MADAGASCAR MISSION

The last 7 months have been so many things.  We settled into our temporary home in Florida quickly and have had wonderful fellowship with missionaries who have retired here after serving 20 up to even 50 years of service in Africa!!  Florida culture is different than we expected and much more transient.  There are SO many cultures represented here from all over the US and the World.  The children adjusted well to our new home once the homesickness began to fade.  They have had many unexpected opportunities.  They both played 2 months of rec soccer and then began taking gymnastics.  They have had several opportunities to spend time with the residents here on a regular basis like taking piano lessons from our next door neighbor and a pottery class upon our arrival and lots of bike riding. We have also had special friends come from Mississippi and gotten to spend time with dear friends returning from the field.  Lew's mo...

In December we met our Minimum monthly support goal and our outbound account goal!!!!  That is all so exciting!  We will continue to raise support for additional housing costs and ministry needs and eventually for purchasing a vehicle in Madagascar.  2015 was an incredible year of seeing the Lord do incredible things in our life.  We had to rely on Him for everything and He provided everything we needed.  With this great news and forward movement towards Madagascar, also came the hard goodbyes of leaving Kosciusko, Ms, our home for the last 3 years and a previous stateside.  We have many wonderful relationships and were so blessed to serve that community for as long as we did.  It still hurts our hearts to think of all those we left behind.  We moved to Minneola Florida last week to begin working at the AIM facility.  We will work here and wait for our teammates to complete their support raising so we can all leave for Africa in J...

These are exciting and exhausting days.  We are at 98% of our MINIMUM monthly support we need to join AIM and move to Madagascar in July!!!  We must have our support raised by December 15th to be able to move to the AIM Florida facility in January.  We will live and work there for 6 months and then head to Africa in July with our teammates!  We are so excited.  Our days are filled with traveling, packing, purging,  homeschooling, support raising, and social engagements during the holidays.  We have seen the Lord be so faithful and so evident in our lives throughout this process.  He has called us to this and He is blessing our efforts to be obedient to that call.  We are also preparing for the 5k run/walk/prayer walk THIS Saturday!  We are hoping for a great turnout and the weather is going to be perfect!  Please pray for all that we are involved in and for the goodbyes that the next 6 weeks will bring as we pack and move to Florida...

Who's ready to Move It, Move it for Madagascar???!!! Fill out your registration form now to get your shirt and enter the 5k run/walk December 12th at 8:30 am at Central Hills Camp outside of Kosciusko, Ms. $25 to enter including the shirt but you can also order a shirt if you can't make it to the event. But there is something for everyone even if you don't run. There will be a fun run for kids ($15) and also a Prayer walk trail. NO charge for the prayer walk!! Wear your Christmas colors in support of the Madagascar flag! Come out and support our ministry to Madagascar!!! But send in your form asap so we can get the shirts ordered! Be a part of what the Lord is doing in Madagascar!! Click form to print

I really get excited about what the Lord has for us as I see Him working in other believers lives.  We have had such a wonderful opportunity these last few months to speak to different groups of people both in church settings and one on one.  Though the travel has been tiring, it has been a blessing.  As we have talked about where the Lord is sending us and about what we expect the Lord to do in Madagascar, we have also been blessed to be able to pray with people and hear about the needs of those we get connected with.  We don't see this as a venture in How can you support and pray for the Johnsons.  No, this is so much more than that.  We have been able to encourage and pray with and for families in turmoil, health situations, mission discussions for future missionaries to the nations, and so many other things AS we are trying to be faithful in what the Lord has called us to overseas.  Many say to us, it must be hard to now be raising your own support...

We have been amazed at how the Lord is working in our lives and affirming our call to Madagascar.  We are now at 61% of our monthly minimum needed to go to Diego Suarez Madagascar to live and minister among several different people groups.  We recently took an extended trip to South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia to meet and share with many people individually, in small groups, and in church services.  It was a great trip and and is so exciting to see people from all over the country being led to be a part of the ministry the Lord has led us to for His glory.  We ask that you continue to pray or begin praying for our support to reach 100% by December. We have more trips being scheduled and some exciting fundraisers in the works that will involve many people coming together to pray for the people of Madagascar and support us financially.  We have so much to do before we are ready to go but we are constantly marking things off our list. Let us know ...

The Lord is pulling all the pieces together.  We are at 32% of our monthly support and about to begin traveling.  This summer has not gone as expected but i can see so much of The Lord's hand in all of it.  My dad had triple by-pass surgery in June unexpectedly and i was able to stay with him for 3 weeks.  (Please pray for his continued recovery, it has not gone as expected and he continues to have complications with medicines and regaining his strength.)  What a wonderful blessing to be able to be there to help he and my mom.  We delayed some travels but are now gearing up for several things. We will take the month of August to travel to Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.  Whew! It will be a lot of quality time in the car with the kids and we are looking forward to seeing all the people those places represent.  We have a fundraiser coming up in September hosted by my Bible study group.  Earlier this month, we h...