Status Update

Dear Family and Friends,

Thank you all for your generous gifts of money, wisdom, love and support. Kelly and I are very excited to go and feel encouraged and confirmed in this call. But, there is much sadness too at leaving behind a wonderful community that has surrounded us for so long. God is good all the time though and we are eagerly looking forward to our training in Colorado and our time in the Dominican Republic. We wanted to give you a brief update on where we're at and what our timeline looks like from here out. Our next step will be to spend some time over in Silverdale, WA getting to know the systems that support COTN's missionaries. We will spend about 4 days at COTN's headquarters in Silverdale beginning Sept. 3rd (Labor Day) before leaving for Colorado Springs, CO on Sept. 7th. We expect the drive to take us about 24 hours. On Sept. 10th we begin 5 weeks of cross-cultural sensitivity and language acquisition training. Following that, we will spend about a week in the Chicago area visiting with my parents and my sister Katie before flying from Chicago to Santo Domingo. Once there, we will begin about 5 weeks of language training before heading to our site in Barahona. So, after all of that prep, we expect to hit Barahona sometime in early to mid December! Whew!

Currently we have raised $10,700 of the $13,000 that we needed upfront and we have commitments for $1600 of the $2500 that we need each month. Praise God! We have truly been humbled by your generosity and God's provision. If you have committed to giving monthly or have committed a one-time gift that you have not yet given, please plan to begin those gifts by Sept. 1st. You will receive a receipt from COTN after each gift that will have a detachable portion that you can mail in with your next month's check if you are not giving online. On our blog ( www.skhampton.blogspot.com) there are directions for setting up automatic withdrawal and the address to which you are to send your checks if you are not giving online. You can find that information under the Support/Donations link in the Table of Contents. Thank you again for your generosity. Kelly and I have been deeply blessed by you.

One other piece of information is that you can now subscribe to our blog. Basically what that means is that once you register your email address, you will receive an email each time we post something new. To register, simply visit our blog ( www.skhampton.blogspot.com) and scroll down through the Table of Contents until you see the heading "Stay In Touch". Below that heading is a place for you to enter your email address. Once you have done so, it will take you to a third party screen where you will confirm that you really want to subscribe and then you will receive a confirmation email. Once you have activated the link in the confirmation email, you will begin receiving alerts when our blog is updated.

Please don't hesitate to email or call either of us if you have questions or if you just want to say hi!

In Christ,
Scott and Kelly Hampton

Scott: 206.920.7504 m.scott.hampton@gmail.com
Kelly: 206.930.6159 kcruze@hotmail.com