Canada here we come!

Vance and Bethyl Joy here. We’re now a couple of hours east of our new address here in Michigan. We just moved our stuff in yesterday to our friend’s barn. Worked all day to stash the stuff up high and tight along one wall after building shelves with a local carpenter from their church. Looks great, if I do say so myself! Pix is of Bethyl and our friend of over 40 years, Marian, in whose home (with her husband, Keith) we now have a place. We spent the day before getting MI residency requirements met: new driver’s licenses, vehicle registration for our 17 yr old camper van, voter registration, MI state insurance for the van, a bank account and HSA at the local credit union. We were able to get our same personal ID license plate that we had for our Honda in CA: NCOURGR. Like to be encouragers wherever we go .

We left our new address yesterday after packing and have weathered over in Flint on the way to Ottawa. We’re meeting with the missions committee for Metropolitan Bible Church there on Sunday. This is the prior church of a good friend of ours in So Cal, Gary Stubblefield. We traveled with him and his psychologist wife, Suzanne, last summer to India and Nepal. Along the way we trekked with the chair of this committee, Chris Shadbolt. We’ll stay with his family in Ottawa. Pray that our time will go well.

On the way back south we’ll stop with friends in Rochester and then move on down, perhaps, to just say hi to the folks at Interserve HQ at Upper Darby, PA. That would be somewhere from the 23rd to the 25th of the month. We were wanting to check in with them for a bit before we hop our one way flight to the UK out of Chicago on Oct 7th. I might be able to hop a short flight to Atlanta and back to visit my sister and my “adoptive” mom, Harriette, before flying out of Chicago.

All for now from rainy Flint at the Comfort Inn. Blessings to you all. Vance and Bethyl Joy