Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - We're Heading Home for Furlough
Going home for furlough is always a difficult time for missionaries. We look forward to seeing everyone again and getting out from under some of the pressure for a while, but it is a difficult thing to tear ourselves away. Our four year term was due to be up in December of this year. After consulting with the mission and our home church we decided it would be best for the kids to start at the beginning of the school year rather then come home in the middle. So we will be coming home for our second furlough in early August.
Pray for us between now and then as we have a lot to do to get ready. We are in the process of searching for someone to cover the preaching at Hope Baptist for the time we are gone. Hope Baptist wants us to come back and continue our ministry here and that is our plan.
This will be a difficult furlough for us in that Erin will be 17 in August and 18 by the time we are ready to come back to Brazil. Please pray with us for her future as she will most likely be staying behind to go to college. She has been doing very well this year and is turning into a very mature, and intelligent young lady. Karina and Daniel are very excited about the prospect of going “to the States”. They have each spent a little over one year of their lives in the US.
We have been here in Belo with no other missionary colleagues for two years. We are hoping that our time in the US will give us the opportunity to recruit one or more couples to come and work here with us. Please pray with us that the Lord would lay it on the heart of a couple to come and join us in Belo.
We look forward to getting our speaking schedule in order so we can come and see you all this fall.
By His Grace,
Dave, Patty, Erin, Karina, and Daniel Luke McIntyre
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