about getting ready for spring steelhead. That’s not supposed to happen before the end of March. Ahh, well, guess we can bear it. Seriously, this is great. No snow to shovel, daylight before 9:00 AM and after 3:00 PM, no studs, no ice... a person could get used to this.

KENYA
This is a good news/bad news thing. Good news is the trip is still on, bad news is we have to postpone. March just isn’t going to work.
For one thing, the money just hasn’t come in. For another, Mark has to be here when we move into the manager’s unit. We’ve been offered the on-site manager’s position and it seems like a perfect fit. Good compensation and plenty of freedom to keep doing missions full time. Mark has already let the folks in Kenya know and we are praying about when. Another plus is this gives us some more time to find someone to join Mark for this trip.

The cost for this trip is $3800.00. Can we ask you to prayerfully consider giving towards this trip?

ROMANIA
June is coming fast and the trip to Cluj Napoca is looking good. We’re looking for 6 or 8 folks to join Mark and build houses for the Gypsies at the dump. This will be a great experience, one you will never forget. The need of these people will pierce your heart and their joy and courage in the face of extreme poverty will fuel your own.

The cost for this trip is $2600.00 for airfare, housing and food for 2 weeks in Romania. You’ll also get a chance to worship in a great Romanian church and break bread with some brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Yours for the Kingdom,

Mark and Julie


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