Our First Update from the Mission Field!

"Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  I thank my God every time I remember you.  In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel..."

These words have never carried the same punch as they do today.  How could I ever thank you all so much for enabling me to pursue the call that God has placed upon our lives.  To each and every one of our supporters -- for each and every gift, small and large -- we bless God for you!  I wanted to get word out to you soon about how things are going for us as we being this new journey.

God has blessed us through you all generously by allowing us to be ahead of our goals in fundraising!  We are currently at 70% of our needed budget and excited about what God is doing because we see His obvious hand at work in His provision for us.  We will be spending the rest of the summer hitting the road to finish raising the rest of our budget.  We have plans to spend the next 6 weeks travelling to Boise to meet with many of our friends in the Treasure Valley.  We will barely be home in July, as we will be on the road to Montana, Iowa and northern Idaho.  Pray for safe and successful trips for all of us.

We are still waiting to see what God's plan is for selling out house.  If the house has not sold by the second week of August, we will be moving anyway -- getting on site for the first students to arrive for Rush Week.  We have lots of options available to us, even if we need to move in with Becky's parents in Libby, Montana and Marty would make a weekly commute (4.5 hours).

Staying in touch:  If you've found this blog -- PERFECT!  Bookmark this blog and come back often as this will be the method of communication that will be the most fun, thorough and regularly updated source of information.  As you can see above, you can find everything from ministry updates to family news and prayer requests.  You can find me on Facebook and/or follow me on Twitter (@martysolomon) for daily status updates.  

We will be sending out our first newsletter within the next couple weeks.  It will consist of essentially what you read above.  Everybody will be receiving our first newsletter hard copy via snail mail and not long after that (hopefully the same week), I will also be attempting to send an email version to everyone that has an email as this will be easier for everyone.  If you don't see the email version and you'd like to make sure you get it, email me (marty.solomon@impacttheu.com) and make sure I have your address.  To all the others, I will mail out hard copies.  My hope is to send out a newsletter every 3-4 months.  For more frequent updates, visit this blog!

Again, thank you for being a part of our lives and our future!