St. lawrence Island, Alaska

Osiyo(Cherokee for Hello),

We pray that all of you are well. It is Sunday the 27th of August and we leave for St. Lawrence Island on the 1st of September. We are all very excited for this chance to go and serve the people of this Island, off the coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea. We have completed the lecture phase of our DTS and now we go to "work". The picture above is our outreach team. This is an amazing group of people from all around the US and Canada. Please remember to "pray for us daily that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Jesus Christ...." Col. 4:2-3.

As most of you know we will not have cell phone service or Internet service, but we will have a telephone. We will leave our number with and contact regularly our mothers, Chey, Josh's dad, and our mission team leader at our church, New Hope. We will ask them to send out update emails weekly to keep you up to date on our activities.

We love all of you and look so forward to our return to Homer to check our emails and phone calls.

God bless you, Keivn, Sherri and the Kids

Counting Down!

Sorry it has been awhile since we have made a post. Over the last few weeks, we have had several visitors. Both memas and aunt Karo came to visit us. As soon as mema Carol left, then the others showed up. It was an amazing time and we are so glad that we got to spend time with them. I hope they enjoyed Homer as much as we do. We have also been preparing for our 8 week outreach. We will be leaving next Thursday for Anchorage, to pick up last minute things. Our flight leaves Anchorage on Friday morning at 6:40. We will land on St. Lawrence Island about 4 in the afternoon. First, we will be staying in the village of Savoonga and then in the village of Gamble for one month each. We will be doing some teachings for the adults and either a vacation bible school or an after school program for the children. Everyone is really excited about going, even the kids. Thank you to everyone who has supported us through prayer and by supporting us financially. If it wasn't for all of you -- we wouldn't be able to be here following the call that God has placed on our lives.

While there, we will not have any internet service or cell phone service. We will make sure that an e-mail is sent out to let everyone know how we are doing. Please be praying for our safe travel and for the Lord to use us in mighty ways while on the island.

We have committed to stay at the Homer base for the next two years. We will be returning to Texas in the month of December. We are really excited about what God has in store for us! Love ya, Sherri

Pedro Bay

This last week we were in the village of Pedro Bay. This village is in the "bush" of Alaska. There are only 60 people in the village. The only way to access the village is either by plane or by boat. The village sits in a valley on Lake Iliamna, which is 100 miles long. While we were there, we helped the missionaries, Chris & Mary Sanners, move from their home to the new home/church. They are an amazing couple. They have been missionaries for twenty something years. They have 8 children. We were very blessed to be there to help them in any way we could. We also had a time of intercession each evening. We had "night watches" which consisted of two people praying for one hour during the night, from 11pm - 5am. God really spoke to us during this time. I was a little concerned about getting up and praying in the middle of night, but this is really when God shows up - when we least expect it. The girls did really well! They enjoyed throwing rocks in the lake, walking in the water puddles, and playing with the Sanner children. We miss everyone and are looking forward to our family visiting us in the next couple of weeks. Sherri -- p.s. the picture is an arial shot of Pedro Bay on the flight into the village.