Dear Family & Friends,

We find ourselves in Woodbridge, VA at the home of our daughter, Dawn and her husband Ray; We also have two precious grandchildren here, Quinn & Quincy. We finished our FMI training last Friday, headed home to Indio, washed clothes repacked, spoke in Hemet, CA, at our wonderful Foursquare Church there on Sunday morning and Cliff & Vickie Ingle accompanied us. We had a great time! We were hosted by Pastors Ron & Denise Hernandez; they are very dear and their church is a precious community of believers of all ages.

We set out, all packed-up, on Monday morning, after breakfast with Carlos & Tammy Pena; Carlos will be taking our church plant and moving forward with it. We know God has a real call on his life for pastoring. He has a heart for people and loves discipling them; just what is really needed.

We stopped our first night in Denver to see Debbie, Naomi & Declan; then on to Decatur, Ill. where we were hosted by Dr. Warren & Linda Jesek, very dear friends from our epoch in Decatur. We left after a few hours (literally) of sleep and headed for Woodbridge and Dawn & Ray, where we are now.

We have more work to complete on our status with FMI. We must receive the formal letter of invitation from the Brazilian church; we understand that it is forthcoming. Then we must formalize our job description and have it authorized by the receiving church. We are working on all of these things at once. Next, we must submit two budgets to the FMI financial department showing our budget for set-up costs and our budget for yearly support for living expenses and for ministry expenses.

As soon as the above things are in order and we receive approval for fund-raising we will begin that aspect of our process. We will be traveling around to visit churches, meeting with District Mission's Reps and contacting all who would like to partner with us in this new chapter of our ministry to the Brazilian Foursquare Church.

Right at this very moment we are a little nostalgic as we have bid Denise farewell for we don't know how long. She was home from Guam on a TDY with the Air force. After her course and duty in FL she came up to Dawn's for a few days to be with us. Please remember her in prayer as she heads back to Guam during these next few days. We already miss her much.

I need to bring this to a close right now; but I will be back sooner this time, to give you some words of encouragement that the Lord has been dropping into my heart. You are all very loved and we pray that all is well with you as you head into the wonderful Thanksgiving season. May we all recognize how very much we have to be thankful for. God is so good and He never leaves us nor forsakes us. :) I'm so glad to remember that!

God bless dear, dear ones,
Our love,
Dale & Patti