Karl & Liesl Kranich

Anja and I were eating breakfast together yesterday.  She asked what I was going to do today, and I said that I was going to some training on how to talk to people about Jesus.
“Why do you need that?” she asked.
“Sometimes people have hard questions”, I answered.
“Here’s how you do it”, she said.  “Is God real?  Yes.  There you go.”

We’ve got so much going on and are happy to say that God is pulling the details of our lives together better than we could have imagined.  There’s so much to say thank you for, from getting a contract on our FL house in 5 weeks (and having God “move a mountain”  that would have ended the deal), to our Indiana house being well on the way to completion to our support needs being down to only $155 a month left out of $1200! We will be leaving Orlando in the beginning of June and will be Indianans by mid month!   Just pray for us that we would keep God as our focus and not all the flurry of activity leaving brings.

Once again we’ve been getting incredible emails to pray and praise God for and this one was particularly good.  We met Rasool when we were in the office a few months ago.  He works with The Impact Movement, a partner ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ that is reaching out to the African American community.  We hope you will be as encouraged to pray and praise with us after hearing this story!

Thanks so much for your prayers for us while on the road. God answered them big time.

The scenario was more challenging than I imagined. The debauchery and sin that filled the streets were unlike anything I’d seen in person. It was so raunchy on the street we couldn’t even bring Ire’Ana (our 10-year old daughter) outside the hotel. But in the midst of darkness God moved.

Not only did we get to do both sets for an hour at the times we were told, God gave us favor with the hip-hop promoter, Ali, who had called me about us having 20 minutes to perform. He was cordial, and accommodating the whole time! He even told people to check out our concert!

We were supposed to go on @ 7:30p. It started raining @ 5pm. They thought about canceling the night’s concerts. They decided to wait it out. It stopped. We went on and saw lightning all around us, winds picking up - but no rain! It was like that the whole concert! By the end of the set Ali’s crew of hip-hop deejays were all on their feet clapping to our songs! Right after we were done and had put half the stuff in the trailer, rain came down hard and fast! Amazing!

Totals from both concerts:
83 comment cards collected
19 decisions to receive Christ
12 interested in talking to someone
5 led to Christ after outreach concert

The next evening, Ali called me back asking if we might be available to do a concert in June in Alabama where he’s from! We can’t do it b/c of schedule, but look @ that turn around.

We are truly grateful for all that occurred. Thanks again,
Rasool

Thanks for praying for Rasool and his band and the people they are able to reach.  God bless!

Thank you all so much for praying for our house sale situation.  We just found out that the county announced this afternoon that the previous rules (that our buyers were depending on) will be extended until May 1.  The contract is still good!

Praise God!! 

(Keep praying that nothing else goes wrong  )

We just found out that the contract that we signed to sell our house will probably be made invalid by some changes that the county just made to the down payment assistance program that our buyers are trying to use.

Please pray with us that either the county would relax these restrictions, or that we could find another buyer soon.  Most of all, that we would be able to trust God with this.

Many of you have been praying that we would be able to sell our house in Orlando–God has answered!  This weekend a contract was signed, and we look forward to closing on June 6.  The timing is great for us, since we’re hoping that our new house in Indiana will be done in early June.  We would certainly appreciate your continued prayers for the selling, building, and moving processes.  We’ve never done anything like this!

We also wanted to let you know about a bunch of things that we’ve been adding to our web site.  On the list of links to the right, we’ve added new sections of resources about umbilical cord blood donation and dealing with infertility and loss.  Up top (and on the “Pages” list), you’ll see a new link to a page about Keynote that includes a bunch of videos.  We’ve also updated the “Family Photos” — you can even watch our house being built by clicking on the “Matterhorn Drive” set.  Feel free to check out anything you’re interested in.