John and Anna Weeks YOUR link to tribal missions 
Thanks so much for your prayers this past week as we drove out to California from Belleville, Illinois. We arrived safely Friday morning. We left Illinois Monday evening driving through the night and arriving in Denver, Colorado around noon Tuesday and after 880 miles! We were able to check in early to the motel and take advantage of the nice facilities including indoor swimming pool and fitness. After a good night’s sleep, we drove 530 miles to Salt Lake City where we enjoyed another restful night at a motel. 
We slept in and after breakfast headed west again leaving around 10 a.m. The kids all enjoyed running around at the Bonneville Salt flats and taking in the “lunar landscape.” We arrived in Reno, Nevada around 7 p.m. and enjoyed our “last supper” before heading up towards Donner Summit. We hit snow at around 5,000 feet elevation and were told that all vehicles needed chains to get over the summit. We had to turn back and buy chains at a local gas station (probably ripped off) and after chaining up we made another assault on the mountain! It took us around 2 hours to get up and over the 7900 foot summit and after taking the chains off, everybody bedded down for the night while I drove on. We had to bypass the shortest route on Highway 20 as it was covered in snow and no vehicles were heading that way, however part way down the Sierra’s we found a small road that took us back to Highway 20 at Grass Valley. We drove through the night meeting hardly any other cars and after I rested for an hour around Richardson’s Grove on Highway 101 we drove on arriving around 8 a.m. at “Grandmother’s house in the woods.”
It was nice being in our home church this morning after 2 months in the Midwest. Our youth pastor Kiyle Decker is still preaching as our church looks for a new pastor. Please pray for the right man to step in as full-time pastor in the Lord’s timing. This afternoon Anna and the kids are all sorting out in the cold game room while I rest and watch football. I will be speaking to the AWANA kids next week and that is my only scheduled speaking before we leave for Indonesia again January 6th.
An answer to prayer is that the kids’ passports all arrived safely at my mom’s house. Please pray that their old passports and original birth certificates arrive soon as we need them for reentry into Indonesia in January.
Thanks again for your prayers and we wish you all a Happy Holiday Season,
In this work together,
John, Anna, KT, Grace, Paula and Kurt
