As we said goodbye to all our friends and family we soon realized we had a 22hr trip to the other side of the world ahead of us. Hunter's first flight was 14hrs straight and he just about slept the entire way. We then had a short connecting flight from Auckland to Christchurch and it wasn't too bad either. Lindsey and I have never experienced so much grace in our travels, even the staff at LAX were nice, helping us carry our 5 checked bags and 6 carryon's with a stroller... (If you ever come to New Zealand, I strongly recommend flying with Air New Zealand, it was by far the nicest aircraft and crew we've ever experienced.)
We are staying in a small town called Oxford for a few days connecting with the YWAM base and leaders here. We desire to establish relationships with the leaders here as they have been extremely generous truly blessing YWAM Queenstown. We soon will head down to our new home about 6 hrs south in Queenstown.
We have a great story regarding the Lords provision with an apartment in Queenstown and should know for sure if we got the place by the 16th of Sept. (We will share the details shortly)
Ministry in Q-town starts for us this next week. We hope to build connections, serve the local church and community. Please pray for us as we pretty much need to start from ground zero.
God is so good and we are so blessed to have a team praying for us and supporting us, Thank you!
Prayer Points:
* Shipment: we shipped our household items such as baby clothes and necessities, kitchen appliances, blankets and winter jackets on pallets in a container, they're not expected to get here for another two months! Pray that the shipping company would send our stuff soon as the communication has been lacking and the 6 weeks it was supposed to take is now looking like 3 months.
* Continual Safety: Driving on the left side of the road is hilarious... We love it, but it dose make it a little more dangerous when your not used to it. Now that we have a baby everything seems scarer. We head down south in a couple of days.
* Spiritual Atmosphere: We hear Queenstown is a very transient locating causing it to be spiritually heavy and difficult... it is called the city that never sleeps. We need prayer for connections and consistence relationships.
* Family: We already miss our immediate families and Church family, we desire to make new friends here to become our brothers and sisters in the Lord.
* The local Ministry: Prayer for connections, Servant hearts, and being led by the Holy Spirit. We will be starting the first DTS in January and need to make some major headway with the community before then.
Blessings,
The Boltons
