Things Are Moving

Wow!  Things are really moving along as we prepare to move to Guatemala in January 2011.

We received Brianna's birth certificate in the mail last week!  This was a true blessing to our family, and a must for us to be foreign missionaries.  Today, I went and found out what all we have to do in order to change her social security card.  This should only take us about 6 days to get complete and get her new card to us.  We will then work on getting Brayden and Brianna's passports.

We visited our first church, BridgePoint in Pinson, this past Sunday.  Brianna was sick with a fever.  So her and Kim did not get to make it.  We have Sixth Ave. Church of God in Decatur lined up for January 31st, Parkview in Florence for February 14th, and Rock Creek Church of God in Bessemer on February 21st.

We are now at 18.2% of the needed $30k annually!

We recently partnered with One Way Ministries out of Alabaster, Al.  They will be assisting us with administration, ministry needs/concerns, accountability, and more.  All checks will now go directly to One Way Ministries with writing Lopez Missions on the memo line.  We will receive the entire funds and an update of people giving through them.  They will take care of sending end of the year statements.  One Way Ministries address is: 105 Silver Leaf Lane, Alabaster, Al. 35007.  We will assist them by housing and leading short-term teams alongside Greg and Kathy Brown (missionaries to Guatemala) in Guatemala and Arizona.  Our home church of Fairview will continue to be accountability partners also.  We are in the process of establishing a missions board with Fairview that will see all of our finances in and out, assist us in the process of moving to another country, be a second person to report ministry to, etc.

February 28th Danny will be leaving for Guatemala.  He will be doing language school at Don Pedro de Alvarado Spanish School in Antigua March 1st - March 13th.  March 14th - 21st he will join a missions team from One Way Ministries in Guatemala City.  On the tail-end of the trip Danny, JT (OWM), and possibly Greg Brown will be visiting a piece of property located between Santiago and San Pedro (close to Lake Atitlan).  This property is owned by Amigos, Inc. and may be used in the future for One Way Ministries to house teams and do other ministry related work.

Please continue to keep our family and this new ministry in your prayers.