Two weeks to our return to the field!

Dear friends,
Happy New Year! We are two short weeks away from our return to Brazil. It seems like it has been a long time since our arrival here in the US, and the time has come to return to the field. We appreciate your prayers as we have a couple of last minute meetings, and a lot of packing and logistical details to work through. We need to sell our car here (a 2005 Toyota Corolla if you are interested!), get Sarah settled back into her classes at PBU, pack for our trip (a challenge, since I have accumulated a few more books over the last 18 months!), and then, upon our arrival in São Paulo, we will need to quickly locate and purchase a reliable car. One church has helped us tremendously by giving a special gift for our plane tickets, within $1.50 of the price we finally paid for a direct flight from Newark to São Paulo. Another church had a "special project" to help us buy a new car, and collected $5,000! We believe that if we can get a market price for our car we will be able to get a good late model car when we get back to Brazil. Many new individual supporters, a Sunday School faith promise, and several increases from our churches will have our support at near 100% by the time of our departure, praise God for this miracle (we were at 78% just a few months ago)! Our biggest challenge will be leaving Sarah here to continue her studies at College while we are 5.000 miles away. We appreciate your prayers for her and for us as we take this big step as a family.
your missionary,
Steve Nash