Australia

We have entered the world of blogging. We have created this blog to hopefully keep you, our family and friends, updated on our Australia plans. We will probably not update this very much in the next few months; but once we get to Australia, we will try to update this weekly...more if we are travelling.
For those who need a little bit of updating....Last October (07) R.T. and I went to a Family practice physician conference in Chicago. While there, R.T. was trying to avoid as many exhibiters as possible when he hastened past a booth that advertised a need for physicians overseas (this was the first prompting of the Holy Spirit). A couple of weeks later, I mentioned this to my parents to see what they thought about moving to Australia for a year - they moved to Missouri to be near us and have travelled with us on vacations - my parents were very excited about the prospect (Holy Spirit's working). Within a few days, that organization that R.T. had talked to happened to call us to follow up on the conference (Holy Spirit again). We were told about a town in Queensland that seemed to fit our families needs/desires, as well as, R.T.'s desire for a medical practice (notice the Holy Spirit's leading). We were offered a contract that far exceeded what we expected and they even emailed back the next day saying they would offer more than what we had said that we would accept (who does that except the Holy Spirit). The next step was for R.T. to talk to his partners about having a year off. They were encouraging, with one partner saying that he wanted to do the same thing (this was a big sign from the Holy Spirit). I could go on and on about the big and little ways that we feel God leading us to go to Australia.
Some have asked us if this is a missions opportunity. Our answer to this is YES! We feel that God uses us no matter what we are doing and where we are going. 14% of R.T's patients will be Aboriginal. This is a very tough group of people to witness to. Praise God that He has called us to the Aboriginals but also to the people who live in Kingaroy.
Please pray with us as we prepare for our move. Pray that God will work out the details of what to do with our house and cars...and kitty cat. Pray that God will sell our house in Willow - this is the one contingency that will keep us in the states. Pray most of all for those that we are going to be able to share God's love with.