Sometime in August we plan on traveling to the U.S. for a while. We plan on making a more extended visit in order to accomplish some goals. Our first goal will be to look for a couple or people to come and begin to work with us in Argentina. If we cannot find these people (and even if we do find them), then our goal will be to raise support for a Christian couple that lives here in Argentina to work full time with us. Our original plan was not to work alone, but to work with another couple/couples or singles.
We will also try to raise some extra support, since some of our support has been reduced a bit this year, and a new baby brings quite a lot of new expenses. We also would like to raise extra support in order to be able to buy and maintain a car. We currently use public transportation for all trips, but we had some new situations arise where we know people that live a long ways away in public transportation (2 hours), but in a car it’s only thirty minutes. Returning from someone’s house in the province (outside of the capital) at night with a baby in tow is dangerous and extremely unpractical. For this reason we’ll be looking to get the money together to buy a car and maintain its insurance, gas expenses, and parking space (which you have to rent). A car is also much more practical with a baby than trying to drag a baby onto a rickety bus.
As you can imagine, this trip will have to be a bit longer, and we plan on visiting for four to six months, depending on how long it takes to complete our goals. We will appreciate any help that any of you who are reading this can give us! We look forward to seeing all of you and introducing our new baby. I can’t begin to describe how excited I am about our new little girl. (Here is an old picture of Karina's belly at 4 months.I really like it!)
