Flight from NC to TN and back

Thursday morning flight from New Bern to Chattanooga...we flew in between two cloud layers...beautiful sky!
The formation flight was a great experience.
The Lord blessed with wisdom, safety, great weather (but cold), as well as fellowship and just a wonderful time. I flew an navigated the yellow Cherokee 180. The purpse of the trip was for Jack to pick up the Cessna 206 to take it back to New Bern to be used by his church for missions trips. I also fulfilled a requirement for my commercial license by flying over 300 miles solo. Thank you for praying for the flight.

Places and Faces in NC

Here are a few picture for you finally...our favorite place to eat down South. Elena loved the cow. We are having a good time with the Webbs in Carrboro.

Half way...deputation and plane fund!

We just had a wonderful meeting in Rockwell, North Carolina this morning. The church there gave a generous amount toward the purchase price of the plane we are raising funds to buy in Africa. The church we visited tonight also gave us a love offering. That should put us at half ($25,000 of $50,000) for the airplane! Praise the Lord we are half way there both in the airplane fund and in our deputation. That's right, we heard from the church in Pennsylvania that voted to take us on for support. We are at 50% of our support as well! What a milestone and a blessing from the Lord. Thank you to all of our churches and friends!

On another note, my brother Chris made it safely to Cameroon for an 8-10 week missions internship with Tom Needham. Pray for his safety and for the Lord to use him and others in a mighty way while in Cameroon. Pray for Chrysanthus who continues to labor in the Ndop Bible study. Pray for bro. Tom who continues to seek to regain his flight authorization to be able to fly back into the bush. Pray for Cameroon!

Meetings in the Carolinas

North Carolina is a beautiful place to be...the sun shines down here. However, we did run into a bit of snow today, but nothing stuck to the ground. We had a great week in coastal NC for one meeting last Wednesday as well as flight training with Jack Hunt. I did my night cross-country in a C-172 with Jack and was checked out to fly a Piper Cherokee as well. We are currently in Rockwell, NC with Pastor Jeff Faggart for a meeting at his church. He is a pastor and the founder of the Baptist History Preservation Society (www.baptisthistorypreservation.com). We will head to Carborro for a meeting on Wednesday and then down to Taylors, SC on Saturday. Sorry for the lack of pictures. Thanks for praying for us!

A morning in Philly

We had two good meetings in the Northeast. Sunday morning we were in Pennsylvania. Sunday evening we crossed the Delaware for a meeting in New Jersey. We went to Philadelphia for two hours on our way to North Carolina on Monday morning. We took a tour of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed. We walked across the street as you can see in the picture with Abby and Elena to see the Liberty Bell. What would a trip to Philly be without the cheese steaks...they were awesome! We are now in North Carolina for flight training and three meetings! Thanks for praying. We picked up two more supporting churches in Illinois this week!

Can you find the doll in this picture?

We were in Roscoe, IL earlier in January where this picture was taken. The church just took us on for support!

2008 Southern Tour

Joanna Estep, Elena Sanderlin, Emily Burtt...Happy New Year!

We are currently in York, Pennsylvania, getting ready for a meetings in Chester Springs, PA as well as Collingswood, New Jersey on Sunday. We hope to spend a few hours in Philadelphia (enough to make me want to come back for more I am sure...a great place for US history, Baptist history, and of course the famous philly cheese steaks).
On Monday, we will head down to North Carolina for three meetings plus flight training with Jack Hunt. I hope to take the written test for the commercial pilot's license as well as fulfill a few of the flight requirements with bro. Hunt. Pleaes pray for all of this to happen :)

We received word of at least one more supporting church in Illinois this week. Thank you all for praying as we endeavor to head to Cameroon as soon as our support is in!

(Thanks for the picture, Anna...had to put that one on here)

Happy New Year

We trust you all had a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!!

Arrival in Illinois

Christmas with my Grandma and Grandpa

Elena with her Grandad

Prior to Christmas

Just prior to the big snow storm in Ypsi
Eating spaghetti...
Christmas program at AABC...great job Justin!

PA and OH trip

On our Pennsylvania trip at Ohiopyle with Pastor Wrachford and his family.
...still with the Wrachfords at Cucumber Falls, PA.
With bro. Betry at the Presidential air museum in Dayton, OH. I believe this plane was Eisenhower's plane called "Columbine III." We were at Dr. Shaw's church in Kettering, OH.

Right now, we just had a meeting in Geneseo, IL, at a church just 15 minutes from my parents house. We thank the Lord for a good meeting and time with family. I'll be doing HVAC work with my dad today, and we'll be headed back to MI for a meeting this Sunday.

Thanksgiving and November Happenings

Elena, Emily, and Phillip at McDonald's with Grams, Grandma, and Abby.
Putting up our tree early since we are on the road quite a bit.
Missions Conference at Falls with Mike Reddick.
With Abby's family for Thanksgiving at Uncle Ron's house.
Emily and Elena shopping the day after Thanksgiving.

We thank the Lord for a good November staying busy with meetings and enjoying family at Thanksgiving. We have a busy December and are looking forward to Christmas in Illinois and New Years in A2.

Sanderlin Update

Well, we have travelled a lot of miles since the last update. We are so thankful for safety from the Lord especially with all the deer running around.

We had a tremendous missions conference in Toloedo, Ohio, with promise of support from this church, Hope Baptist.

We had a meeting in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, where we met a number of new friends.

We checked in with our sending church in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and I was able to fly with Capt. Warinner in the Wings as Eagles newly acquired Cessna 172. He showed me a few things that I had never experienced before, and I counted it an honor to be able to fly with someone with so many flight hours.

We had a meeting near Milwaukee cancelled (hopefully just postponed) and so we were able to attend the entire missions confernce in Napoleon, Michigan.

We will be heading for Falls Baptist in Menemonee Falls for their conference starting this Saturday.

R&R at the Farm

We had a great time to just enjoy family and the farm in Illinois for a few days after such a busy month. Jessica and the kids came down for a few days after we got there.

Charlotte, Michigan Missions Conference

We had a wonderful time a Calvary Baptist in Charlotte, Michigan. We were there from a Wednesday through Sunday a few weeks ago. They were a very friendly church as we were at a different house for almost every meal. We even got to go flying with a man from the church in his plane.

North Carolina

Our whirlwind trip to North Carolina is over. We had a wonderful time with friends and churches. We updated a church in New Bern Sunday morning and presented our work at another church in Kinston a half hour away on Sunday night. I did some instrument flying with Jack Hunt again, and Abby and Elena had a great time with his wife Jonnie. We made it from Kinston (eastern NC) to Ypsilanti in about 15 hours. What a day! Elena did wonderful on the long trip back. Thanks for praying!

Michigan Travels Continue

We just finished our third missions conference in Michigan in a few weeks. This one was in Central Lake in northwest Michigan...NE of Traverse City and SW of Macinac. Why it is still so warm up north I don't know, but it was a very beautiful drive. The conference was a blessing to us as we heard a preacher from Bearing Precious Seed in Ohio give the messages. Bible Baptist Church is in a small town but is a vibrant growing church. Thanks to Pastor Tharp and the church for a wonderful conference.

We are briefly in North Carolina (pictures and events to come) and will return to Michigan again for another missions conference next week. We thank the Lord for safety in travel. Thank you for praying for us!