Okay, so it's not brand new...it's a 2000 Chrysler Grand Voyager yet it's brand new to us! Niall & Tawnya McSheffrey are missionaries with JV and were living in Prague for about 10 years, then moved to Croatia a couple years ago to start ministries there and then the Lord took them back to the states this summer. They needed to sell their minivan and Josh Patty thought of us.We've been saving up for one for quite a while but when we bought the house, we had to put that money toward renovating things here and decided we would just have to wait for the van.
Then when we were moving out of the other house, the new renter asked us about selling our ministry van. He offered 1500 Euros for it and Joel took him up on it. Although, he hasn't actually bought it yet...so we'll see.About a week later, Josh told Joel about the McSheffrey's van and suggested Joel look at it. Joel thought it was great. It has about 160,000 miles on it, so it's pretty used, but for us it's great. So Joel emailed Niall and told him we had 1500 Euros to offer and he wrote back saying he would sell it to us for $4000 and we could pay him over the next year. (Which he could easily get $7 or 8000 for it.)
Well. Joel is still hoping that man will buy the van, if not he has it listed on the Slovenian internet for sale and we hope to sell it to someone. In the meantime Joel wrote a couple supporters asking if they would like to donate some money for it and one couple wrote saying that they were going to mail a check to JV for $3000. Joel had asked for $2500 and they said they wanted to give $500 more for an oil change, insurance and a tune-up. Amazing, isn't it?!
Just one more thing to be grateful to the Lord for!
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You know, it is amazing, but it's also just like our God! What a praise! Now we can visit and have somewhere to ride - I was afaid we'd have to ride on top or in the trunk!
Ha! Ha! We could still fit 4 adults into the little green car, but once that baby boy arrives...only three! Yay God for giving us this new gift!
BTW--when is your spring break??
The week right after Easter - I think it is the last week in March.
Thanks so much for the up-date. I hope you get your house done soon so you can live in it! I'm glad you're not having that problem here because it's been raining non-stop. What a blessing to have sunshine. We're VERY excited about the van too!!!
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