Accepted by MAF!

We received the news Friday from Mission Aviation Fellowship that we have passed their evaluation and are invited back to become part of their ministry.  How great!  Praise to God for giving us this opportunity, providing the training and the ability to meet MAF's standards!  I performed acceptably on two weeks of technical evaluation, and we were also approved after a psychological evaluation and interviews with MAF's candidate committee.  Once again thank you to those of you who prayed for us and encouraged us.  We are now in what can be described as an "engagement" with MAF, where we are not official staff members yet, but we have passed their evaluation.  In January they will have us back for a period of learning about the different places MAF serves with the goal of finding a place that we fit well with.  After that period, we will be assigned to a country and become official MAF staff.  Then we will receive training on prayer and financial support raising, and begin building a ministry support team immediately following.  More details later, as well as halloween pics of Elise and her little cousins!!