Training Time/End of Summer Update

Hello all! Since our last post we have traveled to Michigan, Tennessee, North Carolina, and unloaded all of our belongings in Jessica's parent's basement in Charleston, West Virginia. Thanks Mom & Dad!  This past Tuesday, we arrived at our 2-month missionary training and have been overwhelmed with new faces, information, and assignments. But God is good and we feel greatly privileged to be around so many wonderful people going out to spread the glorious gospel all over the globe! Here are a few photographic highlights from the last few weeks:

This picture was taken in Muskegon, MI (at Wendy's, actually), near Cameron's grandparent's home. It was really great seeing everyone!

 While in Tennessee, we were able to visit Cameron's parents, sister, brother and sister-in-law, and our little nephew Hank. The first picture was taken at the Dixie Stampede dinner show in Pigeon Forge and the second is on a walking bridge in downtown Chattanooga.

On July 15, our home church in Wake Forest, NC (North Wake) held a commissioning service for us. It was very encouraging!

The next Sunday, Jessica's home church in WV (FBC Nitro) commissioned us, as well. Here we are with the Pastor David and his wife Jeannie. 

Thank you so much for your prayers during our whirlwind summer. We are so excited to be a part of God's mission to redeem the nations, and for the next couple of months we will get to learn more about what it means to be Christ's ambassadors in Bucharest, Romania. For the most part, the next two months will be filled with classes about living on the mission field, staying near to God through cultural transitions, spiritual warfare, etc. We will also be doing worldview studies on the Romanian people and culture and begin thinking about what sort of tools we will need to bring the light of the gospel to the spiritual darkness of Bucharest.

We will be typing out our prayer email update list soon, so if you do not receive an email in the next few weeks or you want to be added to our list, please let us know through facebook or email Cameron at cameron_armstrong@ymail.com.

In Deuteronomy 31, Moses encouraged Joshua by reminding him the Lord would be with him as he went out into a new land with new responsibilities. As we begin these next two months of rigorous study prior to our departure, we are encouraged to remember the same.

Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it. It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you;   he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.” -Deuteronomy 31:7-8