Don't you love how God works things out and you don't even figure it out until later?  That's our plane ticket story....
Once upon a time, as the time for the Kona and Beyond Adventure drew nearer, the Timms decided to purchase plane tickets.  It WAS the only way to get to where they were going, so that part was a no-brainer.
What became a challenge was the "when-ness" of the decision.  They decided to watch and wait as God would surely bring the ticket prices down to help them out.  A "plane ticket miracle" was the plan of action!  Alas, the "plane ticket miracle" seemed to elude them as ticket prices kept rising and rising.  Being the amazing people of faith that they are, the Timms panicked and decided to get their tickets before they had to sell Jesse's guitar to pay for them.  The Timms have special friends who had volunteered to use their Alaska Airline visa card to purchase tickets for them because there was a companion fare deal with each regular flight purchased.  All the Timms had to do was get a check in the mail after the purchase.  Great!  A quick look at the website, an even quicker call to the special friends, and a few minutes later....whew!  tickets purchased!
Bummer, you may be thinking, no "plane ticket miracle."  God left them in the lurch.  Not a good way to start a five month stint in a whole new adventure.  I'm a little worried for what's in store for this naive and trusting family.
But, wait!  Here's the fun part!  As I was writing the check to cover the tickets it came to me.  In my head, a couple of months ago while figuring out the YWAM budget, I had written down $500/person for plane fare.  In actuality, in real time in the real world of numbers and such, the tickets were $821.  BUT as I wrote the check to send to our friends I noticed something...the $1966 check looked an awful lot like $500/person/ticket!  Yep, God came through with the "plane ticket miracle" in a unique way.  The little budget I had in my mind was real! No matter what the real world looked like, God had created a way for us to get our tickets at the "right" price! He's so good!
(I know what you're thinking...too bad she didn't budget $200/person in her head those few months ago!) :)
Aloha and mahalo for praying for us!

Here we are!  Can you find the Crossroads wannabe?  Look to the trees!  Thanks, David, for some "Where's Waldo?" fun.  :)

Our first blog!  How exciting, especially if you know us very well...technology and all...
First let me explain our title, "Our Season of Singing."  We found a great thought in Song of Solomon chapter two verses eleven and twelve.  
           "See!  The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
           Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come."
We thought this was a great description of how we're feeling as we begin our Crossroads DTS adventure.  We are expecting some great stuff from the Lord for ALL of us!  We are ready to enjoy a "season of singing" now that winter is coming to a close.  God has been so good to us.  We can't wait to see what's in store for the next few months!  
For particulars, we leave April 5 heading to Kona for twelve weeks for our school phase and then to parts as yet unknown for eight weeks for our outreach phase.  We'll return August 24.  
Excitement, nervousness, overwhelming expectation...all describe how most of us are feeling right now.  We're trying to get our ducks in a row so to speak.  Jesse will be here holding down the fort while we're pining away for him in Hawaii.  Good thing there are beaches and warm sunshine to help in that department! :)
Our goal is to post as often as we can.  For now it will be pretty sporadic as we're not there yet, but we do have things to share about how plans are going and all.  I'm hoping to get everyone in on the action in posting, so look forward to reports from Jay, Luke, Meng Juan, as well as me.  Should be fun! 
  Please begin/continue to pray for us!  You are the backbone of our journey! Bless you!
Aloha...for now.  Susie