Happy New Year!!!

Hello to all of our dear friends and family,
Well, it's our first year married and we are already off a little on the Christmas card sending ,so maybe we will just start a tradition of New Year’s updates and say that was our plan all along… Happy New Year!!
DUM DUM DUMDUM, May 24th Travis and Kelsey's paths joined together PERMANENTLY, yippee!!! Yep we tied the knot, and the seven months since then have been amazing. After the wedding we enjoyed a honeymoon in Honduras and were back in the states for three days of crazy packing for the year ahead. We headed to Entebbe, Uganda and set up our first little house.
Travis has been working with Air-Serv Limited in Uganda faithfully for the last seven months. However, after a change in the company's management, we felt the Lord calling us to resign from Air Serv. This meant surrendering the security of a paying job, but what can you do when the master calls but follow? We gave a three month notice to Air Serv at the beginning of October and started praying. After a month of seeking direction from the Lord, and through a series of truly divine events; God led us to volunteer for a short term position with AIM Air right here in Entebbe. AIM Air is the aviation branch of Africa Inland Mission. It is composed of pilots and mechanics from various mission organizations such as SIL, SIM, IMB, AIM, and Samaritan's Purse. AIM has asked us to fill in for a pilot who has gone on home assignment, and we will tentatively be serving with them January through the end of March. We are now living in the AIM Air pilot's house who is on furlough. Kelsey will also be working in the AIM Air office doing administrative work. We are still in prayer at this time asking the Lord for further guidance as to where he wants us to be after our time of serving with AIM is up. Please pray with us that God will reveal where he can best use us.
Other than flying, we have enjoyed a variety of opportunities to serve, and to experience Uganda. Kelsey started two dance classes, which have been a thrill for her to teach. Most of her students are daughters of missionaries living in the area. They put on a fabulous Christmas praise concert that helped start the Christmas season thinking of the wonderful gift of Christ. We have also been very involved in a local fellowship called Entebbe International Fellowship, where we have had the opportunity to serve through leading worship. The past seven months in Uganda have been amazing, and we have shared some very unique experiences that we will cherish for a lifetime. We survived rafting the Nile; were able to visit Kurmuk, Sudan where Travis spent a year working with Samaritans Purse in 2003; and we were able to accompany some friends to their mission base on a group of Islands in Lake Victoria (Where Travis caught a 30 lb Nile Perch). We continually marvel at the array of wildlife and plants in this lush fertile country of Uganda, which the British called, "The Pearl of Africa." Recently, we just got back from a week of travelling with some friends in western Uganda. Besides the joy of bouncing along on bad roads, we were able to hike in the highest mountain range in Africa, go trekking for chimps (AWESOME), and take a launch trip along a channel full of crocks, hippos, elephants, buffalo, and more.
Although we have stayed busy and have had so many unforgettable experiences while in Uganda, we still have missed the comfort of friends and family back home. However, God, in his wisdom ,blessed us with a visit from Kelsey's parents back in the middle of September, and tomorrow we will again be blessed with the arrival of Travis's parents. Of course both parents, in their wisdom, have brought many "American Goodies" for us…
In the past year we feel that God has truly blessed us beyond measure. In Proverbs 16:9 it says, "A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps" (NKJV). Looking back on the last year it is amazing to see how God has directed our steps. We feel so humbled and privileged to follow such an Awesome God. May he bless you all in this coming year!

With Love,
Travis & Kelsey

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