50%

We are so blessed to have family, friends and churches that are partnering with us to get us to 50% of our support needed to get to Kenya. This may not seem huge for some, but it means SO much to us. We are now in the LAST half of our support raising and that much closer to our ministry in Kenya. It is extra motivation knowing that we could be in Kenya by next year. We are praying that God continues to bring in supporters so we can move to Mombasa by fall of 2011.
Our family has had a wonderful time traveling together this fall! Elliot has been such a great traveler and her older sisters help out so much. We have gotten to experience a lot of great things and have met some incredible people. We feel blessed and humbled to share God's call in our life with so many churches. Our prayer during this time is that God would use us to encourage other believers to pursue His will on their life.
Highlights:
Elliot is 6 months old
Claire turns 4 this month
The girls got to swim in Lake Cumberland and ride on Sea-do's
Kennedy and Claire loved going to Incredible Pizza in Iowa
Aaron and I celebrated 7 years of marriage at the end of September
We are over 50% of our support needed
Got to meet some incredible people from several great churches

Books we are reading (and recommend)
-Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
-The Unlikely Disciple
-Spectacular Sins and Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ
-"The Lamb" We are reading through this with our girls-It is the redemptive story from the Genesis-Revelation!

Elliot Charlyse

On April 17th, 2010 at 1:36 am, we welcomed our baby girl, Elliot Charlyse, into the world. Elliot was 6 lbs. and 13 ounces. She was 19 1/2 inches long with very chubby cheeks and lots of brown hair! Stephanie's sister, Tiffani, was scheduled to have her baby via c-section that two days after. They ended up both going into the hospital on Friday night and having their babies 3 hours apart. It was an incredible experience for the sisters to do this together. Our family had an exciting and pretty overwhelming night with both babies being born. Tiff and Cal named their baby boy, Winston Blaise. Everything went well with both deliveries and the hospital staff was so great. They even wheeled Tiffani and Winston in to see Steph after he was born...while she was still in labor.
Kennedy and Claire love Elliot and are wonderful big sisters already. We are really enjoying this precious time with our baby girl! Aaron is officially part-time at the bank now and will be completely done on July 1st. It will be wonderful for him to be able to focus completely on pre-field and not have to juggle another job. He will be making a lot of phone calls over the next couple of months and setting up lots of appointments. We will start traveling quite a bit starting in the fall and will hopefully continue to travel full-time until we leave for Kenya. It is an exciting and new time for our family. We are so thankful that God has blessed us in such incredible ways and look forward to a busy and exciting year of traveling!

This New Year is bringing with it many new and exciting times. We will be traveling quite a bit, enjoying our new baby girl, and continuing to prepare for our move to Kenya.

Kennedy will be 5 in June and is so excited for the new baby to arrive. She greets my belly every morning and talks to "her baby" throughout the day. Kennedy is very smart and acts like a child twice her age! She has a crazy imagination, but keeps her things very organized and neat.

Claire-bear is growing up so fast, but still our little baby. She turned 3 in October and is still the smallest one of all her friends, weighing just 26 pounds. She loved helping put together the baby crib, but prefers to sleep in it herself. Claire loves to be (and dress) like daddy and is definitely our little comedian and tom-boy. They are both going to be great big sisters, possibly a bit overwhelming, but they will give lots of love!

Now introducing ::TEAM 200:: Check out the video and go to www.team-kenya.com/boons-team200 for more information.